my father emailed my brother, sister and i that 9/11 is grandparents day. my first thought is oh here we go again.. dad wanting us to take him out to dinner... but i am trying to think of it differently.. maybe it's his way of reaching out because he isn't the best communicator. so i turned it around and tried to take it in a positive way instead of a negative.
so i sent D an email to see if we can take him, faith and mom out to dinner. i do want M to know his family and hope that with my parents and step mom have learned how their parents were with their own children and what they can do differently. plus k will be born soon and he'll want to know his grandparents too.
but honestly what i thought about was that this is the 10 year anniversary of all the 9/11 victims and their poor families. what their families must have felt and that this is the worst day of their lives. that they not only lost their loved ones but how can the 'higher being' take them away??? what's the lesson that needs to be learned? there were so many victims and heroes. as i watch bits and pieces of documentaries of this day i learn so much more. i can still remember that day so well. and can't imagine how it felt for the ppl that lived there at the time.
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at the end of the day, we can learn all we want. but, we can only do what we can. in this case, it's make the most of what time we do have with our own families and, hopefully, be a good example to our kids (as it seems you want to do).
btw, who is k?
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