October 8, 2009

Really does classify as the worst day of my entire life.

It started out as any normal, regular, fall, rainy, non-eventful day. I put the boys on the bus for the second time since we've moved...they are morning bus riders...but more about that later....

The horribleness started out when my FIL goes to pick my babies up from school to bring them here to me @ work. At 3:25pm they have been out of school for 15 mins and my FIL calls me and tells me that he has just been told thay my children are on a PM bus...home. WHAT?!?!?! THERE IS NO ONE AT HOME!!! WHY WOULD THEY BE ON A BUS!?!?!?!?!? They have never been on a PM bus..why today. He tells me that he is going to go to my house and try and catch the bus. I call the lady in the front office and she says "You told me they were bus riders, yes see I wrote it down here...bus riders ." Now I'm hollering "NO I DID NOT. I SPECIFICALLY TOLD YOU A.M. ONLY!!!!! NO ONE IS AT MY HOUSE. I WOULD NOT TELL YOU TO PUT MY 7 AND 5 YEAR OLD CHILDREN ON A BUS TO A HOUSE NO ONE IS AT!!!!!!"

(sidenote: she was enrolling 2 other families when she was enrolling us so now obviously that SMALL detail was overlooked. The reason they were even ON the bus is because due to this mistake the children were handed slips from the office in their classrooms tellling them to get on the bus...thinking I had institued the change, they obliged...Nemo reluctantly..Christian was just doing what he was told.)

She continues to insist that I am wrong about what was said and she is right repeating my address to me, and just going through a bunch of rambling nonsense. I tell her all of that is of no consequence now and she needs to find my children. NOW.

So she says she is going to call the bus company and see if they are still on the bus.

At this point I'm just pissed...a little freaked out but mostly upset because they are on the bus, she's going to call them and tell them to drop them off to my FIL at school when the route is done...inconveinent yes...but at least they would be with dad in at most a 1/2 hour.

It's now 3:40pm

She calls me back and tells me that the bus is scheduled to be on my street @ 3:25 and that they let my children off the bus.

And that's when sheer hysteria set in. THEY LET MY BABIES OFF THE BUS ON OUR BRAND NEW STREET AND NOW THEY ARE JUST OUT IN THE RAIN, COLD AND ALONE AND NO ONE IS THERE WITH THEM!!!!!

Every gut wrenching, horrible, terrible thought went through my head. I thought I was going to stop breathing.

Dad calls me and tells me that they are not anywhere to be seen on my street. He goes to my house looks in the backyard, in the windows...drives up and down the street..No Nehemiah...No Christian. My children are MISSING..they are not at school...they are not on the bus and they are not anywhere near my house!!!!

There are no words to describe what I was going through. I dialed Nicole and begged her to help me

..I was in complete and total PANIC!!! I was sobbing uncontrolably...Ezekiel grabbed my hands and prayed for his brothers to come home..I'm pretty sure Nicole was praying...those 15 mins are still a blur... I have never been so afraid in my entire life...I would LIVE WITH A CLOWN...everyday...after yesterday! I thought I was going to be on the 5 o'clock news pleading for my children to be returned to me!!!!!

Dad decides to circle our block again and sees two adorable little Westmoreland boys getting off of a bus and walking down the street....turns out they were still ON THE BUS even though I had been told they were let off. Brandon called me to tell me that dad had the children and that he would be by the store shortly with them. There ends the worst day of my life. So greatful the day ended the way it did...I surely do not know what I would have done if we couldn't find them. Thank you JESUS for my boys being safe.