Oh the afternoons. They can be so long and boring. Rachel came to me today. . ."Mom, I have nothing to do." Well, I am a quick thinker so I suggested she go see if our neighbor could play. About 20 minutes later the door bell rang. I opened it to find our little neighbor wanting to know if she could play at our house. I was confused. "I thought Rachel was at your house." No. Well, then, she must be here. I yelled throughout the house. In every room. "Please go home and make sure that Rachel isn't at your house." So, the little girl left and returned shortly affirming to me once again that Rachel was not at her house. Now I was starting to panic. My heart racing, I went outside and began to yell Rachel's name. No answer. Emily was in the bathtub, so I pulled her out, quickly dressed her, and said a prayer. Then I told Ben to start looking for his sister. Ben was only worried about his stomach. . . he wanted a sandwich. "She's lost!" I told him with less than kindness.
Now it just happens that the neighbor girls Father is a police officer. I saw his patrol car in the driveway, so I headed over there. I was ready to put in a missing child report. . . Rachel does not wander off around the neighborhood. If she wasn't at he neighbors and she wasn't in our yard then she was kidnapped. I was near tears when I got to my neighbors house. They opened the door and I said "I can't find Rachel."
They looked at me with a confused gaze and said, "She's here." Oh my gosh. I can't tell you the relief I felt. Even after I left and went home I had to sit down. I laughed and cried together. Apparently, Rachel arrived at there house before her friend was home from school so they invited her to come in and wait and watch Tinkerbell. Well, when the friend came home she didn't even go into the house. She just jumped out of the car and headed to our house. That explains why she didn't think Rachel was at her house. Whether not she actually went home to double check when I asked her to is unknown. All I do know is I never want to have that happen again. It was terrible. The worst ten minutes of my life. I gave all three of my kids huge hugs afterward.
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We were in Toys R Us last year when we lost Olivia. We looked everywhere and couldn't find her. They called a Code Adam. We finally found her in the front of the store oblivious to the problem she had caused. Afterward I heard a couple of employees talking. One said something about how she couldn't believe how irresponsible some people were to bring little kids out into the Christmas rush shopping. She said those kind of people deserve to lose their kids. We decided to be done shopping and went home. Feeling really good about ourselves.
Scott and I lost Jess at the outlet mall in Park City. She was only two and we were in some store and she disappeared. We looked everywhere and had everyone looking for her. Just when Scott was running to the exit to start checking cars and we were about to call the police. There our Jess was under the rake of sale clothes hiding. We learned a huge lesson that night. it scared us to death!
So SCARY! I am SO GLAD she is SAFE.
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