My Close Call with a SUV... On The Sidewalk!

Saturday evening my 4-year-old son and my husband took me out to dinner for Mother’s Day.  We do this because my Mother’s Day is always filled with celebrating my mother who lives close-by and my mother-in-law who lives close-by.  And this is great, and I am happy and thankful that both my husband and myself enjoy having our families close… and we almost always have a babysitter!

We got rock star parking- just a few steps away from Cafe Deluxe in Bethesda, a favorite choice of ours for ‘dining’ with a little one- good food, great service, crayons and a booster seat- what more could you ask for? 

My husband parked and ran down the street to look at some new construction…  Boys never really grow up, do they?

My son was safely and happily playing by a bicycle rack about 3-feet-away from me and away from the curb.  I stood ON THE CURB as I fed the parking meter, with one eye on my son and one eye on the meter.  As I put the last coin in the meter, standing on the small area OF SIDEWALK in front of the parking meter, I saw something coming at me out of the corner of my eye.

In a split second I turned, saw a HUGE Explosion Expedition speedily backing into me,

and I jumped out of the way.  My heart stopped for a nanosecond.  The SUV then pulled out of the parking space in front of our car
and sped off.   

My son was dancing and humming around the bicycle rack at this point and I looked at the car pulling into the now unoccupied space.  The older woman in the front seat was clutching her chest and staring at me, “Are you okay?” she mouthed.

As she got out I told her I was fine. 

“That scared me,” she said.  “I thought you were going to get hit!”

I looked at my son; he was fine, he didn’t really notice Mommy almost got hit by an enormous SUV while she was standing on the sidewalk.  I breathed a sigh of relief.

“That would have been a bad Mother’s Day present.”  I chuckled to her.

Just then my husband was walking back to us, completely oblivious to what had just happened, picked up our son and said,

“Are we ready?”   

Yes, we were ready.  Everyone was fine. 
Once again, the mommy averted disaster.

So with extra crayons and apple juice packed in my purse, I double-checked the meter, locked the car and proceeded into the restaurant with ‘my guys’… and had a great dinner.

All the while I smiled, thanked my son for making me a mommy, and secretly thanked God for making me a mom and all the attributes that go along with that…

One of my favorite attributes of being a mother is ‘being aware’.  Motherhood has taught me to be aware of others’ feelings and my own feelings,
Motherhood has taught me to be aware of how I express myself to my child and others,

and to be aware of my surroundings- the nearest park, a firefly…

Or a BIG TRUCK when it is about to shove me into the sidewalk!

Original DC Metro Moms Post.

When Nicole isn’t dodging traffic, shes blogging over at BananaBlueberry.

Comments

[MamaBird/SurelyYouNest]

Oh MY goodness, I am so glad you are ok. Nightmare. Hope you got to have some of that delicious spinach-cheese dip, or an order of their perfect onion rings to perk yourself back up.

[JessicaAPISS]

Wow! Hopefully the driver was extremely freaked about his/her near hit and is nowa better driver! And thankfully you could order a glass of wine & enjoy a great Mom's Day with your guys.