Monday, May 30, 2011

WEDDING

This is going to be really long. I realized we forgot to ask someone to video tape the wedding!!!!!! So I have to write everything I can remember while it's fresh in my mind.

Yesterday was the most wonderfully beautiful day ever.

The girls and I got up for our hair and make up appointment at 9 and finished setting up the reception site. Fortunately the salon and the site are in the same building.

We got to my house around noon. The groomsmen were supposed to be there already, but of course they were half an hour late. So they got dressed and got ready for their pictures, and us girls ate some lunch and then got ready. We then had our girl picture session and after that Erik and I got to see each other. He waited at the front of the aisle, at the arbor that he and my dad built together.. It was so amazing! We never wanted to stop hugging each other! Then we started our couples photo shoot, but some serious thundering and lightning started happening. We had been told that the rain may start around 5, and our ceremony was at 4 so I wasn't too worried about it.... The ceremony was supposed to be outside in our backyard, btw... But this thunder was SO loud, so we knew the rain would be on top of us at any moment.. We ran inside and right when we stepped in the door it literally started DOWN POURING. A rain I haven't seen in awhile... A torrential downpour, if you will. It was crazy! It was only 2 o 'clock so we thought it might blow over, but decided to head to our rain location to finish up family pictures, and then if it cleared up we would come back. It took us a little while to get all the family members over to the church... by the time we got there, it was probably 3 o clock... still a crazy downpour of rain.. our pastor said she watched a tree get hit by lightning and fall down. And I don't remember the last time I heard thunder so loud!!!! Our niece, Abby, 2, was just in pieces, she was soooo scared! Her mom said that she NEVER gets that way during storms! But it was just sooo loud..

Luckily, the bridesmaids and groomsmen read my mind from my house and brought everything over from the church. We finished up pictures... but it was pretty hectic! Amazingly enough, I wasn't the least bit bummed about the weather.. We got to take a ton of pictures outside in the yard. And I think I was just in a euphoric state of mind and could not be fazed.

After family pictures were over, Pastor Barb took me aside and said she wanted to talk to us individually. She asked me, "Why are you walking towards Erik today? What do you love about him?" So I told her a couple things, and then she asked, "What about for the future, what are you looking forward to?" So I told her. Later one of my bridesmaids told me that she was watching me throughout this little interaction, and she said I was positively glowing!

We had scheduled about 45 minutes before the ceremony for downtime, and I was going to look over my vows then, but because of the rain and the move to the rain location, although it was only about 2 minutes from my house, there was little time before the ceremony. I quickly read through my vows, and made a couple of quick edits... and then it was time to go! The only way to go from our section of the church to where we were going to enter was to go outside... Although we were lacking the torrential rain fall of earlier, it was still raining quite a bit, so some one had to shuffle back and forth carrying an umbrella to escort the bridal party, me and the flower girls, over to the entrance. And then it was go time!

Ceremony Details!
The music was played by my childhood friend, Blake... and he did a BEAUTIFUL job. Actually, I should say that before the ceremony started, my dad and lyla were up at the piano next to him, and Lyla was clinking keys with Blake! AH! CAN'T WAIT TO SEE PICS OF THAT :)! Anyway. So the prelude music was "The Luckiest" by Ben Folds. The processional music was "River Flows in You" By Yiruma... So the bridal party entered, and then the flower girls... and they were so funny! They are 6, 4, and 2! One of them had to be carried down the aisle by her dad haha. And then I entered.... and .. I was bawling!! Right from the beginning! It was just so amazing, I was SO happy, and the song just made me die! I have been imagining myself walking down the aisle to that song, and to finally have it happening was too much. Many, many tears. I reached the front and hugged my also crying dad, and then I was with Erik... Our pastor, my best friend's mom, said some beautiful words to us. And we said, "I do." And then we had our readings... Colossians 3:12-17 and a quote from Louis de Bernieres.. I love this quote so I am sharing it here.
"Love is a temporary madness; it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of eternal passion. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two.”

Erik's sisters did the readings... and Kari, who read the second one, was all choked up, which made me cry a lot, plus the reading, I looove... the combo of the two was too much.

