My Favorite Month

September is an important month to me not just because my birthday is the 1st ;) but also because it is the birthday month of several individuals near and dear to me: my husband and my mother. My mother's birthday is also shared with a very devastating and tragic event that continues to affect our country years later, and I'm sure for many years to come. That date, of course, being September 11th.

I don't think that there is a person in the United States who doesn't remember where they were and what they were doing when the Twin Towers were hit. I was getting ready for work when my mother called me and told me to turn on the news; an airplane had just hit one of the twin towers. Of course from there came the others; I could not peel myself away from the television. Was I really seeing this? When I arrived at work, they too were all gathered around listening and watching, trying to understand who and why.

We live so far away, here in New Mexico, from where this terrorist attack took place but it felt like our own backyard. I was still in college in 2001 and learned that one of my classmates had lost a family member on 9/11. When you talk to someone who has actually lost a loved-one in an attack that occurred so many miles away, it brings into perspective that the world really is a little place and that we are all affected by one another. The attack occurred in one area of our great country violating us all and leaving us feeling as though someone had broken into our own home.

I apologize if I have put a damper on anyone's day by reading this portion of my blog. I felt it important to take the time to recognize and remember the many lives lost and affected in so many ways by the events that took place on this day in history. And I believe that it is important to never forget such events as this, because when we forget, history repeats itself.

On a happier note, September also houses Green Sticky Note Day (mine & my husband's special day), is the beginning of my favorite season, autumn, which I absolutely love for the perfect weather and for all the beautiful colors. The same colors that I plan to decorate our house in (but that's another project on my list of many ;) And finally, September marks the one year anniversary of the start of my business.

~Persistence is the key to long-term success!~