Sad

This is a sad post. Well, I guess it depends on how you look at it. To some it's sad, to some scary, and to some anger and bewilderment. I was supposed to fold clothes, but instead I found myself flipping through the channels. The 5 o clock news came on with a breaking story of a boy in Portland who is lost. He is 7 years old, and after he and his mom went to school, she watched him walk inside, and no one has seen him since. HE WAS TAKEN FROM THE SCHOOL! From inside the school. His mom watched him walk in, and he never made it to his classroom. So in the minutes it took to get from the front door to his classroom, he vanished. I am sick! I told Tyler when he came home from work, and we both are stunned. Our FHE lesson quickly changed to safety tonight and talking about strangers. We even roll played with both kids and Tyler was a stranger and he said to Mason" Are you Mason? Your little brother is stuck in a tree. Come with me, he needs help." And pulled him out of the living room. Then we told him that if a stranger does that he needs to scream his head off and run. We couldn't push the point enough that following strangers was the worst thing they could ever do. We talked about who it was safe to get a ride home from school with. And to top it off with we made child identification pamphlets. They were giving them out at the school carnival for free. We have their information, fingerprints, and pictures. Tyler had already planned for weeks to do this tonight, but I've never really thought about filling one of those out until today. I mean, this kid vanished from inside his own school. What next? I would strongly encourage everyone to get one. Just to be safe. Sorry for the downer blog, but in life...... well...I don't know. It's just part of life.