And then Pastor Barb said a short meditation on the readings we had chosen.. And I cried a lot more. She was saying how we chose a reading from literature and a reading from Scripture, and then she said that she had something to read from our own words, and read what we had said privately to her before the ceremony began.. Ours both started with "She's an amazing mother" and "He's an amazing father." The things that Erik had said were so sweet and heartfelt, and I couldn't help but to cry more... Pastor Barb said to remember these and read them because they are our own gospel... I said my vows, which I can share here sometime, but if I did it now this would be EXTRA long. Actually I didn't cry too much during my vows.. very close, but no tears. I was getting down to business, I guess. And then Erik said his vows, and then I did cry. They were so sweet and so heartfelt... Ahhh. I'll share both our vows here in another post! Mostly so I can remember them always.

Followed by exchanging of the rings... I forgot that my MOH was supposed to give the ring to Pastor Barb and not to me so I reached for it... and then I was embarrassed and buried my face in Erik. Woops! And then we lit our unity candle... we had a candle for each of us that we lit, and then we both held a smaller one and lit it for Lyla. By the way, Lyla was SO good throughout the whole thing. She was right up front with my mom the whole time.. and making lots of noises.. "Blah blah blah bah bah bah"... Right before our vows she was doing it and Erik was like, "Lyla wants to say her vows first." It was so funny :)

Then ... declared hubby and wife and then we finally got to kiss and leave!!!!! We didn't do a receiving line because of the weather and it would've had to have been outside because the church was TINY.. we fit ALMOST all 140 people inside though... some were standing in the back. Oh well. Everyone was there, that's what matters.

So then.. a trolley to the reception.. It was meant to take us to the beach for pics but, again, because of the weather, a change of plans. We went straight to the reception site for pics there. Our photographers were SO awesome and very adaptable... Lots of people can snap a cool picture, but I would say not many are so adaptable, and so involved in all the time leading up to the event. They really helped us keep ourselves moving and getting things done and getting over to the church. I really think we would have been in bad shape without them! Anyway so we had to take pictures in this random empty room, and then some other little spots for pics of just Erik and I..

Reception Details
Entered to Cemetery Walk II by Umphreys Mcgee. Sat and ate. Tried to make rounds to all the tables and failed. Hopefully I talked to mostly everyone before the night was over though. Cut the cake and tried to talk to more people.. It's just that some people talk a LOT and then before you can move other people come over to join in on the conversation so we found ourselves stuck at times.... a receiving line would have helped that a lot... oh well. Our first dance was to a live version of My Beloved One by Ben Harper.. and then we danced with Lyla to Never Alone by Lady Antebellum.... and then our father/daughter mother/son dance was to You'll be in my Heart by Phil Collins... My dad and I started the dance out and about halfway through, Erik and his mom came in. My dad was very teary eyed and saying many sweet things to me, and he is a man of few words, so I got really emotional as well.

The bouquet toss... well, first try, I tossed it and it hit this beam on the ceiling and fell to the ground. And then I tossed it too low for everyone to try and reach it, and it went straight to my friend Michelle, who was right in the front... good luck Michelle! hehe. And then ... garter toss... Erik started to do it rubber band style backwards, and the DJ said it doesn't work if you do that, but Erik did it anyway, and it worked awesome actually, but the hilarious thing was that the garter landed on a tiny tiny string going across the ceiling .. Lanterns were hanging on it.. We couldn't believe it!!!! Everyone was cracking up... One of our photographers told Erik to shake the lantern to make it come down, but the lantern just broke off.... woops. Someone threw something at it and it came down and landed in the hands of my friend Michael Cho who proceeded to wear it on his head the rest of the night. And then the dancing started. I was really busy meeting and greeting and dancing, I didn't even get to eat my cake!!!!! How sad, because I love cake. Ours was a gift from Erik's aunt!

We danced all night! Many people had too many drinks, which was quite hilarious. Our DJ did a great job and people literally danced the entire night! He said that usually doesn't happen at the weddings he does.

We got a lot of compliments on the wedding, which made me feel so great because I had put so much work into it!!!! Everyone LOVED the centerpieces, the whole ceremony... everything! We did maple syrup made by us.. well. by my dad. And a couple of other cool things.... Pictures will do them more justice than what I'm saying here.

