10 Responses to “to the woman at the fall festival”  

1. 1 reverendmother Oct 13th, 2007 at 3:14 pm

   I will let Mr. RM make an atoning comment about what HE was doing while this was going on!

2. 2 Kelley Oct 13th, 2007 at 3:43 pm

   Time completely stops when you have “lost a child”. Thank God for that woman and thank God that 99.99% of all humanity would do the same.
   I got lost, as a child, at a Billy Graham Crusade. I figure that is one reason why I became a Presbyterian and not a Baptist!

3. 3 jledmiston Oct 13th, 2007 at 3:52 pm

   My heart is racing just reading about this.

   My brother (who is now 47) was “gone” for over an hour at the National Zoo 42 years ago when our family was on vacation in DC. We still call the bench outside the Zoo Police Station “M’s Bench” because that’s where we found him sitting with the nice lady who’d bought him ice cream. M. was licking away. My mom and dad ran up and wept (mom) and fussed (dad) while also forgetting to thank nice lady and getting her name. I will never forget it.

   I’ve never lost my kids, but once found one. Thought I was holding the hand of TBC and when I looked down, it was a child I’d never seen before. (TBC was with my husband.)

   So glad M. is fine.

4. 4 StCasserole Oct 13th, 2007 at 6:42 pm

   Worst feeling in the world! So glad your little one is safe. 90 seconds is a LONG time.

5. 5 mibi52 Oct 13th, 2007 at 6:53 pm

   StoneMason was infamous for ALWAYS getting lost. The scariest experience was 45 minutes at DisneyWorld, which didn’t seem to have any sort of intercom or PA system. We just had to wander until we found him. We all cried. Thank God Miss M is okay, although you guys may have aged ten years in that 90 seond period…

6. 6 Beth Oct 13th, 2007 at 8:29 pm

   and you didn’t go into Labor???

7. 7 Songbird Oct 13th, 2007 at 8:44 pm

   So scary! And what a relief! Glad you’re all okay.

8. 8 1-4 Grace Oct 13th, 2007 at 8:45 pm

   So glad all is well. I don’t have children of my own, but have lost a child on a school field trip. It was in one of my first years of teaching.
   Totally thought he was dead in a ditch, decapitated….I watch way too much television.
   A teacher later comforted me by saying it is a right of passage for new teachers to loose a kid.
   Important part is finding them okay.
   Kelley—
   LOL! YOu are one of the few who can say they got “lost” at a BGC. Truly funny.

9. 9 Matthew Oct 13th, 2007 at 10:03 pm

   What was M doing? Was she scared? Some kids get lost and have the most wonderful time.

10. 10 reverendmother Oct 14th, 2007 at 10:01 am

    M had a couple of little tears on her cheeks but wasn’t actively crying when they came up. So I’m guessing she starting crying when she didn’t see me, then calmed down when the other mom (actually there were two) came to take care of her.

    But she must not have been crying that hard because I kept listening for her and couldn’t hear her. And given where all this took place I can’t imagine she got that far out of earshot.

    This all happened at the pumpkin patch, where it’s all families. I guess there could be crazies lurking but it’s about as wholesome a place as you might find. So I hadn’t quite gone to “someone has taken her,” more “she could wander somewhere and get hurt.” I was actually amazed at how much I didn’t panic, actually. It really was not very long.

    Now granted when we just had C, there were two of us watching her, but she also never wandered off that I can recall. I think that’s not as much a part of her temperament.

    In fact there was all this fun stuff to climb on there, and I kept thinking that it must be new stuff, but then I realized that M seeks that stuff out in a way that C never did. M is her own kid.

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