Everyday Miracles

This afternoon I was feeling pretty on the ball. I had dinner in the oven a little after four. It had rained on and off throughout the day. I was working on getting homework done with the kids and everything seemed to be going great. My oldest finished homework and discovered, when he went outside after, that the rain had brought out a ton of worms. Soon after the whole family was outside. I even took my 16 mo. old out because I had dinner done, and I could go out with her. We enjoyed the after rain weather; we talked with the neighbors; some of the kids even picked up the worms. When I knew dinner would be done we all came inside. We wiped off our feet and got to work setting the table. Everyone helped so it took only a minute to get all the food on the table. I asked my oldest to find my 16 mo. old (C) and put her in the highchair. Before he even finished responding, the thought came to my mind, "Outside!" I ran out the front door and found C was in the middle of the street! She was wandering over to the boys playing across the street. I of course grabbed her, while the car coming slowly down the street waited, and came back inside. After, I thought about how when C is not in the room I have a list of usual places to look. She has her favorite drawers to go through; if someone leaves the bathroom open she plays with the toilet(usually my first place to check because it's the most dangerous and disgusting) or she pulls everything out of my drawers; she wanders down to the playroom and finds toys; she loves to go to her room and reach through her crib and pull out her blankets; and she loves to be where the other kids are. My point being, in any normal situation I would have checked the whole house for her first. She has never wandered outside. It truly was inspiration to go look outside, it was an everyday miracle.