Hey everyone, with communications being down I’ve been able to email a few people I couldn’t call so I decided to set this up as a way for the family to communicate. Just add your comments below. -Kellen
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Hey everyone, with communications being down I’ve been able to email a few people I couldn’t call so I decided to set this up as a way for the family to communicate. Just add your comments below. -Kellen
To All My Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and Friends,
I did not get Christmas cards out in the mail, So here are my Christmas wishes for you all:
May you enjoy each others company
May you have laughter, fun and glee.
May you find strength for every task
and your heart be filled with peace that lasts.
May you have sweet rest upon your beds,
and blissful thoughts in your heads.
May you have sun and shade in equal measure,
and precious moments with those you treasure.
May all your pockets be filled,
and all your fears be stilled,
and all your hurts be healed.
May angels guide you as you come and go,
And most of all, may you know,
Peace on earth, Goodwill toward men.
My love and God’s blessings to you all,
Amy
My heart goes out to all of you that are displaced and have lost so much; especially Aunt Irma and Uncle Oliver. It’s wonderful how the family has rallied around each other. Everyone was so supportive when Aunt Grace died, and then Katrina hit, and then Aunt Rena passed on. What I don’t understand is why when I called my mother today to wish her Merry Christmas she was in tears because once again, my mother decorated her house and bought gifts for family members that couldn’t be bothered to go an extra fifty feet from Larry’s house (which they stop by every year) to my mother’s. She has years of Christmas presents sitting in her closet that her family never picked up. I had hoped that after such a show of family solidarity in the wake of the recent disaster this behavior would finally change and my mother would no longer feel ostracized by her blood relatives. Now without her best friend, Aunt Grace, my mother is surrounded by family members who shun her for no reason. My one wish for Christmas was to call my mother and not have her crying. That wish was not fulfilled. I don’t understand why my mother is treated so cruelly. To the rest of you I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year.
Sincerely,
Deirdre
To Whom It May Concern:
I am finally doing a little better with my health, so I thought I’d check out the family website to see if anyone had any news etc. Unfortunately, I have been quite ill and so has Larry and most of our family. Since Katrina, I have had three bouts of pneumonia. I had a lung function test and I am down to 48% lung capacity and my pulmunologist tells me that will never improve. Anyhow, I worked and worked and shopped and shopped to find the special gifts for everyone in our family, especially my beautiful grandaughter, Hailey and grandchildren, Amber and Austin. Then Christmas Eve, all of our children except Troy and most of the grandchildren and great-grandchildren came over as they do every year. We had worked so hard to prepare food and snacks and desserts for Christmas Eve and had a 20 pound turkey in the oven and a ham in the oven for Christmas Day. I was so tired all day and had a really hard time making it through the night but all in all we had a very nice visit with the kids. Brett and his family, Kellen, and Alicia and her family decided they wanted to wait until Christmas Day to open our gifts together. Then low and behold, Christmas morning came and I woke up with a sever stomach virus and spent the entire day in the bathroom and bed. So I was unable to either open my gifts or watch them open theirs. By late afternoon, Larry and Kellen brought me to the Emergency Room and I was dehydrated and my potassium was low, so they gave me two bags of I.V. fluids, something for the nausea and diarrhea. So, then, by the next day I was better, but weak as a kitten and Larry came down with it. He stayed pretty ill for several days. He saw a surgeon a couple of weeks ago and his Aortic Aneurysm is now 4.8 cm and they said they want to check it again in three months. Once it reaches 5.0 cm, they will operate. Larry is now feeling better and has been cutting as much fire wood as he could, since there are so many trees down, he is taking advantage of it while he is able
We have some wonderful news. Our daughter, Alicia is expecting her second baby on August 11, 2006. By then, Hailey will be 22 months old and quite ready for a little brother or sister. Please keep them in your prayers that both Mother and baby are safe and healthy.
