September 11, 2001 started out as a beautiful day here in Lansing, Michigan. Chris went to work, and I loaded the boys up in the car to take them to our regular Tuesday MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) meeting, which started at 9:00 am at a church in East Lansing.  I had the radio on, and at 8:45 I had just exited the highway and was turning onto the road towards the church when I heard the song suddenly stop and Dan Rather say he had breaking news. It was 8:46 am and the first plane had just hit the World Trade Center. I remember thinking those poor people in that plane, I hope they didn't realize what was happening, it must have been some kind of horrific plane malfunction or pilot error or something. We got to the meeting.  A few people were saying they had heard the story on the radio too, about a plane in New York, but we all just thought it was a terrible accident. No one had any idea what was really going on, so we just had our meeting as usual. Driving home around 11:45 … [Read more...]