Remebering 9/11

I remember every minute of that day and what I was doing and where I was at.  I was at our first house in Carthage about a month or so after we had moved back from Salt Lake.  Tristan was just barely a month old and I had just made breakfast for him and was putting him in his high chair when my sister Susan called me from her salon and told me to turn on the news.  Scary, scary stuff!  I immediately said some prayers and wished I could talk to Jeremy. We didn't have cell phones at the time and he was at school at Western Illinois University in Macomb.  He heard about it there on campus.  I remember the gas stations being packed and the price of gas skyrocketing.  It was an awful day but united the country in a way I had never seen. 

Blizzard + Bed = Babies

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) -- Some hospitals in the Peoria area are reporting a baby boom nine months after a record blizzard hit Illinois.
The Journal Star reports Wednesday ( http://bit.ly/sRy3jk ) that there were 60 births in at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center last week, compared with an average of 25. That's a 140 percent increase. Pekin Hospital also saw three times the usual number of newborns during on Oct. 21. The hospital had a 37 percent increase in babies born in October.
A blizzard blanketed central Illinois
with 15 inches of snow on Feb. 1.