Tectors and Nados

All children are sensitive little souls. Sarah is afraid of loud noises amongst other things. Sarah's middle name is Therese (after St. Therese, the little flower). Sarah could live on marshmellows and is very much a gentle little soul, very much like a butterfly.

Once our smoke detectors were low on batteries and beeped periodically, of course at 2 am. We have ours interconnected so if one goes off they all go off. They would announce, "Low battery." Sarah recalls the 'terrifying' incident every now and then and says the 'tectors' said "Beep! I need a battery!" When she was invited into our neighbors house she stopped suddenly at there front door for there as one of those montstrous 'tectors' inside their living room facing their front door. Sarah would have none of that.

A month ago the morning news reported possible storms for the afternoon with a slight chance of severe weather, with an even slighter chance of isolated tornados. Later when the kids had come home from school and wanted to play outside, Sarah would not let them because we were going to get nados.

OK now my point. I've always wanted to write a nice little childrens' book that deals with stuff that is scary for kids and link it to faith in Jesus and how we all have guardian angels to protect us and call the book Tectors and Nados.

The picture above is of Sarah at our local Childrens' Museum. The look on her face is as they say, priceless.