Like most Americans, I am making a conscious effort to remember 9-11. We all know where we were when we heard a plane had hit the tower. We remember the sights of the people coming from the buildings before they fell. We remember the news that was non stop for weeks on end. The hopes that we had that if just one more person was pulled from the rubble perhaps the madness would end.
I was sitting in a chair in the old house. I was 5 month pregnant and had just found out a week prior that I was expecting twins. I remember Katie Couric and Matt Lauer not knowing what was happening. I recall wondering where my daddy was, as he spent soo much time in the air. I recall telling Nathan that something was happening. I remember seeing tears in his eyes when he came home from work that day and saw the devastation.
I mostly recall how I thought "Oh my God! I am bringing two more people into a world that is so messed up. What do you do with that?" I am thankful for today, I am not thankful in anyway for what happened today seven years ago-but I am thankful for today. Thankful that I had today. Our mortality is not guaranteed-I am thankful that I-at 32 have only begun to know the loss that those people knew seven years ago.
And on a lighter note: When did I get old enough to need EYE CREAM? I will wear it and I like it-I suppose- but really do I have eye wrinkles at 32?
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9-11-01: Cory worked 2 hours away from home and it was near DFW airport. I had a 2 year old and 7 months prego and thinking the same thing~I am bringing another life into this messed up world, sheesh. Little did I know it would be one of the worst weeks of my life. 9-14-01 my sis-in-law had a precious 3 month old little girl and she was the only girl in the family so we loved her like our own. My sis-in-law went into her room to wake her up that Friday morning to find her life-less body....she died from SIDS. 10-01-01 my son was born; a true gift, yet bittersweet for our family. This is a hard week for us all :( Take Care and love on your boys.
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