I've just returned from a trip to Mexico. We stayed at a beautiful resort and had a wonderful time. Mostly, it was one of the best trips I've ever been on. I said "mostly". We left our four kids in a babysitter's care while we were away. One day, my 11 year old daughter called me, sobbing. The fact that she reached me at all was miraculous. The cell phone coverage where we were is almost non-existent, and certainly unreliable. I was in a gift shop when I took her call. She was crying and it was hard to hear her clearly, plus the call kept garbling. I heard her say, "We were all in the car and we were coming to a stop, only Rebekah (babysitter) didn't stop. (Garble garble). There was a really big truck coming (garble garble) just before it hit us." Then sobs. I hit the ground. I just went straight down to the ground outside the gift shop and my husband bent down and picked up the phone. I sat there with my head in my hands and cried. The part I missed hearing my daughter say was, "but it stopped just before it hit us." My husband is trying to get this through to me and now my daughter is hysterical because she realizes the misunderstanding and is even more upset. As it was, our babysitter was on a road that crosses a 50 MPH highway. She had a stopsign, but she didn't stop and didn't see the cement truck barreling down the road. My oldest daughter in the third seat started yelling, "Watch out! Truck! On your right! On your right!" Rebekah stopped the car right in the middle of the highway and the truck skimmed right across the front of our car, but didn't hit them. They said it was a matter of inches. I know if they had been hit by a 50mph cement truck, all my kids would be gone. I'm still trying to tell my brain it didn't hear what it thought it heard. I thought I lost them..........

I am so happy to be home, Happy Mother's Day.

P.S. I've been talking to my kids about the almost accident. My daughter (the one who called me) said when she saw the truck coming, she knew she was going to die and she kept thinking, "What are Mom and Dad going to do?"