So Stinkin' Tired

Yesterday was a busy day with a field trip with Andrew's Kindergarten class for me. Shopping for the food for the Father/Son campout for Jason. Topped off with a 7pm t-ball game and off to our respective fun for the night. Campout for the boys, and a late movie night and food for Leah and I with the young women.

So after about and hour at the yw party another yw shows up and says that there are cops all over and a helicopter with a spotlight over her house. This is about 2 miles from our party. Apparently there was an "armed suspect on foot who had evaded the police at a traffic stop" or at least that is what they said over a loud speaker. About an hour after that I decided to go the long way home and trick myself into falling asleep.

I am seriously a fraidy cat. I live a good inconvenient 6 or 7 miles from the location of the incident. Like the crazy was going to show up at my house. But just to be sure I locked up tight, turned on all the lights, and made Leah sleep with me. I watched the news and searched the internet desperate for some more info. NOTHING!!

That's the part that was most frustrating. I could see the helicopter from my deck and knew that they were still looking. So by 12:30am. I don't think I can hear the helicopter anymore so I try to sleep. Yeah, I'll save you further details by saying that I was up every hour just double checking things and thinking of ways that I was going to protect me and Leah if this said "armed suspect" hiked up to my house and broke in. How come I can't be rational and just sleep at times like this?

I'm up this morning and frustrated that I let my fears dictate my night of sleep. I have been watching the news and searching again, only to hear a 10 second blurp about how there was a traffic stop and the man tried to evade the cop after crashing. They called him a parolee and never mentioned anything about him being armed. They never found him but eventually called off the search.

Boo!!