October 1, 2008

Today's Oprah

Oh my gosh, I'm sitting her watching Oprah while Cayden sleeps and it's breaking my heart. It's a show about An Overwhelmed Mother's Deadly Mistake. 
This lady accidently left her daughter (2-3 y.o) in the car all day while she taught school. She needed to take her to the baby sitter's while her husband went to the dentist. She normally didn't take the girl, the husband did. It was a little too early to drop her off, so they went to the store and grabbed some stuff for the first day of school. The little girl was sleeping and so the mom didn't think anything about it when she headed to the school instead of the baby sitter's. At the end of the day, she was packing up to go home (4PM) and a co-worker came to her and said that her daughter was in the car. It had been like 8 hours that the child had been in the car. The little girl had suffered from heat stroke and died. 
Watching this made my heart go out to this mother. I can totally relate to her. When Cayden is sleeping, I'll leave him in the car while I put my purse and bags in the house. This makes me think twice about doing that now. His safety needs to be my number one and not putting the bags into the house first. 
It makes you think a little more!

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