September

Sept 11th. I've been thinking on where I was and what I was doing that day. I was at Ft Campbell. I barely made it back onto post before they locked it down. As I pulled up in front of my house, my neighbor running out and yelling that the world trade center had been hit by a plane and the Pentagon was on fire. Armed soldiers at my kids school. Calling my mom and waking her up, telling her the horrible news. Humvees & MP's patrolling the streets. That feeling of helplessness, mourning for those lives lost, anger and confusion-wondering how people could do this to each other.Worried about Blair leaving for Afghanistan, proud of him and our soliders. Sleeping alone, not knowing if I'd get to say goodbye if he deployed. Kids having no teachers on the 12th because they couldn't get on post with the one gate open. Wanting to hold onto my children and never let them go............ *After Sept 11th*
Broden with his Thomas backpack walking to school, guards waiting to check my ID. If I remember, they checked it near the crosswalk and again at the school doors.

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I love driving through Lakeshore/Benjamin and watching people bringing in their harvest. It is starting to feel a bit like fall. Though it's not cooled off enough yet for me. :) Smelling the hay as they cut it, looking at the corn growing. Watching the red-taile hawks cut and dive through the air. I love fall.

It's the middle of Sept. Wow. What have I done in the last month? I finished all the blocks on my gingerbread man quilt. It's cute! Still have the borders and actual quilting to do..... to machine quilt or to hand quilt...that is the question.

David is signed up with a study at BYU for kids w/ autism. He's thrilled cause he makes some money, and I am hoping the research will get us closer to a cure, or at the very least a cause. Broden was disappointed, they deemed him "too normal" for the study and not "normal" enough for the control group. Poor kid! :) He was so looking forward to some easy money!
Everyone is back in school. Blair & the kids. I am back to full-time at Maceys. Garrett (my nephew who's been living with us, has a job and is closer to his enlistment into the Army. :D
It's late and I better get to bed. I leave you with a question.....What IS Normal??