I can "semi"-look back and laugh at this now because everything turned out ok. But this is something that everyone takes for granted that will "never" happen to them.
My wife calls me Saturday afternoon while I was at the open house for JJSPEC. She is flippin out!! So histericle that I cant get a word of what shes saying. She finally take a couple breaths and tells me this. "The boys are gone!! " I said "what are you talkin about". She laid my 6 year old boy, my 4 year old boy, and my 9month girl down, and they all took a nap. When she woke up, the boys were not in there rooms and the back door was unlocked and opened. ALL of the doors were locked when they laid down. She walked around the house yellin their names and they were definatly not inside. It was about 40 deg. and raining outside. She went into our fenced in back yard and the side gate was open! She yelled for the boys and they were not in the back yard. So you can only imagine what was going through her head. She was terrified and thinkin that someone broke into our house and kipnapped them or they snuck out of the house and someone grabbed them.
Well, my 6 yr old decided that they should walk to their friend's house to see if he was home, to play!! They put their coats on and headed out the back door. He lives almost 1 mile away, down a dirt road, and they walked in the freezing rain with no socks on and no gloves to this boys house, BUT he wasnt home. So they headed back to our house and they got lost and couldnt find the way back. Some Older guy picked them up in his truck! My wife was down at the end of the road and just happened to see them in his truck, and he stopped and asked if they were hers.
Holy shit! Talk about the worst day of my life!!