And then... Bed! Now we're relaxing/getting ready for our honeymoon to Costa Rica.. SO excited but SO SO SO SO SO worried about leaving Lyla for a week. Not that I don't trust our parents or Erik's parents. I just worry I'll be a mess without her! And this weekend was so busy I feel like I didn't have enough time to be with her. I wish we had another week before leaving just to snuggle her! But it will go by really fast..... i think.

One of the photographers has a fashion blog that I like and she said this really nice thing about the wedding:

"It rained today. A lot. And the ceremony was supposed to be outside. Luckily the couple had a back up location! I have to say that today’s couple really touched me. They have a beautiful daughter together and their love for each other is so apparent. The way they looked at each other all day and how calm they were while the rain poured down was so amazing. I choked up a little during the ceremony, but luckily I get to hold a big camera in front of my face so no one could tell. p.s. even Kai said he got a little emotional – and that’s sayin’ a lot. I haven’t seen him cry since our wedding (he was so cute … all red faced and teary eyed at the front of that aisle)."

This just makes me a smile a lot because we don't really know them that well, and to hear that our wedding tugged at their heart strings really means a lot. Even though our wedding day is really just about us :)

Wow, blog post of the century. If you made it this far either you 1) really love me 2) really love weddings 3) don't have a life. jk.. hahah

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Camera Difficulty

For some reason, I can't get my camera to connect to my computer, which is a real shame, because I have lots of cute pictures of Lyla to upload! ARGH! Plus, my ex-roomie and I are going to start doing 365 projects together starting this first week of June! I did one last year but failed miserably, so I want to try again. I will document our first year of marriage and she will be documenting her year abroad working on a farm with her husband in New Zealand! AH! Her pictures might be slightly cooler than mine... no big deal. ;)

We are getting married in ONE week!! Things are starting to come together. I've been checking the 10-day weather report very frequently, but it seems to change every time I check it, so I guess I will just have to wait until the day of and look out the window! Now it says 10% chance of rain, a couple hours ago it said 60%. I think someone just likes to mess with people who want to try and see what the weather is going to be too far in advance....

Last night, Erik went to a bachelor party.. Not his, it was for his sister's fiance... Erik's future brother in law, I guess mine too! So Lyla and I had girls' night... Actually I was hoping she would go to bed at her normal time of 10:30 but for some reason she took a late nap and stayed up until 12:30. That's okay though, we did lots of snuggling, she was being so sweet! And then she was doing this thing where she held one of my hands in each of hers and was clapping my hands, bringing them together and apart... she was CRACKING UP, and so was I! It was really funny.

By the way, I picked up my dress yesterday! It was actually quite a stressful and rushed excursion, but we made it about 10 minutes before the place closed... Lyla was there because her dress was too big for her last week... and she took a giant poop that exploded all over her clothes. And of course, the one time we didn't have extra clothes.... we had left in such a rush that we just shoved some toys in her diaper bag! Anyway, she didn't actually end up needing anything done to her dress.. it's amazing how fast babies grow. My dress fits perfect now, too! When I first brought it in it was SO big, especially in the top, as Lyla was only about a month old when I bought it... but they did an amazing job!!!!! AHH!!!! SO EXCITING!!!!!!!

So this morning, I woke up at 7:30 and saw that the monitor wasn't on!!!! Which is so weird, because I checked to make sure it was on a million times before bed and checked the volume a bunch and sat and listened to Lyla.. I get kind of paranoid when I am sleeping by myself... I hate it!!! And it was plugged in. So i don't know what happened, but I hope Lyla was okay last night! Our place is so small that I probably would have heard her if she was crying.. at least that's what I'd like to think! I hope she didn't wake up and cry for a long time! She was sleeping peacefully this morning.. blahhh!!!!!!! Anyway, she is STILL sleeping, but I guess she did go to bed late last night.. I wish I could've fallen back to sleep, too, this would have been a perfect morning to catch up on some sleep!

This week will be hectic, but I will try to post some, and I'll try to get my stupid camera to hook up to my computer!! I'm so frustrated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday, May 16, 2011

SHORT POST!

This week I am very busy with WEDDING PLANNING (Can't it just be over yet???)

Things to do:
Put together centerpieces
Put together programs
Finish seating chart
...And other stuff. But those are the biggies!

So I was going to upload some pics from Tulip Time (although I didn't get many... Lyla hated the parade), but here is a picture of our angel sleeping! Lately she has taken to sleeping on her side, which is SO CUTE!


