The worst feeling!

I just finished reading a story about a woman who forgot about her baby in the back seat of her car all day and I won't even finish telling you the end of the story cause I feel sick in my stomach and I just want to cry! I have heard so many stories like this and now that it's summertime I get more and more nervous about the kind of accidents that can happen with kailah if I'm not paying attention! This puts so much pressure on us as parents and I wish I never even thought about bad things happening like this but I do.
I used to babysit for a family when I was younger who lost a baby Because the mom thought the dad had the baby and the dad thought the mom had the baby and the baby ended up wondering off to a river and drowning. I remember crying forever and just feeling so sick to my stomach about that accident. But now that I'm a parent it's so much more of a reality. God blessed me with this little person who we have responsibility for. If anything were to happen to kailah I wouldn't be able to live with myself.
Jason and I can be very forgetful people sometimes and we tend to not listen to eachother sometimes too which leads to miscommunication and a lot of hear say. This feels like an accident waiting to happen. I talked to Jason about this tonight and I hope and pray that we will always be mindful of our children and where they are. I know these accidents can happen to anyone and Anything can happen in a split second. Now that kailah is walking I really have to watch her. She LOVES to explore and is not scared of the ocean or pool one bit! Infact she tends to run for the water when she sees it lately!
She also likes to run out into the road before I put her In the car and she loves trying to go down the stairs which she has not figured out how to properly do yet! And the playground...well that's a whole other story...
I'm praying for a happy safe summer and am going to ALWAYS check my backseat and always know where kailah is EVEN if it's Jasons turn to watch her! I hope I will be able to make these habits of mine!

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