{ 7:17 AM }

I thought my morning would be like usual. Daniel woke up first, happily saying that he wasn't sick anymore. He comes downstairs and drinks his warm milk followed by his granola bar. At 6:10 I go in to wake up Emmie and Sophia gets up at 6:30. The morning flows as it usually does......breakfasts and packing lunches for the girls. Daniel watches Handy Manny and Andrew remains in his la la world of sleep. Out the door at 7:10 goes Emmie to head off to her student council meeting. At 7:17 the phone rings and I think to myself that she is either in the ditch or she forgot something and needs me to bring it. Sure enough, I hear the unsettled tone in her voice as she tells me she went off the road. I asked her where she was and she said right by Camp Manitoulin. I asked her if she is ok to which she said yes, I ask her if the air bag deployed to which she said no and then I ask her if the vehicle was still running and she said no. That she turned it off because it smelled like fire. I told her I would call her back in 5 minutes. I bolted upstairs to get David and then knew I would be the one taking Fia to school. So, I quickly wake up Andrew, call Emmie back to tell her Dad was on the way. She told me one of our friends from church { Gregg Granger} stopped and helped her out of the car and into his. I was so thankful. David left about 5-6 minutes before me. I gathered all the little ones in the Mama Machine, breakfast to go for the boys, got Fia suited up in her snow gear and I decided that I would go to see Emmie and see if everything was ok. You see, in my mind, I envisioned her car off to the right side of the road, the front end down in the snow and her car slightly on an angle. That is NOT what I came upon as I found her on the first bend of Briggs Road. All the pictures taken were about and 1 1/2 later of the accident. I decided to go back and look at it again. At that point the wrecker was there and I watched as they pulled her vehicle out and I was able to see just how much damage was done and how lucky she really was.

When I saw that she had gone off in a COMPLETELY different area then I had thought and that she had gone through the chain link fence, I began sobbing before I even got out of my vehicle. Her jeep ripped through the fence and the fence came totally back over the jeep once she was through. The top of the bar on the fence was torn apart. I ran to her and held her and just sobbed......then I couldn't breathe.....all I could do was hold her and stare at her car and the tree that was through the front of it.

Thankfully it was a smaller tree and on the passenger side.

The wrecker took the whole road to pull her out.

The tires were very deep in the mud.

Taken with my cell phone. You can see the tree stuck in the front of

the car and the ones that she just barely missed.

Parts and pieces were falling off everywhere.

The big tree she missed only by inches on the drivers side.

The drivers side of the vehicle. A flat tire and I think a damaged sun roof.

Loaded up and ready to go. I was numb by this point.

Thank you Lord for protecting my child. She is home, she is sore, she has pain medications from the Doctor to take and is staying home tomorrow. And now, I am going to cuddle up in bed with my girl. Thank you to all who called, emailed and checked in with me. Love you all.