March 1, 1999 5:30 A.M.

Good morning

2 1/2 months, yikes

Lots has been happening. Pierre’s Grandfather passed away (mother’s father). He was 83. He lived a full life and was mostly healthy. Pierre and I went to the wake Thursday evening. I met a lot of his relatives. Most weren’t grieving since the man had a good life and lived to a decent age. I think the tears may have been while he was sick the week before and at the funeral. I met the man only a couple of times thus I don’t have much else to say about this.

I was up about 4:30 this morning. Pierre was off to work. One of those mornings where I can’t get back to sleep. Didn’t really try though but I know......I wouldn’t have been able to sleep right away and the next thing ya know Brandon would be up pestering me. So......what’s 2 hours sleep and then getting up and feeling shitty when I’m already up and I don’t feel too bad. That’s the way it is most of the time. If I go back to sleep I usually don’t feel like I got any extra sleep.........so....why waste that time, right?

Today, I will be going to my Dad’s house for a little bit. Then I’m off to Christina’s house to sew. She sewed the sleeves on the flower girl dress. There’s a hem and the zipper left to do, as well as putting lace on it and a little flower in the middle of the collar. Not a lot. Might take half an hour or so. She wants to take it to the a professional to put the zipper in but......I’m willing to give it a try though. I see her point but......if you don’t try then you will never know. Oh.......her point is since this is expensive material she don’t want to screw it up now and this stuff is puckering a bit in the seams. So.....she is afraid it will pucker when we put the zipper in and to take it out again is going to wreck the material.

Dad called me to tell me 2 things the other day. One is he made the wine for the wedding.........so i don’t have to worry about that. The other is.........he won.......a brand spanking new........Dodge, Dekoda truck!!! Isn’t that the coolest. Well, I suppose you would think it would be much cooler to win something like that yourself. But......I didn’t and he did so that makes it still totally awesome for me. I offered to go with him and his wife to Toronto to pick it up so I could drive his neon back home for him. Pierre was pretty happy for Dad too.

The invitations are in. Almost forgot to tell ya. Pierre asked his best man, Art to be his best man. I told Art it was now his responsibility to get Pierre to the store for tux’s. he he And I don’t know if I told ya but he has asked Stephane to be an usher. Stephane is a French it is pronounced Stef_an (in English or that’s how us English people say it). Pierre says one of the reasons he picked Stephane is because he is fluent in French and that’s good since all those relatives I met last week are French and speak little to none for English. Only a few can speak English.

Lastly, I shall mention the boys. Brandon went to the movies with a friend yesterday. It was his first time watching something on the big screen. He went to see my favorite alien. Brandon sometimes is a hellion in the mornings so Pierre had a chat with him about that. He has Josh to keep notes and when Pierre is here on the week-ends he is gonna deal with whatever is on the list. Next, Robert is probably going to go to French immersion. He has been recommended for it and I got a letter saying basically he will be going. However, he has been caught with candles in his room, last night is the third time. He was told about the dangers i.e. the house burning down and killing us all. I gave him shit about it the first time I caught him with them, the second time I went into the stuff about killing us and this time Pierre did. I totally wanted to tan his little ass but didn’t. Anyway, I told him (since he wants to go to French Immersion really bad) that if he got caught again he wouldn’t be going to French Immersion. That leaves Josh. Pierre had a chat with him about being a bully to his brothers and how his temper is gonna get him into trouble. Pierre says they had a good chat. Will try to keep up on what is going on with the boys when I write here from now on.

have a good day
lots o’ love
Christine

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