BABY TALK:
Lyla's recent 'sentences' and 'words'

"Boo bah boo boo boo bah"
"Ungah Ungah Uhhhh. Goo goo goo ungah"
"Gob!"
"Puh puh puh puh"
"Ah goo uh uh goo ehhh. GOO! Goo goo guh wow gah."
"Dayg" ...I think this one's a joke of some kind, she laughs when she says it ;)

Plus lots of raspberries and goo-ing while gurgling drool.

Erik said she was saying "poop" while pooping. If poop were her first word... well that would be kind of hilarious.

Friday, May 13, 2011

Tulip Time

If you aren't from Michigan, you will definitely not understand the great West MI tradition that is Tulip Time.. A week of dutch dancing, elephant ears, parades, fireworks, etc. Really, that's all I can think of. I personally don't see what all the fuss is about, but as a West Michigander, maybe some of the enchantment is gone. When I was younger, I dreamt of being a Dutch Dancer, but our school didn't have it as a club. I was oh-so sad, but now I don't feel like I missed out on too much. The dutch dancers wandering around downtown looked miserable and sweaty. Not fun.

More pictures to come but here are some pictures of our dutch baby! Neither Erik nor I are Dutch (I'm Korean he's Swedish and Norwegian), but we're getting in the spirit of our area's heritage. It really is strange how many Dutch descendants live here! How did they end up here? It's really quite a mystery. Anyway, regardless of Lyla's ACTUAL bloodline, this is her first Tulip Time and hence, it is a big deal. I'll try to post some other pics of the festivities but here are some pics of our cutie in her Dutch outfit!

BTW I'm trying out some new editing techniques... Erik always complains about how he bought me photoshop and how I still can't do anything cool, so I'm trying to up my game a little bit.






Thursday, May 12, 2011

shower shower shower

A couple shower pics!!!

The Joovy Zoom ATS jogging stroller my parents surprised us with! We are thinking about exchanging it because it has a fixed wheel and we're not sure how we feel about it yet... everything else about it i LOVE!

Lyla and her second cousin Jaxon! They were so cute together.. they really hit it off, and he was so sweet with her! He is 4!

My parents, me, Lyla and Erik

Some of my besties... Marni came all the way from IL for the shower.. and Britt was the beautiful hostess!

Our little family =)

My baby and I!

The dress is from Urban Outfitters if anyone is curious!

I don't know if you can tell in these pictures but Lyla looks like Erik. Everyone says she is a perfect mix between the two of us, but it's only because she is slightly asian looking! Everything else is Erik!

Monday, May 9, 2011

HOME SWEET HOME!

We had a long and busy weekend with LOTS OF DRIVING and now we are HOME.

Saturday we had a bridal shower at 2 pm, hosted by my amazing Matron of Honor, Brittany. We have a small family so it was some relatives, a couple family friends, and a couple friends from college. We played some games, had some deliiicccious snacky foods and opened presents, of course. Got some awesome stuff.... a BUNCH of kitchen stuff, utensils and pans and the like, a couple things from our Honeyfund... and my parents got us a jogging stroller!!! It's a Joovy Zoom or something and it is really cool... our only problem is that it has a fixed front wheel. We've taken it on a couple test runs, and it's pretty easy to make minor turns but any sharp turn you have to pick up the front wheel! We are still deciding if we love it and want to keep it. Everything else about it, I love! We'll see.

After the shower, we took off for Chicago... Actually we forgot Lyla's monkey pacifier at home so we had to go back and get it, which was half hour out of the way, and Lyla fell asleep instantly for 45 minutes... so she only slept 15 minutes into our actual drive to Chicago. But she was content as can be the whole time (can't say the same for the way back...eehhh). Erik's parents picked up Lyla near Chicago and brought her home with them to Gurnee while we went to the city to see Erik's friend's band play and to celebrate another friend's birthday! It was really, really fun to get out for a night and their band was really good!

We woke up at around 8 Sunday morning and went to visit Erik's mormor (Grandma) in a nursing home. She has dementia, which has been really sad and hard on the family. But she seemed quite happy while we were there and she smiled at Lyla and said she was cute, which made Erik SO happy. Erik's mom was able to get some good pictures of Lyla with her and Erik's morfar (Grandpa), too. I was glad to be able to be there, I only wish I had gotten to meet her before.

