Truly Thankful

I know that I have posted this more than once. But everytime I hear “what are you thankful for?” My mind reels back to this event. You will read “even four months later…” Now even three years and four months later this is the event that I say I am truly thankful for…still! It still scares me to think of the what ifs.

One thing that I am truly thankful for:

My children. My children are alive when they could have been so easily killed this past summer. Four months later I still think about it, I still get teary-eyed and I thank God that they are alive.

We had been out of town because my job took me to an event that the organization holds every year. At the same time my Dad was in the same town having open-heart surgery. My parents are raising two of my nieces. Since things with the surgery did not go as smooth as hoped I told my Mom that I would take the girls home with me. We pulled in the driveway about 10:30 pm and all the kids wanted to sleep in the camper. I said “No, lets wait until tomorrow night. We will bring in all the blankets and wash them so you have clean bedding.”

I have never told my kids that they could not sleep in the camper. I bought the camper from my parents and the only time I had it on the road is when we brought it the 300 miles from their house to ours. All work and no camping!! But we would set it up every summer and the kids had a playhouse during the day and they could crank up the tunes or just watch television out there.

Thank God for “Mother’s Intuition”, guidance, or whatever you want to call it. I am just so thankful that I said no.

We went to bed at midnight, were awaken by a storm at two am, looked out in the yard. The camper was on it’s top, wheels up. One of the beds was flat on the ground!! It so easily could have been devastating.

When I tell this story the first question that people ask is did you have insurance. I had if fully covered but I changed insurance companies and never thought about adding the camper to my new policy. So no I did not have it insured. But know what? It does not even matter. It never crossed my mind; oh I lost an asset. The only thing that went through my mind is “Thank God the kids were not in there.”

This one is scary to look at because it looks like a person hanging out of the door. It is not but I don’t remember what it was. We did not notice that until way after the fact ~ while we were looking at the photos.