sigh....

As the anniversary of 9/11 approached, the TV has been reflecting on the events and re-playing the tradgic day on the TV. On Friday night the girls asked to have a slumber party in our bedroom so of course Brad agreed to this. (he is such a sucker...) So as Isabella was setting up her sleeping bag on the floor in our room Brad, Amelia and I were in the living room watching a movie. Isabella came walking out of my room saying "Amelia, I've got some really bad news to tell you. There is an airplane that ran into a tall building in New York city. Its not good".
Poor little thing, I had to tell her that it was 10 years ago and the TV was just talking about it because it is the anniversary. She started asking alot of questions..."did people die?" ... "how did the bad guys get on the airplane?", 'where were you mommy when this happend?'  and the hardest one to answer was "why did the soldiers let the bad guys into 'earth' " (meaning America of course) . I didn't want to scare her with this information, but I didn't want to leave her to fill in the blanks on her own.
It's hard to have to answer these questions to such  young kiddos, and to inform them without scaring them. It made me realize that there are mommies and daddies that have to answer these questions to the children of 9/11 and how hard that must be.
So we will take some family time today to pray for peace...peace in the hearts of everyone affected by these tragedies...and that God may help those who are still healing from this.

God Bless America