A scary morning...

Have you ever actually thought your child was missing?

Like for real?

Well, here's a little story that happened at our house last week.

Seems kindof funny now.

We laugh about it almost every day actually.

But at the time,

there was no laughing... I promise...

It goes like this...

Shane gets up to check to see that Saige is up at the usual time, 6:15.

A few minutes later he comes into the room and wakes me up with this...

"Saige is gone!  I can't find her anywhere!  She is not in this house!"

I jump out of bed groggy and confused saying, "maybe she is downstairs?  In a sisters room. etc."

He is frantic + freaking out a little, actually a lot...

We run to her room.

Where in the world would a 14 year old go @ 6 in the morning.

Crazy things start running through my head...

I've read the Elizabeth Smart book...

Those kindof crazy things are going through my head!

 

I remembered that the upstairs bathroom light was on @ 2:30 am when I stumbled out to get cough medicine for Lydia... they never leave the light on at night.  Could something have happened to her before then?

I also remembered that her door was shut @ 11:30 PM when we got home from the super late Aggie b-ball game the night before + we never checked on her just assumed she was there.  Which means we hadn't actually seen her since about 8 PM the night before.

We ran to Tayler's room, frantically woke her up and told her Saige was missing.

Tayler read that book too.

The two of us are thinking the same thing.

We are panicking!

Tayler notices her phone is gone.

Calls it... no answer.

We're running around the house crazy like.

The front door is unlocked,

both Shane and I checked that the night before and knew it was locked.

She's gone!!!

Could she be sleepwalking?

Why would she leave?

Did someone take her?

Then Shane asked Tay and I what shoes were missing?  Was she wearing shoes?

??????

Tayler, Saige and I share shoes.

A lot of shoes.

Honestly figuring out which ones were missing + what she might have been wearing...

would take some time!

Both of us look at Shane like, are you kidding me???

It hadn't been very long,

but we didn't know what to do.

So Shane called the police...

spent a minute explaining the situation and that we had NO idea where she could be.

Tayler tries calling her phone again... no answer.

A few seconds later her phone rings.

Tay answers this way...

"Who is this?"

Like it might be the kidnappers demanding a ransom or something.

Nope it was Saige.

Super confused on why we were confused.

She was at her YW's leaders house...

with all the other YW her age...

Having breakfast to welcome a new Mia Maid in.

Tayler and I knew that... totally forgot that!

Shane lets the dispatch lady know that we found her.

She didn't hang up until asking a few more question like who is she with...  

"um, her Young Women leaders..."

We let Saige know when she got home that... if she ever wants to know if she is loved, or would be missed, try to picture the panic and fear the 3 of us had that morning!

When Jadyn got up that morning I said, "we thought Saige was lost this morning."

Her response...

"O, did you not remember that she was going to breakfast?"

Nope, Jady we didn't!

We were super grateful that day!

That day that we will never forget!