Life is Crazy

We walked away relatively unharmed. Randy and I were coming back from a temple trip to pick up our boys. We were headed East on 800 South. The other driver was headed North on 700 East. We had the green light and were fully in the middle of the intersection when the other driver hit us - our light was green for a few seconds so the other driver must have been distracted by something and didn't even see that she had a red light (texting maybe?). Randy tried his best to hit the brakes, but everything happened so fast. Thankfully she didn't hit my side - I may have had a different story to tell today.

I was taken by ambulance to University of Utah hospital and was kept there overnight to monitor the baby. He was a champ through it all - kicking and somersaulting like nothing ever happened. The boys stayed that night with our friends who were watching them. We're a little bruised and sore today, and pretty shaken up, but it could have been a lot lot worse. We're heartbroken about our car, it was paid for and we really loved it. But as one of the witnesses of the accident said, "Life is crazy sometimes."

Randy had the week off and we were a able to relax and enjoy each other - we had a low stress agenda of getting some things done around the house, taking the boys up the canyon for tin-foil dinners and roasted marshmallows, going to This Is The Place park; Randy went on a day hike, I slept in every morning and took naps with Joshy every afternoon. We even fit in a long overdue trip to the temple. I'm glad we had that lovely time together because I'm sure we're going to be dealing with some stress trying to replace our car and getting everything situated with our insurance.

I am also grateful for an article I read a few weeks prior that I got in my email inbox. It talked about how to protect the baby in the event of a car accident and how to wear your seatbelt. After reading that article, I made sure I followed its advice (keeping your seat as far as it can from the airbags, wearing the seatbelt under the belly, etc.). There was also an accident Thursday morning on 700 East involving a pregnant woman who was 7 1/2 months along and her baby didn't make it. I've been thinking about her ever since I read about the story and my heart aches for her. To lose a baby when you're so close would be devastating. I thought about how random her accident was - and when we were driving to and from the temple I was very aware of the other drivers and hoping the same thing wouldn't happen to us - it just goes to show you that these things sometimes can't be prevented no matter how cautious you are.

When I was in the temple yesterday, there was a brief moment when I was thinking about the baby and visualizing his delivery and our first meeting, I felt reassurance that that day would soon come - that experience was a comfort to me on the way to the hospital when we weren't sure how the baby was yet. Life is crazy and sometimes out of control, but we are given many tender mercies. Thank goodness for that.

**Update: We were able to replace our van and received a settlement from our insurance company in 5 days! We feel so blessed that we didn't have to focus on this with the baby coming so soon**