We’ve gotten a lot of much-needed rain this week! On the way back from a day trip to Dallas for work, I was sitting in the back seat of the company car and watching the dark clouds through the window. My colleagues were chatting in the front seat, and I just tuned them out for a bit and watched the rain.

It was raining heavy, and the drops streaked across the window from side to side. It reminded me of a road trip game that Nathan and I used to play. We would pick a droplet of rain on one side of the window and watch it “race” the other drops to the edge of the door. Watching the raindrops like this is mesmerizing. If you’ve never tried it, you should! (Not while driving, of course … it’s a passenger game.) Sometimes the drops merge and become bigger, faster drops. Sometimes the wind hits it just right, and the drop splatters into smaller drops – bummer. I always enjoyed when the drop would drift into a thin stream of water left behind from another drop, because it would shoot super-fast through the channel like a slide, and that drop was sure to win the race!

I know that Nathan and I did our share of fighting and bickering in the car, much like the boys do now. It’s interesting to me, though, that the things I find myself remembering (without even trying – just memories that pop into my head) are silly little inconsequential games like raindrop races, moon chasing and I-spying license plates. I ache with longing for him.