Today I had a heart stopping ( well actually - heart racing - moment ) Brylie (5y) has just started coming home from school on the bus...When I looked on the school bus route the closest stop was about 3 minutes drive from our house so every wed, thurs, and fri I drive there to pick her up.
well yesterday the bus was late as the new bus driver was getting taught the route and as we were driving home we saw the bus emerge out of a street that is only 50 meters from our house!!!! OH WOW I thought, that is great, Brylie can get off there and I can walk down to get her...
So...today I talked to Brylie, telling her she was getting off a the next stop, NOT at the usual one. I talked to the bus driver and I thought that all would be hunky dory!!! Well it wasn't.
I picked up Elijah from preschool, parked the car and we all walked down to the stop. They were late...again...but I knew that would be as the new bus driver was still learning the route and it was his first day by himself...finally the bus arrived...the driver got out....(oh dear - not good ) and said "the kids (on the bus) said she got off at the other stop) HEART STOPPED....
We RAN up the hill to our house, I threw the kids in the car and drove like a crazy lady to the old bus get of point....SHE WASN"T THERE!!! Heart began pounding, where was she, did she start walking home on her own (shes never done that EVER before by herself) was she "stolen by a stranger". I drove home the way that I thought she might go if she walked, looking for home, stopped in at a park on the way to see if she got distracted (as she does) no she wasnt there.
I drove the rest of the way home trying to think, what on earth was I going to do, ring school, ring husband, ring POLICE???
Thank You God, I didn't have to do any of those (well I did call the hubby to let him know what happened)
5 meters away from our drive way I saw her....getting out of a car...of a fellow student from her school...This little girl gets off at the "other" stop and her mum had noticed that I wasnt there to pick up Brylie and after about 10 minutes offered to take her home.
I hugged her SO TIGHT, I remembered, even though she drives me mad with her behaviour at times I do love her dearly and my life would not be the same without her.
I am so thankful that God was watching over her and placed that other girl and her mum at the right place to care and look after her when I wasnt there.
We have now swapped numbers....not that this will happen every again!!!! (here's praying it doesn't) and I have asked Brylie about 20 times since we got home which bus stop she is getting off at now!!
That is scary as! I was at the doctors office once and left the kids to play in the play area while i went to front desk to check us in. I was got less than two minutes and it was in the same room just around a corner. I got back and only my daughter was there. I looked everywhere for my son, he wasnt in any of the doctors rooms, wasnt in the toilet, hadnt snuck past me to the car and i was really panicking! I went to tell the receptionist what had happened and he popped up from behind the slide. He had managed to crawl under it where there was a cavity but no entry points or windows etc. I grabbed him and gave him the biggest hug but i found it really hard to restrain my anger with myself that i had allowed him out of my sight.
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