"The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together."
--Erma Bombeck
"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
--Mother Teresa

Sunday, September 11, 2011

I remember...

Emotions have been very close to the surface all day today. September 11, 2001 will be one of those days that will be etched in my mind forever. I was getting ready for work at Inkley's. I always watched the Today Show while I got ready. When I turned it, on the first plane had just hit the World Trade Center and nobody knew what was going on. I remember feeling instant fear, that something just wasn't right. I knew that this wasn't going to be an average day. As I continued getting ready and watching things unfold, my heart sank further and further. I headed into work and we all watched TV the rest of the day. Still trying to understand and soak it all in.

And now tonight, as I have watched interviews and videos of that day, I had my three beautiful daughters each by my side, I couldn't keep the tears inside. I have to admit that I fear for my girls and what things they will have to face in the future. I wish I could just keep them by my side and under my wing forever. However, I am so thankful that they were born into this amazing country! I love this country! I am thankful for our freedoms!

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