“Date” Night

Saturday night, the kids weren’t on their best behavior. We were going the rounds, I was counting down the minutes until I could snuggle up with my pillow and sleep, and then my phone rang.
It was my mom.
She wanted to know if grandma and grandpa could take the kids with them to Wal-Mart.

Fifteen minutes later, I was alone with my husband. The night was dark and stormy. Thunder rumbled in the distance. And what did we do?
We chased a giant dragon fly around the house that had flown in while we’d moved the kids’ car seats from our car to Mom’s.
Once we had it trapped, we sat close together and watched it throw itself against the walls of the plastic small animal carrier we’d put it in. Then my husband turned on my computer and googled “what do dragonflies eat?”
After a bit of studying, he caught a few moths and put them in with the dragonfly.
Again, we sat close together.
We fixated on the dragonfly. We watched it open and close it’s mouth, clean it’s face, flap it’s wings, land on it’s back and flail it’s teensy little legs…
We even named our giant dragonfly Kamakazi on account of it’s DIVE BOMBING in our kitchen just seconds prior to our catching it.
And before we knew it, the kids were home.

You have to understand that from head to end, this thing was about 7 to 8 inches long. HUGE.

We let him go the next morning. He didn’t eat any of the moths, and one of his wings had broken from trying so hard to get out.

We had a great time, and the kids loved seeing the dragonfly when they got home. The girl toted him around like a prize. The boy yelled at him.
“You hafta STOP flying else I HAFTA get MAD at you!” He said, pointing a little finger at Kamakazi.

I hope you’re spending your stormy evenings accordingly.

Comments

  1. That is one big dragonfly. And I can’t help but be jealous of grandparents that live close enough to grab the kids on their way to Wal-mart. Jeremy and I have been out of the house together without kids exactly one time in the last 3 months, and it took $13 just for the babysitter for 2 hours. Be so grateful that you have that; it is priceless!!

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