Aiden: Sept. 11, 2011

He had strep and spent the day on the couch.

We watched the coverage on Good Morning America of the 9/11 Memorial wrapped in blankets.

It was so hard.

He asked  a lot of questions & because he was sick and has NO ATTENTION SPAN, I wasn’t overly concerned he would be be emotionally scarred.

I needed him to watch this because I wanted to be the one to shape his initial memory of 9/11/2011. I wanted to make sure it had nothing to do with anyone else’s agenda. It was a sad time, many people died and we must remember in order to honor their sacrifice.

When he’s older he can learn the details but for right now that was enough.

Robin Roberts from Good Morning America was explaining the thought process that went behind the placement of names on the memorial. Requests for co-worker names to be placed together were honored in order for friends to remain “together” .

Aiden looked at me , his eyes filled with tears, and said “ if that was your name on those stones Mom, I would bring you a pillow and blanket from home and sleep there so you would never be alone”.

AFTER I finished balling like a baby.

I promised him I wouldn’t ever leave him. BUT if I DID : I wanted him to promise me to live a long happy life and one day he when he was home sick with his child he would laugh and remember his MOM and then it would be like I was always there.

He promised. I cried. Then we made some breakfast.