Ever "misplaced" your child?

Up until last week I could proudly say "Not me"! Well, guess what? ME (and mammy; had to throw that in there for good measure) It's the day before I run a 5k for the 1st time with a knee that has been less than cooperative, so I'm more than nervous about finishing it and I decide I need a new shirt to wear. "Mammy, feel like running some errands with Ky and me?" Sure she says and I bet she wishes now she stayed home to catch Days of Our Lives! Dick's sporting goods at the Mall, huge store, mall and parking lot entrance and we are poking around. Kyle USUALLY stays close and has never been the kind of kid to wonder or bolt so of course I have my eye on him while we are walking through clothing racks. I lost site of him in the time it takes to look down at your radio station in the car and then back up at the road. THIS IS NOT AN EXAGGERATION "Ky, Kyle, K...y..l..e" Where the heck did he go as I assuming I'll spot him any second now because, come on, how far could he have gotten in 2SECONDS!!!! "KYLE, KYLLLLLLEEEE" my steps are much faster and its been around 15 seconds at this point...Mammy is on the search as well and we both head in different directions...her towards the mall entrance and me towards the parking lot. At this point around 30 seconds or so PURE PANIC sets in...I've had panic attacks for quite a bit of my life, but I have NEVER felt like this. You know how people say sometimes that your life flashes before your eyes? I had no idea someone brain to conjure up so many scenarios in such a short amount of time. I pictured him being dragged in the parking lot with a stranger (he is VERY trusting of people), his face on milk cartons, lost and alone, wandering into the mall into a sea of people and I am frantic. SCREAMING his name, yelling to Lulu who's also screaming for him "Do you see him, do you hear him" "KYLE ANSWER MOMMY, WHERE ARE YOU?" The few people around me who worked in the store DID NOTHING! NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING! I didn't have time to be pissed about it that moment, but ARE YOU KIDDING? I don't care if you think I'm a lunatic parent who should have been watching her kid better, but he's lost and you're going to continue to fold clothes? Anyway - after a VERY LONG 2 minutes I can hear him.....I hear his voice and it's like someone started my heart again. I rush to the sound of his voices yelling for him to keep calling me and he's playing golf. Yup, you read that correctly.....putting the fake green in Dick's Pro shop. Mammy and I were beyond crying...we had to catch our breath and be so thankful that none of those sickening thoughts..........ugh. "Kyle did you hear us, where were you?" "Were you scared" "No mama, I was right here, I wanted to play golf!" Oh the innocence! Then he tells me later on "Mama why did you get lost today in the store?" The single most frightening moment of my life. All I can think of is Adam Walsh and he was picked of by some psycho in the same scenario. Predators would have had a field day with us. I don't mock or criticise those who choose to put there children on leashes anymore. I plan to never feel that panic again.

Sunday - Fun Day

I just came up with that, pretty cool huh? Or..no...wait that was the Bangles that coined that phrase "I wish it were Sunday....cuz that's my fun day" Anywho, Roger Williams zoo was the destination and honestly...it's overrated! I've been to a couple of zoo's, as you know, and this one is all kinds of commercialized. They don't even have a lion, I mean come on, no lion?! And, they once had a polar bear and still advertise with it...but guess what? NO polar bear. It was a great day none the less because we were together, but next time we want to hang with some creatures of the wild we'll be spending $6 a person at Capron Park and savings lots of money not having to avoid every corner where they are selling crap. The butterfly exhibit was 1/2 as interesting as the one at Franklin park and they didn't even have blue morpho's, we know because Kyle asked the fella working the exhibit. It was beautiful day with the sun shining and we continued to enjoy ourselves once we arrived at home. The cousins were home next door, KK, Kallie and Dylan and Kyle can't get enough of them these days. We played outside and had a cookout under the garage during a rainshower. When the sun shown through after a 1/2 hour or so we got to see the most beautiful rainbow I've seen in years! There were two, one on top of the other and it was a complete 1/2 moon stretching from one side of the sky to the next. I'd bet there was a pot of gold at the end too! After enjoying the rainbow, we enjoyed the rain puddles. I took the kids over to the school and let them go wild in the puddles. It was so much fun, I felt like a kid again. Certainly was a fun day, "I don't hafta runday....just another manic Monday"

"ROY G BIV" anyone?

"KK, Kallie, Dylan and Kyle circa 2009 reliving the memories of Matt, Erin, Benny, Leo, Stevie and Kristie circa 1985 in the same 2 yards raisin' hell"

"so beautiful"


"we don't mess around, I say we don't mess around"

we found and jumped in every single puddle at the school across the street

"rrrrrrrrrrrribit"

"oh yeah, did I forget to mention the 2 exhibits that we didn't plan on at the zoo...where's waldo?"

"Momma and baby Kenya"