Thursday

Wow, yesterday was CRAZY! Normal day as far as the kids going to school and Robert to work, but we had a full schedule for the evening, then an unexpected wrinkle made life come into perspective. As soon as the kids got home we started homework and snacks. Mema and Pa were passing through town and stopping by, we then were swinging by Josi's house to wish her a happy birthday and let the kids slide down her new slide a few times. Addison had a tball game and Asher's peewee game was immediately following. Just as we were getting ready to head out to Josi's, Asher tells me that a girl just crashed in our yard. I thought he meant a little girl on a bike, but he explained it was a lady in a car. So I hurried to check. Our across the street neighbor had put her baby in the car and then run into the house to get something (they were on their way to the hospital to get a few stitches for a cut over the baby's eye), the 2 yr. old little girl got out of her car seat and climbed into the front, she hit the gear shift in the middle and put the car into reverse, mom came out about this time and hurried to stop the car, she was knocked down and run over by the car, the car headed down the driveway, across the street, over the curb, over a big dirt hump (the boys like to ride their bikes/four wheelers over), just missed the telephone pole, and hit the old t'bird park next to our house (Robert hopes to work on this car with the boys when they get a little older, evidently it has some sort of good engine or something). The mom was bleeding on the back of her head and was in total shock, she was crying and in a lot of pain. The daddy went to get the baby and found all the doors were locked. I had him stay with the mom and call 911 and I went to be with the baby. She wasn't crying and the car was still running, so I knew she was ok. I talked to her through the window and finally she unlocked the door. About this time my parents drove up, then the ambulance. The little girl is fine and the mom is too. She had to get stitches in her head and has a fractured arm, but overall I think that is a pretty good ending to what could have been a horrible accident. God blessed us with so many things, just in the moments of the accident. Only minutes before Addison had been riding his bike....right there, right in the path the car took. Thank God the old car was there too, otherwise the car probably would have come through the house, into the room where Asher was. I don't know how many times I have wished that old car was not there, in the middle of the yard, looking so junky. And of course the injuries of the mother and baby could have been much, much worse. We went on to Josi's and then to the boys' games. But all of us were.....well, I really can't think of the right words. These sort of things really make you think though.