Counting My Blessings......

I know I haven't posted since Griffin was blessed and I have a lot of catching up..... But today I am feeling very blessed. Yesterday could have changed my life and the life of my family in less than 5 minutes.

I decided that I was going to make the best of the summer and why not start by SWIMMING.... Janey does great in the water AJ does OK as long as he has his FLOATIES on and he hates going under the water and Griff doesn't like to sit in his float tube he wants me to hold him and as for me well I am not much of a fan but I will do what it takes to make my kids happy. So today I decided that I would get in the pool with Griff and see If I could get him use to the tube. Janey was playing with friends and AJ was just being AJ running and having a ball with his FLOATIES on something that he has never had a problem with. He knows that he has to wear them and has never fought us on it. Somewhere in a span of about 3 minutes he decided to somehow take his floaties off (I will never know how he got them off I have a hard time pulling them off) and jump into the pool. Unfortunately I did not see him jump into the pool and neither did anyone else. One of the little girls that was swimming ran over to her mom to show her that she had cut her foot and luckily looked in the water and said mom someone is drowning. Amber and I both turned and looked and sure enough AJ yes my sweet energetic AJ was laying in the bottom of the pool. I ran over and grabbed him not thinking that I would pick a limp body up. I looked at his blue lips and his pale face and knew that If I panicked his chance were pretty slim so I took a deep breath laid him on the ground and did mouth to mouth something that I never thought I would have to do on my own child. It seemed like forever but it was a matter of 3 or 4 breaths that I had to give him to get him to spit up the water. We had called 911 and was still on the phone with them when he came around and started to cry they asked if we still needed them and I told them no hoping I was making the right decision. I sat there holding AJ and cried. When I pulled myself together for the moment I realized that I needed to take him into the DR. to make sure that his lungs were ok. Thank goodness Everything checked out perfect. It was after I left the Dr. office that it hit me hard. I knew that I was so blessed to be driving home with a little boy that was perfect mentally and physically. I knew that someone was watching over me that day and helped me. And I was so thankful for a very brave 6 year old that saved my sweet energetic AJ....

Last night was a very long night. So many what ifs and why was i not paying more attention. This morning I am very emotional. I have 3 beautiful and healthy children that have a very hard working dad. At this moment nothing else matters.