Her rules are really easy:
1. Grab the Pondering with a Purpose Badge (in her sidebar)
2. Look at the week's prompt
3. Post something on your blog that relates to the prompt - it can be a story, a poem, a picture -- anything you want it to be.
4. Go back here and add the URL from your post to the linky list on Brenda's.
5. Go check out the other bloggers who have added their links to the list.
6. AND most of all.... Have fun!
So this week the subject is: Close Calls
So I read Brenda's post today and this is the first thing that came to my mind:
Way back (at least 20 years ago) before my parents moved back to VA, my mother decided she wanted to go home (VA) for a visit. My dad could not take off so me and my husband (now the ex) said we would drive her down. We were in a 1984 Blazer - I guess that makes it closer to 30 years ago - with both my kids in car-seats in the back with my mother. It was in the middle of the winter and it there was what we thought was a light mist coming down. Everything was fine until we got close to an exit and the semi ahead of us went to change lanes. The "mist" was freezing and the semi jack knifed. It ended up completely sideways. A pickup truck in another lane hit it. Jery (the ex) somehow got the Blazer stopped - literally 2 inches from the cab of the semi. The semi driver was ok, and thankfully so was the pickup driver, although the pickup itself was totaled. Not a scratch on my babies. I will always thank God that Jery was driving and not me because I honestly don't know how he managed to get stopped. All I know is we ended up with 2 wheels off of the pavement - he said he did that to get traction.
I don't think I've ever been so scared in my life. I had already been through one bad car accident that killed my older sister but thankfully I was knocked out and really don't remember much about how it happened. Brenda is so right. Your life can change in seconds.
I am glad to hear you were safe. And I was sorry to hear about your sister.
ReplyDeleteI have never been in an accident, but I can imagine the frightfulness. I was driving to high school when I was a Junior--winter, canyon road--and my car spun on black ice, I wasn't scared at the time, but afterwards it hit me.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that God was watching over you and kept you and your family safe.
Amazing story.... sorry about your sister and glad your ex was driving too! they do come in handy for some things (after all they gave us great kids!)
ReplyDeleteBrenda - so true - I have always told my kids that even though I did not want to be with their father anymore, I would always "love" him because he gave them to me.
ReplyDeleteI would have been so freaked out, especially with the kids in the car. I'm so glad I learned to drive in Florida and have not had to drive anywhere near snow or ice... I'm sorry about your sister, too.
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