Okay. I’m just going to say it.

We forgot one of our kids at the county fair.

But it was only for twenty minutes and we found him paging through a little New Testament Bible that he got from the Gideon stand in one of the buildings so clearly God was watching out for him despite our brain fart.

You see, Isaiah had just won first place in the Tractor Pedal Pull

and we were all celebrating his victory and the fact that he now gets to go to the state competition in September. We hopped in the van to go grab a burger before the parade started and it wasn’t until we were waiting for our food that we realized we were one fry short of a Happy Meal.

First time in twenty years of parenting that we didn’t do a head count in the van and wouldn’t you know!

So now if you see a family of nine walking down the street with harnesses attached to each other in one big line, doing a role call every ten minutes, you’ll know it’s us.

And Nathanael? Don’t ever scare Momma like that again.