Random remembrances and a Zane update :)

I am a diehard scrapbooker. Well, more of a scrapbook supply collector! but I love that scrapbooking combines photography and memories. Sometimes when there aren't pictures though, I don't write things down. I think when we are older our kids and grandkids are going to ask us where we were the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. My cousins daughters bday is Sept.11, 1997. Poor thing. I recently wrote down a little bit of my memories on that day and I decided to post them here. I hope you will write down your memories of that tragic day before they disappear.

I need to write about my feelings on 9/11.
Short version is I was up with baby KateLyn and turned on the TV. Usually I wasn't up that time of morning 6:30 ish Pacific time and was horrified to see the towers burning. I remember I was watching NBC. I couldn't comprehend the magnitude of it. Surely there weren't many people there. Shortly after I turned it on the towers fell one by one. I remember looking at it in horrified fascination watching it unfold live on TV. I couldn't wrap my mind around it. I thought that maybe there weren't that many people in there since it was fairly early in the morning. Up until that time, I wasn't sure what the world trade center was. I thought they were some UN type of buildings or something. I remember panicking.I flipped channels and QVC was on and they were still selling things. That seemed strange to me. In a few minutes, they had stopped selling things and had a banner that due to the days events they wouldn't be airing their programs.

Brynn had preschool that day so I took her to school and remember driving by the Puyallup Fairgrounds on my way and the fair was going but there weren't many people there and I can remember the feeling that it all seemed so odd to see fair rides going when the world was upside down. It was eery. I had a gift card from Target so that day I stocked up on food and water in case the world was ending. There were only a few people in Target which was odd since it's usually packed! I remember standing on our deck that night and thinking how strange and quiet it was because they had shut down all air travel. It was a really scary time not knowing what was coming next. I didn't cry about it until about 6 months later when I was watching something sad about it and then it all came out. I felt such sorrow for the senseless loss of life the families of the victims endured. The story I still remember almost 5 years later was of a man from California whose wife was at the WTC on business for just a few days. I remember him pleading to let him know if anyone had any information about her. Like so many others, I don't think he found her. I hope we never forget about the people who lost there lives so senselessly that day and the heroes who saved so many lives on the planes and on the ground.

If you haven't, write down your thoughts on this historic, horrible day.


Now for a Zane update. Apparently, Zane's prinicipal had a change of heart and is letting the boys do 8 hours of community service in order to walk at graduation night. (Oh man, now I might have to go to it) The parents are supervising them. The thought of that cracked me up! They also have to tow the line perfectly from now until then and if anyone disrupts the ceremony they will be escorted out. I doubt they will raise a peep now. I think they have been humbled. :)

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and
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