We had a bit of a scare last night that seriously took 10 years off my life. It was like 12:15am and I was headed to bed. I went downstairs to turn off lights and locked the door that leads to the garage and went back upstairs. I don't usually check on the boys because their doors squeak, but for some reason, I did. I checked on Ty and he was sleeping soundly. I went into Zach and Drew's room and Drew wasn't in the bottom bunk. I thought, ok, he crawled up to Zach's bunk (I even thought how cute, I'll have to get the camera) but he wasn't there. I checked the closet, under the bed....went in the playroom, no Drew. Then I went and got Carl and told him Drew wasn't in his bed. He was like sure he is. When he saw that he wasn't, he ran from room to room upstairs while I flew downstairs...no Drew. All I could think about was the unlocked door and that little girl Madeline that was taken out of the hotel room on vacation...
I ran back upstairs and when I saw the look on Carl's face, it freaked me out. I seriously couldn't breathe. We started flipping on every light and looking in the washer and dryer, etc. Horrible. Zach was awake now and so was Ty because we were literally yelling Drew's name. I ran downstairs again to look for him and I heard Carl yell "I got him". I almost collapsed. I felt like I was gonna throw up. I ran upstairs and saw Carl had Drew so I went and got Ty who was screaming by this time. Then Carl and I switched. He put Ty back to bed while I just held onto Drew. Apparently he had crawled under his bed to find Zach's blue matchbox car and had climbed all the way in the corner and fell asleep. FREAKED ME OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I sat up in bed awhile and prayed. I didn't know how else to calm down. I thanked God that Drew was alright and I prayed that I wouldn't have nightmares!!!!
Everyone is safe and sound....but seriously a traumatizing 15 minutes!!!!
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3 comments:
Ok, seriously, I'm all freaked out now! I can't handle that kind of thing! So glad you found him.
Had a somewhat similar experience. When Tatem was 3, the day after Thanksgiving, Erin, Mom and I went shopping at Kohls in Indio. Tatem had been having a hard time behaving in the stroller and, since she'd been in it for hours, we let her out to walk a bit. Well, she got separated from us, and for about 2 minutes we couldn't find her. I had all kinds of horrible images running through my head of some freak picking her up and doing all kinds of bad things to her. I felt all the feelings you felt, the nausia, the fear, and the almost hysterical relief when we finally found her sitting a few aisles over playing with a toy. And, since I was 8 months pregnant, the emotions were 10x as strong as normal.
Takes a very strong person to be a parent, I tell ya!
I feel for you. I am so glad that Drew was okay. We lost Sammy for about 5 minutes at a store a couple weeks ago. That's how I felt, but definitely on a smaller scale. Every single possibility runs through your head. I'm seriously glad that things are okay, though.
HELLO!!!!! Why didn't I know you lost my Godson!You need to put a tracking device on the boys - we did! Just dress them in a dog suit take them to the vet and have them put one of those tracking chips. Never lose them again - great when they are teenagers!
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