Home Again

We arrived home from our four days away and the dish washer was running, the kitchen was clean, the garden was watered and Carter had washed and folded at least four loads of laundry. Oh, she also took an AP exam today. We have no idea how the exam went, but leaving Carter home alone to take care of Shay went great.  
“I love living alone!” was what Carter told us. She certainly is her father’s child.
With the days counting down that she will be with us I hate to leave her home alone, but I am thrilled that we came home to no problems.
Russ asked me if I wanted to go back to a Florida, already knowing what my answer would be. I love spending time with Russ, but Florida is no North Carolina. Also Russ had to work today so I had to entertain myself. After dropping him off at the clients I had a couple of hours to kill so I went to the Florida Holocaust Museum. It is a small museum committed to keeping the story alive with photos and artifacts, because someday soon no one will be alive who survived the horrific period in history and we must never forget.
It was a well thought out little 25 year old museum. The scariest part is the section describing Hilter’s first 100 days in office. There are parallels to be made. As many Jews in the films in the museum said, “If we don’t remember history we are destined to repeat it.” I am praying that is not going to be the case.  

One thing I learned about that I never knew was about the ship the MS St. Louis. In May of 1939 it left Germany for Cuba with 937 Jewish passengers. They were denied entry into Cuba, denied entry into the US and sailed back to Belgium. They were at sea for over a month and the U.K., Belgium, the Netherlands and France divide them up as refugees. Except for the ones who went to the U.K., most were murdered in the concentration camps. They so easily could have been saved if the US had just accepted them as refugees. Are we repeating history right now?

I will be interesting to visit a carter in Germany after her semester there and see what she has learned. I know she already can do laundry and cook.