We are getting more and more excited about our trip to China and Lucy. Lucy was at least 600 miles away from the catastophic earthquake that struck the Sichuan Province. It is hard to fathom the magnitude of such an earthquake and the destruction it caused. Today after school, I picked up Max from daycare. We were listening to NPR on the way home, as is our custom, and Melissa Block, who is in the Sichuan Province, was reporting on a family who lost their 2 year old son and his grandparents. You can follow her heartbreaking report at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90447603. Max sat in his booster seat listening to the report. What first caught his ear was the word "soldiers." Max is truly nutty over anything military, and I explained that the soldiers in China were helping to rescue people who were hurt or trapped. He listened to the story of the couple who were searching for their child in the rubble and listened to the anguished cries of the parents. He said at the end of the segment, "That is so sad." I agree completely.
I know I have so many mixed emotions right now, and the earthquake and the aftermath only compounds those feelings. It all just seems so surreal right now. However, in the next few days we will begin our packing in earnest as we prepare to get our little girl. In the meantime, we keep the victims of the earthquake in our hearts and prayers.
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