So, this morning, I’m blithly watching the Today show, like I do most mornings. This morning, they’re covering the aftermath of the California mudslide. They’ve got news this morning: They’ve recovered the bodies of a mother and her 3 children.
Now, to give you a background: I’m lying there in bed with the youngest of my three children. They’ve got the father on the screen, and he’s showing off his leather jacket, where his six-year old girl imprinted her “paws” in green paint on the front: “These are Raven’s paws.” he says, and I just break down.
It’s hard to think about something like this: Over 100,000 people lost their lives in the tsunami disaster in Indonesia in the last couple of weeks, and here I am, waking up my 2 year old girl so I can give her hugs, and potentially never let her go.
There’s a memorial fund for the Wallet family:
Womack Wallett Memorial Fund
Santa Barbara Bank & Trust
P.O. Box 60645
Santa Barbara, CA
93160-0645
(888) 400-7228
I found the story I watched online at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6821292/