HOPE

What can we do to help Newtown, Connecticut??

With the intense media coverage of the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary we feel the need to do something.

Perhaps we need to push a bill to ban personal ownership of automatic and semi automatic assault weapons...

Perhaps healthcare could focus more on those with mild to extreme mental health or mental stability...

Perhaps we need to make our communities, towns, villages and cities more proactive...

We need to know our neighbors and our neighborhoods better....

Its time to begin the healing process....

Its time to honor those children and teachers. 

Its time for positive-random acts of kindness in their honor

Its time for HOPE and KINDNESS to shine brightly......

My girls giving a shadow of love to the kids of Sandy Hook

but momma they're kids just like me.....

When Cookie, Sweetheart, Fifi and Bam came home from school on Friday they had already heard about what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary school via the teachers,  smart phones, and from other students. This was the buzz...

They were sad for the murdered children and teachers from Connecticut.

It was true, I told them.

We talked about it the horrible, terribly awful thing that happened in Newtown, Connecticut.
Cookie and Sweetheart said, "But Momma, they're kids just like me. Why did he do that to kids??"

My heart tore...

I had to try to explain mental illness to my elementary school, middle school and high schooler...... People who suffer from mental illnesses have moments when they do not think like you or me. There is something in their brain that does not allow them to comprehend reality, common sense,or humanity; there is often a blurred definition of good or bad to them. Sometimes they know they suffer from mental illness and sometimes they don't know...

It's ALL so hard to explain.
The heart break is real.
Even though we're over 2,000 mi away, it still doesn't make it any easier to tell a child.

We hug, we shed a tear and we say a prayer...