and it's a day I will never forget. It's a day that I hate when it comes around. The news is plastered with all those images again. It scared me. that day. I kinda thought the world was coming to an end. No one knew what else would happen. I was scared to be without my son. He was 4 at the time in preschool. So I yanked him out of preschool. I think I didn't take him for like a week. I don't even remember leaving the house. I don't even remembering showering that day. I was so glued to the tv. But them I remember the American Pride. All the sudden everyone had HUGE flags on their cars. I mean pickup trucks with big flag poles standing up tall in the bed, flapping in the wind from their speed. Flags on car antennas. Flag stickers on windows. Flag murals on the whole back window. And everyone had their flags proudly up on their homes. that made me feel a little bit better. And I had a craft show that October. And I remember questioning what it would be like. Because everyone was scared. No one was spending money. No one was going anywhere. And the show came....and I remember it being HUGE! Everyone was soaking up "handmade in America"!!!! Since my son was so little at the time, he was very impressionable. And we all know it was plastered ALL over the news....very hard to keep a little one from seeing it. I remember at times, I would find him standing up tall the empty cartons from his dads "Coors light" cans, and then he'd take one of his toy planes and crash them down. I HATED it. But he was 4, and he didn't understand what was actually happening. So I stopped him each time, trying to explain. And he loved to draw....so this is what he took in, and then put out on paper.
I'm so glad that I saved it. At first...it was an image that I wasn't happy that was planted in my 4yr olds mind. so I just left it in his spiral notebook. Then years later I found it while cleaning out his desk, weeding through all the spiral notebooks he would color in. I immediately pulled it out and put it in a clear sleeve....KNOWING that this was something that I needed to keep, if not for me, but for him.
Because I hate this day, I hate posting postive stuff on it. I guess it makes me feel a little guilty. Because my personal life was actually physically touched by this day, just emotionally. But...I need to change those thoughts....and I need to understand that life does go on, and that we need to show them that they cannot stop us and we will survive!
Last night, I updated my website with a couple more dolls, and some kitties too!
Have a nice weekend! We are without kids again.....but yummy boyfriend is working today...so I guess maybe I should too!
I love the kitties! Esp. with the black and orange combo! Cute Annie with the square glasses too!
Hugs!
Posted by: Sandy | September 12, 2010 at 06:14 PM