Afterwards we went to Erik's morfar's house and Lyla napped for 2 hours. When she woke up we went straight to Erik's sister and fiance's new apartment, which is really nice! They made lunch for a bunch of Erik's family... lasagna.. really good! You can tell that they really put a lot of thought into how they wanted their place to look... unlike our place which is filled with whatever we could find to put in it and a bunch of baby stuff everywhere haha. Someday we will have a neat and organized home...someday. ;)

Then it was about an hour back to Erik's parent's house. On Monday, Erik had a doctor's appointment at 10:30, and then we drove a half hour to have lunch at Big Bowl where Erik's mom works, and then we had to drive another hour to Erik's dentist appointment! Luckily both of these places were on our way home so we hoped it would take us less time to get home, but somehow it still took us 3 hours to finally get home. Lyla slept for awhile and then woke up SO sad.. crying and screaming, which is so unlike her! We stopped at a McDonald's and fed her and then she cheered up for awhile, but was hard to please for the last stretch of our trip. There was a ton of construction so it seemed like we were never going to get home. We were ALL so happy to finally get out of the car.

Anyway. Pictures to come! My camera cord is being temperamental so it takes forever for me to upload pics!!

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Mother's Day

I love being a mom. I love waking up and peering in at my baby while she sleeps so soundly and peacefully. I love her smile when I go to pick her up from her crib. I love snuggling her in the morning. I even love the un-fun stuff like the massive poopy diapers and the occasional crabbiness and the crying when she doesn't get what she wants. I even love when she gets us up at night, just to make sure we're still around, and then goes back to sleep. I love being a stay at home mom, even though I often feel a little stir crazy. Once I start working, I'll never be able to spend so much time with her again, so I am relishing in these moments, these days spent dedicated only to her.

Truthfully, I had never really been excited about being a mom or thought that I would be a good mom. I remember some of my classmates in my senior seminar said their greatest aspiration in life was to be a mother, and I laughed on the inside. How could that be someone's greatest life's ambition? Yet now I understand the fulfillment and the joy that only parenthood can bring, that you can only get from holding your baby for the first time, from watching her grow and from loving her every day.

Although it pains me greatly to say this, I had a very hard time after I found out I was pregnant. Every day, I tried to be happy, to be excited, and yet more than anything I was sad and sometimes even mad, and I couldn't help it or make it go away. I had big plans for myself after college... plans that became absolutely impossible with the pregnancy and our baby. I felt that some people didn't believe in Erik and I, and consequently I doubted myself every day, doubted my ability to be a mother, to take care of another person. I wanted everyone to think I was happy and never talked to anyone about how I really felt. When you are going to have a baby, you should be happy, right? And so I was depressed for 2 months, with all my thoughts and feelings swimming around inside. And then ... we heard Lyla's heartbeat. That is the moment when all my tears turned to tears of joy, when I heard my baby for the first time, when I heard that she was healthy and knew in my heart that she needed me and that I could be and would be the best mother I could be for her. This was the day I felt all the happiness I had been searching for surge up from inside.

Tomorrow might be my first official Mother's Day, but I know I have been a mother since that day, February 25, 2010. I can easily say that was the happiest day of my life (her birthday a very, very close second... Wedding will probably be up there somewhere, too haha).

Happy Mother's Day to all! Snuggle your babies today, if they're 2 or 20!

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Baby Playtime

Being a fairly young mom, I can't say I have many friends with babies and therefore Lyla has few baby friends.

But yesterday we got to hang out with Becky and her baby cuteness, Owen, who is only 2 months younger than Lyla. We get together every so often and it is so nice to have someone to talk baby to, or just talk to in general. As our babies get older, the gap between their ages becomes less and less apparent. When Owen was 2 months and Lyla was 4 months, Owen just seemed so tiny and... well, young! But they are only 2 months apart! That just goes to show how much babies learn in a couple of months.

We had a blast! Lyla and Owen handed toys back and forth... Okay, well they stole each other's toys... Lyla got mad. Owen didn't really care. They poked each other's faces, pulled at each other's hair, stared at each other and then just kind of did their own thing. Quite a fun day.

