Missing child

a little story of how I lost my 12yo & 14yo...the boys and I were in Walmart yesterday.  The boys wanted to go look around together and let me do the shopping, something we have done many times before.  Of course neither one has their cell phone with them.  I know my boys they wonder off from where they said they would be.  I finish shopping, walk around the store looking for them.  Don't see them anywhere, I figure we are circling each other.  I think maybe they went to the car...so I pay, take the bags out to the car and see they are not there either.  Okay, back into the store, no I am just ready to go home.  I have them overhead paged, something I have done before.  And soon they come bounding up to the front, smiling and laughing.  This time, I wait, no boys...I have them paged again with 'meet you mom at the front', wait...no boys.  We have had the talk, don't get stolen, don't believe strangers when they say you need to come with them.  I am starting to panic...I let the customer service know, they call a Code Adam - meaning missing child.  I am frantic, I look outside thinking maybe they are waiting for me, I run back in the store, still have not found my little boys.  The service desk knows where they are!  They tell me where to find them.  I see them and feel relief, my boys are there talking with an employee, safe..I need a hug, I tell them I was scared and my boys hug me while I cry.  Then I make them hold my hand out of the store.  My 5'9 and 5'4 boys (taller then their mom) got a missing child alert called for them.

Oh so where were they, in the bathroom.  They stayed together. 

This is not the first time I have had to ask for a Code Adam in a store...

why mom was screamin...

there are those moments that happen everyday so unplanned that get brought up later and everyone laughs till they cry.  let me set the scene the hubs and I are sitting on the back porch swapping work stories, having some laughs.  Our dear youngest comes out to listen. We live a bit in the country, spiders, tree frogs, snakes are pretty common. A little tree frog was hanging onto the window behind the boy and hubs asks him to catch it and throw it into the yard seeing it seemed close to the house and we did not want any over night guest.  That slippery little frog jumped right out of his hand and landed in my EYE.  GROSS! that shocking moment you feel you just got slimmed! It felt like my eye was open and that dumb frog was on my FACE!  I jump up screaming, "my eye, my eye", I'm dancing around, in my excitement I pee my pants!  I run to the bathroom to flush out my eye.  Seriously we have flesh eating bacteria in the coastal waters right now!  I hear the hubs and boy laughing!  Heck I was laughing too.  Right after my shower and flushing my eye.