Counting my blessings tonight....

My son was in a car accident tonight. Things could have been alot worse, but he's ok. He had a friend with him and she is also ok. He hit a slippery patch in the road and spun out of control. Ended up flipped on the side facing the opposite direction after a few spins and going airborne. 

My boys are both in bed asleep and I'm sitting here bawling my eyes out thinking about how lucky I am. I have such great kids, I couldn't even imagine how I'd make it without them. They, along with their dad, are my whole life. I'm just so grateful for my family. I don't know what I'd do without them.

My hubby is working nights right now, so he had his truck, Zak had the Rainier and the Tracker is not useable right now because of a run in with a deer. So here I am without a vehicle when Zak comes in the door a few minutes after he left saying "Mom come here" and gave me a big hug while saying "Im sorry! I'm sorry! I rolled it, I'm so sorry" And I said "WHAT?!?!" It was all just so unreal. I wasn't even comprehending at first what he was saying. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks.

He was ok, his friend was ok. The vehicle didn't matter, the important thing was that the kids were ok.  We will manage things somehow, we always do. 

I called my mom and told her I needed her to come over, that Zak had rolled the Rainier. She came over as fast as she could. But before she got here our local police chief had come over and picked up Zak to take him back to the vehicle. I called her at home and told her I didn't have a vehicle to get up there. She was going to give us a ride, but I told her my mom was coming and she just took Zak. She said he needed to get back up there to the scene. So they left and as they were pulling away my mom showed up. Ty and I got in her truck and we headed to the scene. I about passed out when we got there and saw the Rainier. It was all just so unreal. I couldn't believe it was happening. The field the rainier was in is on top of the bluff and sloped down into a grove of trees. The Rainier stopped right at the top of the slope, a little farther and it would have slid down into the trees. From where we were it looked like the windshield was busted out. But it was just an illusion of the lights on the salty glass. I was so scared. I got out of mom's truck and walked over to the Rainier. I took a few pics of it on it's side. I almost got sick looking at it sitting there like that. My poor boy having to go through that!! 

I'm so glad my mom was able to come help us. I really don't know what I'd do without her. When everything was all over and done with and she was going to head back home I gave her a big hug and thanked her and said "I don't know what I'd do without my mommy!!!" 

Here are the pics I took of the Rainier on it's side in the field...

Walking back to the road...

When I got back to the road I took a pic of the Rainier...

When the tow truck brought it to the house we were finally able to see the side it was laying on. You can't see all the damage in the pics here, but there's some...

It still seems unreal. Like it didn't happen. I'll wake up in the morning and find out it was a bad dream and Zak is fine, had a great time at the company Xmas party he was going to and the Rainier is in the driveway ready to take us to work and school. So I guess I better get to bed... 

Count your blessing everyone, you never know what can happen in the blink of an eye.