Sarah Ripmaster and her two sons during their travel adventure.Sarah Ripmaster/Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Sarah Ripmaster woke up to an email saying her flight had changed but her sons weren't included. American Airlines didn't add her 7- and 8-year-old boys to her new flight from LaGuardia airport. Airline wanted to put the boys on a Tuesday flight but they would have been left alone in New York. A mother of two boys, ages seven and eight, woke up Saturday morning thinking she'd be heading home.But then an email from American Airlines changed everything.Sarah Ripmaster was supposed to fly back home from New York's LaGuardia Airport to Chicago O'Hare International Airport Saturday, until she realized that American had rebooked her, but not her kids.