Now on to other things:
Not meaning to offend anyone deeply but there are some issues I must address. Ordinarily I wouldn’t address them on this website as I feel it was created to post news and communicate with one another, not post unwarranted complaints about non-existant situations. When Hurrican Katrina came through, we opened our doors for anyone who needed or wanted a place to stay, and also offered day time assistance to those who were unable to cook etc. We geniunely pulled together as a family as we all should and did the best we could to handle a very difficult situation. After four days of suffering in the heat without the luxeries we were used to, we found out our friend in Illinois has died from lung cancer and decided to leave and make a trip to his funeral. Our son, Kellen had made a trip home on Thursday evening and brought supplies he thought any of us might need and offered shelter to family members. My niece in Baton Rouge also offered shelter to those who needed it, so my son-in-law took his daughter, Hailey, our grandaughter, Cara and Aunt Melba and Aunt Vera to my niece’s house in Baton Rouge. My daughter, Alicia and my son, Brett were working 24/7 that week only catching an occasional nap when they could. They got to come home and see us for about one hour. Our son, Kellen, set up this website to communicate any news of how family members and their homes faired etc. and I believe everyone really appreciated it. He also took our grandson, Justin and his Aunt Lynne and Uncle Cloice to Lafayette to stay at his apartment until they could get a flight to L.A. He even offered to have a friend bring them to the airport since he had to work when they were leaving, but they told him he had done enough and they could take a cab. He did this very willingly and caringly, I believe. While they were away, Uncle Larry kept an eye on things at Lynne’s house, kept her car running and made several trips to her house just to check on things as did her niece, Laurette. When they returned, we went over and welcomed them home with open arms and told them how much we missed them. Since then, I don’t believe that either of them have visited our house one time. Larry has been over there a couple of other times. Their Christmas gifts are still sitting under the tree. We usually make the rounds on Christmas Day and visit Lynne and Cloice, Grace, and Melba and Vera and bring their Christmas gifts. Unfortunately this year our poor Grace had gone home to heaven shortly followed by her dear sister Rena. Then with our illness, we were unable to visit anyone. So anyone who did not visit us did not see us. When Melba and Vera came by Christmas morning for a few minutes to see why I wasn’t at church, they said they had to get on home and make gumbo and dinner so Lynne could either come and eat with them or bring some to her, but now they tell Larry that they called over and over again and got no answer on the telephone. Melba is 87 years old and Vera is 80, I believe. Forgive me if I am wrong on that account and I believe they do their very best to treat all their siblings fairly and equally. On more than one occasion I have seen them turn into Lynne’s driveway and not come here, but neither Larry, nor I was upset by this in any way.
I guess what I am trying to say here is that I apologize to those who may wonder what my whole point is, but I am answering the previous entry of how Lynne spent Christmas Day in tears and has years of gifts in her closet. If that is the case, maybe she should do like I do. If I have something for someone and after a certain period of time passes, they fail to come and pick them up, I open them up and either use them myself, or give them to someone else. My other point is that I believe Kellen created this website to share needed information with each other, not as a sounding board for people to express their displeasure with others. If one of us has a beef with someone, I feel it should be handled directly not for the general public to read, so after I make this entry, I am going to ask Kellen to remove this website. I feel when it has come to the point that dirty laundry has to be aired online, it’s time to remove the website, so to those of you who have enjoyed reading most of the entries and hearing from one another, I apologize. I wish you all a wonderful 2006 and I’m sure you, like Larry and I, will keep Irma and Oliver in your prayers for their recovery from Katrina. I hope and pray their home will be restored to its original beautiful state and that in the process, their health holds up. I’m sure they are working very hard along with their children and grandchildren and others who have helped them. After all that has gone on, we have alot to be thankful to our dear Lord for. And one of those things was our ability to communicate with one another in our time of need. I will really miss reading all of your news and will give you my email so that you can write us if you’d like to. Oh, and one more small thing I would like to mention. If you are the child or grandchild of any of my husband’s siblings, then his name to you is Uncle Larry – not Larry. If you don’t have enough respect to address him as such, then you don’t need to address him at all. My email address is: pflott@charter.net
Peggy
I just got home and read what was on the website. I agree whole-heartedly with what my mother said in her post. I won’t take the site down yet but if I feel it is being abused I will. It was my intention to eventually create a better site to replace it with where people could continue to share with one another. I think it’s sad that some feel the need to complain and make veiled accusations here. It goes completely against the spirit in which I intended it.
I don’t know what Deirdre thought she would accomplish by her website posting on the 27th of December. I know what she did accomplish, letting the world see blatant disrespect and a severe case of paranoia.
Uncle Lawrence
Deirdre….my only comment is….DO NOT FORM A OPINION until you are here seeing this with your own eyes.I am very offended, everyone here has gone through so much, and we ALL helped one another. Were you home with your Mom at Christmas?I just cannot believe that you even thought about such. Aunt Lynne has never been shunned!!!!And notice…I said “Aunt”.I thought I would never get on this site and read such negative comments. That is not what this was intended for. Everyone has expressed their feelings and love for the other. I think we are a great family….you should spend a little more time with your mom and family and you will find that out. I am so sorry for everyone who reads this….it’s just that I am hurt when someone turns something positive into something negative….and I could not just let this go….this site served as a lifeline…..it was nice to come on and read about our family….to find out everyone was ok and to touch base with those who are not here that are praying for everyone’s recovery from the storm…when things seemed hopeless, at least we had this site to get on and read and know that we had each other, but now it won’t be here anymore….whoever is interested, my e-mail is rbethg@yahoo.com…. Beth (yes, I have issues about this, and it hurts my feelings)
To all the Webers,
Our last entry on the website:
Happy Birthday to Kellen on 1-23-06.
Love and our prayers for you on your “silver jubilee”!
Aunts Vera and Melba
Hello to all and Happy New Year!
Happy Birthday Kellen!
Amy’s family also has several MILESTONE birthdays in January: Chad, Sr on 1/2, Jules(21!)on 1/13, Chelsey (18!) on 1/17 and her eldest Alysa will be 30 (don’t tell her I told you) on 1/26.
Glad to see the site is back to happy tidings, sorry to see it go. Love to all, see you soon-
-gina