Dan and I literally spent the month in its entirety watching documentaries about September 11th almost every night in the window of space we have with each other before he goes to work. It was as though we both were awakened to the true brutality of all that happened a decade ago. It's ridiculous that it's been 10 years. It really feels as though it was just last week, or a few weeks ago maybe at the most.
September 11th overwhelmed me when it happened 10 years ago. And, Dan was working a generation on the flight line at good ol' Barksdale AFB that day (a real-life 2x/year exercise for "the real deal" with nukes being loaded onto B-52's), so I think he honestly didn't even understand the scale of it all for quite some time.
We're hoping to go visit New York City next year for the opening of the 9/11 museum.
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In other news, September was busy:
Girlies enjoyed the 9/11 concert held at the duck pond. I did talk to them *vaguely* about what happened that day, and why it is so important to remember that day in history. We talked a lot about the USA during the summer, and "America the Beautiful" and "The Star Spangled Banner" are 2 of their very favorite songs so they were MORE than delighted when they heard them being sung at the concert. It was also the first day that I was able to get 2 french braids in Abrielle's hair!:
Uncle Matt, Amber, Olivia, Hannah, and baby Kaitlyn also came at the end of the month for a short 1-night visit. My girlies were so excited! They just love baby Kaitlyn (Abrie is so precious with her baby cousin; she wants to help ALL the time and be near "the baby"). And, of course Olivia and Hannah are their Virginia best buds:
Maddie got Student of the Month for September and ate lunch with the principal that last Monday. She was beyond excited!
Faith and Abrie love doing their "work" here at home. Abrie of course wants to do EVERYTHING Faith does, so Abrie's been practicing with scissors lately:
These are the two "buddies" doing their "gymnastics!":
A sweet lady that goes to the library dropped off some stuff for the girls last week or so. We were thrilled to see some awesome games in the mix of stuff (and in such great condition too), not to mention the family was clearly full of Disney fans! So, we've been quite busy with lots of game nights lately (Princess Monopoly Jr is a hit these days):
AND... (how could I have forgotten?!) Maddie was the winner of a $100 gift card to Barnes and Noble!! Her 85th summer reading ticket was chosen last week at the Berks County Literacy Council meeting where they pulled the staff kids' winning ticket! I couldn't believe it; we never win ANYTHING! Maddie right away said she wanted to share her gift card with her sissies, and they had so much fun at the bookstore last week buying books;)
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Wow! You had a very busy month. We picked one 9/11 documentary to watch with Alex. It was hard to see it all again. It was good, though, because we talked about what happened. "Why" was a harder question, since nothing will ever explain but we settled with "evil in their hearts".
Does the museum staff recognize your girlies yet? They should! I'm sure they love the visits from princesses. ;)
I hope that everyone is feeling better now.
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