I keep wanting to write in this blog like it is journal, forgetting that the whole world could delve into my thoughts if they wanted...
Another week! I just read a very interesting book that John found at the dump (a great red neck place to shop!). It is a fictional book written in the sixties based on the way Denmark handled WWII, particularly the Nazi attack on Danish Jews. I lent it to my father-in-law, who is Danish, to read otherwise I would post the title and author (of course, I forget :) but the book is well worth the read. I knew so little about any of the more intimate realities of the war for the Danes and I found the book very interesting. They managed to get most of the Danish Jews out of Denmark to safety in Sweden before the Germans could round them up and send them to concentration camps. And the Danish Red Cross kept such a close eye on the Danish Jews who were found and sent away to concentration camps that most of them survived. There was no looting of any of the Jews homes or possessions. In fact, the government took car of their homes, sometimes even their pets and their plants! It is really an incredible story and it made me wonder what it was about their culture that guided them to act in such a way? The book was fairly horrible in it's realities but the beauty of almost a whole culture coming together to protect people they considered to be Danes, just the same as they were and worth risking their own lives for out weighs the awful descriptions.
On a family note, we are getting some answers about Jacob's continuous coughing....I took him to the hospital yesterday and they outfitted him with puffers and are refering us to the pediatric athsma clinic. And I wondered....why did I avoid this? I think, to be brutally honest, I didn't want Jacob to be labelled as someone with asthma because it may hold him back unneccessarily. Kind of terrible... Today, he was almost completely over his cough! He has never gotten over it this quickly before. So, on the athsma journey we go! Thankfully Uncle Kris is going to be a great role model for him as someone with athsma and allergies who hasn't let it hold him back! Also, Mikaela performed in her school musical this week at horizon stage. I'll try to post a little video for Grandma if I can make it work!