So very thankful!

More so than ever before!

I honestly don't know why I am even posting this, but I am going too, maybe someone will learn from my mistake and stupidity!

Monday night, typical night at the Braatz house, CRAZY, the boys were downstairs playing Wii and Owen and I went downstairs to check on them, came back up to check dinner. Of course I was holding him like I always do, but I needed 2 hands to do whatever I was doing so I put Owen down. He was teering apart the cubboards like usual, the phone rings I go to look and see who it is, hear the gate and that is pretty much when I blacked out! Owen fell down ALL 14 of our stairs! Did your heart drop...... mine does everytime I think about it!!!

By the time I got to the top of the stairs he was half way down and continued rolling to the bottom! It is a horror picture I WILL NEVER EVER FORGET!!!! The only thing I remember is thinking what shape is he going to be in when I get to the bottom, which seemed like it took forever for me to get there! Of course he was crying and moving all his limbs, so I scooped him up and just held onto him as tight as I could! Nothing happened to him, not a scratch, bruise, nothing only about 5 minutes of tears!! How did this happen, well when Owen and I came back upstairs, I, Stacy, his mother, his protector, forgot to shut the gate!!!! I preach and preach to everyone else about the gate and I forget to shut it, something I WILL NEVER DO AGAIN! Now I know he is fine of course, but it is hard for me to think about what could of happened from my stupidity mistake!

I have never felt so scared in my entire life, NEVER! I also have never cried so much nor I have ever thanked god so much for protecting my sweet baby O during his fall!

It is a memory, more like scary movie I would like to forget, but unfortunatley it will always be in my mind!

So now the boys ask me "did you shut the gate mom?"

Thank you god for keeping him safe!