This is the blog I have written so many times in my head over the last year. I had planned the direct approach, thinking it would be better for me to say the hardest part first – My Mom has died. But even after writing it now, I still find it hard to believe and certainly not any easier to say. This day has come the long way around, with my Mom fighting far longer than anyone had thought she could or expected her to, mainly because of the faith she had, and her sheer will.

I always start my blog by saying it is a snap shot into life with the Carr’s for any given week and it is, but if you are a regular reader you would have to have noticed that some of my bits are just random thoughts and things that go through my head. You see when I am old and in a home and shouting out random words like “Colour” or “Squirrel”, I figure, at least the doctors can jump online, do some reading and say “Well it all makes sense now!”

Another Labour Day, and yet another first day of school for ¾ of our household. It was also Nathalie’s first day back at work since before we left for New Orleans, so a big day in the Carr household for sure. The girls got to meet their new teachers, and although the teaching assignments did not work out for the little one, quite as she had originally hoped, in the end and after some discussion, everyone is happy with the arrangements.