Guardian Angel on Duty.

When I was going through my chemo I was blessed by the fact that I did not have to go to work. My wonderful husband supported me and took care of me. So I was at home everyday. I was bald from the chemo and very uncomfortable in public. But one day, at home, I heard my dogs barking like crazy... I looked out the window and saw that they were near the front fence carrying on like there was a strange creature about to enter their kingdom. I opened the door and ventured out further to see this creature. But, to my amazement, there walking up the road, jabbering away, was a small boy and a dog.

Now I live in a very rural area. In every direction you cannot see the neighbors for the trees. So I was very curious about this babe and dog. And he was a babe, he was so young that he couldn't even tell me his name. I didn't know what to think. Had he come down the hill from that neighbors house? or from the nieghbor that's closer to the main road? He couldn't tell me, the dog couldn't tell me. So I grabbed him up and walked to both neighbors - neither were at home.

So I took him into the house to call my husband. You should have heard that conversation:
"Hi honey. I found a baby. " "A baby what?" "It's a boy." "A boy what?" It's a baby boy child."
"Yeah, right." "No, really. He was walking up the road." "Where's his parents?" "I don't know, he didn't bring them. - Can we keep him?" "NO! You alreadly have two dogs!" Or something like that.

Anyway, I sat with him for what seemed like hours. My dogs loved him, licked him, and he liked them too. I gave him some water and crackers. I also found that he was covered from head to toe with ticks. So I went about cleaning him up - as best as I could with no experience in child - anything.

After a while I called my friend Kathi, who lives on the main road. To see if she knew of anyone missing a little boy. (Another weird conversation.) She didn't know of anyone, but would keep her eyes open.

Well after so long I was going to call the police. It was getting dark and I couldn't believe someone wasn't looking for this beautiful child.

Then the phone rings. It's Kathi, she says a truckload of people were driving up and down the road. She sent her husband, Stan, to find them.

Sure enough, it was Blaine's mom and dad. They had a whole bunch of people scouring the area for him. They live off another road nearby and all were outside. Blaine had followed his dog off. He had traveled through the woods about a mile - which is why he was covered with ticks.

His mom was crying and you could see the worry on his daddy's face. But everything turned out okay. I even got some chocolate cookies as a reward.

During a time of my life that seemed so bleak, Blaine and his family really brighten my outlook.