There is no good excuse for the blunder I made today! Eden and I had just finished running off to the grocery store to pick up some things for dinner. We hopped in the car and then got on the road back home. There is an intersection that I had to take a u-turn at to get to the freeway entrance. I waited for the all clear and then zipped around. I heard a CLUNK and thought the groceries must have been sent flying–I looked in my rear view with the impossible thought that it would have been Eden. I didn’t see anything and continued to merge into the lane I needed to enter the freeway. I heard a loud cry, looked over my shoulder this time and saw Eden’s carseat face down on the other side of the back seat. It turns out I buckled Eden into her carseat but forgot that the seat wasn’t secured in it’s base like normal (the base is in the other car today) so I forgot to strap the seat belt over her. What had I done!!! I pulled over (in a not so safe place–but I couldn’t leave her face down and screaming!) I jumped in the back seat, pulled her out of her carseat and held her, loved her and hoped and prayed she was alright! She is fine. She wasn’t super thrilled that I put her back in the seat to get us home, but so far as I can tell I am more traumatized than she is! Good grief!