Hi all! It is a beautiful day here. Sunny and really warm for us. Everyone is a little quieter today because of the mall shootings. I have been there many times! We went there when I was a kid, we take DD there, Steve and I go with friends. It has movie theaters and great restaurants. An 18 year old shot and killed 5 people, he was killed. There are 4 more in local hospitals. He shot everyone he saw until an off duty police officer from another city left his wife to go engage the suspect. They are saying he saved dozens of people by taking the gunmans attention away and taking him on himselft. The officer had a gun battle with him until swat arrived and the gunman was killed.
Obviously Savannah has heard a lot of this and told Steve this morning that she was scared, so we are reassuring her that everything is safe. This is hard to do when I don't believe it myself. I can only imagine those poor families who were eating together at the spagetti factory are dealing with. When they brought the little kids out of the restaurant after the shooting was over, they asked the media to back away and moved the cop cars away so they would not further traumatize these children who saw the bodies and the killer.
My heart just aches for the families of those killed. One was a 15 year old girl... I am just heart sick today and I cannot get rid of the pit in my stomach.
i gotta go take more painkillers...
The folks in Crested Butte, Colorado had tunnels under the snow between their houses in those years. 
Are you all snuggled under blankets keeping warm or out shoveling out?
They will have goodie bags when they get home. DD wouldn't eat anything but chocolate if I gave that to her when she got up. DS would just say...that's not healthy for breakfast...and eat his waffles. LOL!
