mijan | Three Holidays and a Funeral

I'm going to be out of touch for the next few days. Yes, I'll check my e-mail on my godmother's computer, but I'm going to be far too distracted and busy to hang around the computer. The morning after Christmas, we got a phone call from my godmother, letting us know that my grandmere is fading fast. She's 94, and we were expecting this, but it's never easy when it happens.

She's still alive as of this morning, but they don't expect her to last until New Years. At this point, she's stopped eating, and she's barely responding. She lived a wonderful life, so this isn't a tragedy, but she *is* my last living grandparent, and she and I were always very close. Yesterday morning, she asked for my mother to come, and now, we know that she's basically waiting for us to arrive, to see us one more time. My mother is her only child, and my sister and I are her only grandchildren. She has a lot of nieces and nephews though, and many cousins. We have a large extended family, but a very small immediate family. Still, we're Acadian - to us, family is family. It'll be okay.

So, we're leaving in about 5 minutes for Nova Scotia. We'll be driving up through Maine, into New Brunswick, and then we'll take the ferry from St. John to Digby, Nova Scotia. From there, we'll drive south to the village that my family is from. It's about 25 minutes drive east of Yarmouth, for anyone who knows the area. We'll be okay, the weather is supposed to be fair, and we have three capable drivers. I just want everyone to know where I'll be, so that nobody wonders.

Take care, and I hope everyone has had a good Solstice and Christmas, is having a happy Hannukah, and will have a happy New Year.

*hugs*
~Michelle