1. ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL? The NFL is back in action along with all the college teams. Are you a fan? Who do you root for? If you’re not a fan what do you do while the rest of America watches Saturday, Sunday, Monday night, and now Thursday night games?
I’m not into it like most of my family is. So I read or write or cook while they watch. I do love the Super Bowl, and will usually have a team picked out.
2. What’s something I’ll always find in your closet?
Next years Christmas presents! Starting the day after Christmas I buy little trinkets for the next year. I also have my daughter to buy for in December, as her birthday is December 20th.
3. Share one of your earliest memories.
I remember having my appendix out. It was just before my fourth birthday. I vaguely remember the pain. I do remember watching Captain Kangaroo through the bars on the children’s crib they had me in, and I remember missing my sister a lot.
4. What circus act best describes your week so far?
A Juggler. I am so busy this week and I feel like I am juggling to keep everything going.
5. What’s a food you disliked as a child but you love now?
Creamed Herring. I hated it as a kid, but when I married Hubby and we went to Germany I learned all about good Creamed Herring! Hmmmmmm!
6. Describe your summer in three words.
Wet, wonderful, wild. (Wet because it rained a ton and ruined my garden. Wonderful because of Savannah Rose and Wild because it seems I just get busier and busier!)
7. Where were you on September 11, 2001? Will you do anything special to mark the day this year?
My post yesterday tells exactly where I was: the shower, and where I went later in the day: the dentist. I pray each year for the people who died that day, and for their families and then for all who have given their lives in defending our country.
8. Insert your own random thought here.
A woman I knew back in High School thinks we should just forget about 9/11 and go forward with no memorials for those who lost their lives that day.
I was pretty upset about this because I thought of all those police and firemen and women who lost their lives, and about all those innocent people! I thought of the families who sit down to dinner with an empty chair at their table. I know how it feels to lose someone so quickly, and senselessly.
Of course, Katie did not die due to a Terrorist, but how many of those men and women on 9/11 woke up that day thinking “today I will die?”
On 9/11/01 I was preparing to go to the Dentist. I was having two teeth capped. Jack pulled me out of the shower and we watched the after affects of the first plane hitting the first Tower. As we sat watching, the second plane came in and hit the second Tower. Hubby is a former Air Line Pilot and after the first plane went in, he turned to me and said, “That was a big plane, and that was no accident”.
I cried almost all day. I did actually get to the Dentist, and I discovered that everyone else had cancelled that day. But the thing I remember the most was that no one was on the road. The town was deserted as people stayed in to watch what was happening.
I hugged and held my husband, realizing that had he not retired a few years before, he would have been vulnerable to this sort of Terrorism.
No we must never forget what these people sacrificed.
God Bless them all.
