Angels in disguise

Now that it's nighttime, I'm able to reflect on this fairly stressful day. I woke up and got the kids and myself ready to go. The little boys got on their bus and Bryce decided to leave early for his bus. I wasn't sure where I was going to run and headed out of my driveway to the right ~ past Bryce's bus stop where he was waiting for the bus (first kid in line with no one else). As I ran by I asked him if he wanted to run with me. He caught up and we were running together. We arrived to his school ten minutes too early, so we decided to play at the park across the street from the school. Playing went great until the incident. I knew it was broken immediately and I felt overwhelmed with uncertainty about how we were going to get home. I could call someone to pick us up, but it would cost me more time to use a phone at the school (since I don't have a cell phone) and wait for someone to pick us up. I decided to run us home, but every time I hit a bump Halea would scream out because it hurt her. A woman was dropping her daughter off at school and I asked her if she could drive us home ~ I had never seen her before ~ and she was perfectly willing to do it. She was an angel.

I always run on an empty stomach and eat when I get home. I never got to eat and by 2:00 I was really hungry. I asked a nurse if I could go get something to eat and she sat with Halea so I could run to the cafeteria and get some food. She was an angel, too.

Since I didn't have a cell phone, I realized that I was not going to be able to call anyone to pick up my two little boys from their bus. A male nurse asked me if he could help with anything and I asked if there was a phone I could use. Angel. He brought me a phone that I could keep in the room with me. I called and called and called ~ not getting any responses. I finally called Ryan's school and explained the situation to a receptionist. She said she would try to track him down, but she wasn't sure if she would be able to. I called the boys schools and explained the situation to each of their receptionists. They agreed to not put the boys on their busses and keep them at school until I could pick them up. ANGELS~

Ryan ended up tracking me down at the ER and he drove from North Seattle to pick up the boys from their schools. He called his dad and he sat at our house for the next four hours so Ryan could go back to school. Another angel.

Had I gone left out of the driveway this morning I wouldn't have ended up at the park. But maybe we would have been hit by a car. If I hadn't had Bryce with me, Halea probably wouldn't have gone down the slide. But maybe Bryce would have been kidnapped. Had I waited ten minutes, the school would have been open. Who knows. I know all of these events unfolded just as they were supposed to. I had angels surrounding me today. It must be that I'm supposed to learn something from these angels.