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This is just amazing. To have it updated already to read “1970 to 1977. Demolished by terrorist attack on September 11, 2001”. (Found over at davezilla.com.)

Michelle’s son’s teacher’s husband (that sounds awkward…) worked in the World Trade Center. So hard to explain this to children. She has so many other connections, friends & family, right in the heart of this all. I am praying for them.

Robyn has photographs of herself & her husband at the top of the building. Thank God that by some miracle her friends who work in the World Trade Center stayed home today.

And it continues on.

I thought I would share these links that I was sent through a Mom’s group. Our kids are very exposed to the media these days, so these might be helpful in the weeks to come: Talking with Kids About the News, Helping Children Understand Crisis and Trauma, Talking to Children about Violence, How to Talk to Your Children About the News.

I wrote a longer post earlier, but my computer lost it. Hmmm… oh well. I don’t think I could rewrite it. I am just happy to be alive and want to go home and hug my son.

Phones are jammed in New York right now, and probably all along the Eastern seaboard. I can’t call my friends on their cell phones. I was just wrapping up reading the posts at Saranwarp, all of which leave me stunned in a surreal sense. It is amazing though that they can still get e-mail, and people in Manhattan are on IM right now. As she put so well… “kind of strange that the internet, initially a military endeavor in case something like this happened, is now proving itself.” Wow.

Amazing how things that seemed so important yesterday have suddenly become so trivial. I just want to hug everyone I know and thank God that they are ok.

Saranwarp, East/West, Ultrasparky, SuperHyperDemonChild, Andy’s Chest (Last four links found thanks to Pamela, down here in Texas…)