Both seem quite laid back and are definitely the observant and studious types, though Owen seems a bit more outgoing and talkative.. and he likes to head bang to music which is just the most hilarious and cutest thing ever! He also just strikes me as a very determined baby, much more so than Lyla. It's amazing how such small beings can have such huge and different personalities. I just love it! Hopefully we can have many more playful playdates as the babes get bigger.

The other day I met a mom at the park who has a little girl, Lily, born just 1 day after Lyla and delivered at the same hospital! The girls didn't get to meet because Lily was sound asleep in her stroller. But hopefully Lyla can have another baby friend someday!

In other news, I heard dutch dance music today for the first time this year.... Tulip Time is upon us! We got Lyla her first pair of wooden shoes, and I'm on the search for a Dutch outfit for her. This probably seems weird to anyone who is NOT from West Mi. We're very Dutch here... Yes, even us adopted Koreans.

Some pictures for your viewing pleasure.



A Day in the Life

A post on Lyla's typical day.

Lyla wakes up between 9:30 and 10:30 every day. She wakes up and doesn't cry, but simply makes little noises and plays with her stuffed monkey until I come and get her. She's a happy riser! We do a diaper change and put on some Aveeno Lotion for her eczema. She eats about 4.5 oz of milk. Sometimes we do a cereal feeding at around noon, but usually she just takes another bottle at 12:30 and then naps until 2 or 2:30. At around 3, she is ready for solids, and we do cereal mixed with fruit, and if she finishes that off, we'll give her more fruit, but usually she'll refuse to eat just plain fruit. Unless it's Banana Raspberry Oatmeal. That's good stuff. About an hour later she eats 4 or 5 oz of milk, and then another bottle before bed. Between 5 and 6 she'll nap again, usually for about 45 minutes, but sometimes for an hour and a half! After her evening nap, she has veggies and fruit... and again, she usually doesn't eat much of the fruit, but she loves many veggies... Carrots are her favorite right now, but she likes peas, too. It's funny because when she first started eating solids, both of those veggies made her cry. Before bed, we get into jammies after more lotion, read books, play guitar and then finally, she eats and goes to sleep. This could be any time between 10:30 and 12. Lately it's been closer to 10:30, which has been awesome!

A couple pics from our day...




Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Justice

Warning: This post has nothing to do with family, motherhood, weddings or anything fun and happy.

Some web definitions of justice:
Just behavior or treatment, the quality of being fair or reasonable

Synonyms:
Equity, fairness, righteousness

In none of these definitions do I read 'take joy in the death of the enemy.' I have watched my facebook news feed blow up with statuses celebrating the death of U.S. enemy, Osama Bin Laden. Many seem to be overcome with joy as we enter 'years of peace in a post-9/11 world.' Others proclaim how they can, after 10 years, sleep soundly at night, knowing their children are safe.

And then the other half of my facebook friends are condemning everyone else for celebrating Bin Laden's death.

Normally I don't get involved in world affairs, a shame really, and not something I'm proud of, but I feel that I should say my peace. These are simply my thoughts on the matter.

I guess I agree with the latter half of facebook status updaters. I can't say I'm unhappy that Bin Laden has died, but I'm not celebrating it either. How can we live in a 'just' world when we rejoice at death, even that of our enemies? How is that a peaceful world? Think of any crime related tv show where in the end, the bad guy gets shot. The good guy doesn't go around high fiving his friends and cheering at the downfall of his foe. The bad guy's death is followed by... really nothing, a solemn look from the good guy's face, saying that justice has been served but at the cost of a life... fade out into the good guy going about his business. Okay I actually don't watch any of those crime shows, but that's what I think would happen.

And what really bothers me is this... You really haven't been able to sleep well at night simply because Osama bin Laden was alive?? Weren't you really afraid of terrorism in general? And terrorism is a broad term encompassing a number of groups, not only Osama bin Laden. Terrorism existed before 9/11 and exists after today.

Terrorism has roots and history, from long before 9/11 but, in our recent history, culminating in the attack on the World Trade Center. The U.S.' actions over the centuries can't have helped. Something we ought to remember when pointing fingers.

Something interesting I saw on twitter.. Our tiny children are sometimes our biggest teachers

How I Saw the Death of Osama Bin Laden Through a Preschooler's Eyes

Like i said, these are just my thoughts, so agree or disagree as you will.

I wanted to post some pictures and a happy post but my camera cord is kind of broken. Maybe later.