Francis, my youngest son was born in the fall 1981. He is a very sociable boy, he always had a lot of friends, even when he was little. He loves everybody and people loves him as well. He is always ready to help others even if it could get him in trouble. He is in his fourth grade in high school where he is a good student. He is a very funny boy who has a great sense of humor. He can make me laugh so much, even when I am sad. He was very often at my side too, hugging me in the sad moments of my life. He knows how to enjoy life as he as a relaxed personality which he hold from his grandfather Laurier. He is a very respectful young guy and he is a great human being. Francis stay the way you are I would not change you for anything in the world
My dad, was a man who was always joyful, naturally happy. He was never going anywhere without my mom. He was agreeing with almost everything she was thinking, saying or desiring. My father was a peaceful and sweet man, but he had the conviction of his ideas. He was appreciating a good discussion with his friends and was holding strongly to what he was thinking. Never malicious, he was enjoying putting a little spiciness in his life (and others life too)! This man was always ready to help anyone who was needing a hand, and anyone who was knowing him was loving him. "Dear dad, I am missing you so much, I always will hear the sound of your voice, your laugh and I will always see your smile My father is not in this life anymore, and our mother do not remember.
These last past years were very sad for my family. We saw my mother slipping slowly in her own world. There was my divorce with my children's father a situation which is always so hard on children. And then my father who for five years had a bad heart condition and regularly was coming so close to dying. Surprisingly and happily even being so sick he was loving life so much. He always was coming out of the hospital and was even being able to go back playing bowling with his friends. My father did give me a wonderful gift in teaching me that life is wonderful and you have to love each minute of it till the end.
Last February, my sons and I were so hurt to loose him. The hard reality of life did choose us. This time it was our turn to face the sickness and death. We will never be the same now, something changed inside of us, may be this is what they call "maturity". Now we have to continue on our way and be happy with our life, having sweet souvenir about the past and never look behind with regrets. It is at least what our dad wanted for us, as he was always saying to us in the last months of his life : "Please do not be sad and please do not have the craziness to cry when I will die.I want you to tell yourself that I am happy". My Dad was really someone very special!
My sister!
February 22sd, 2002, Upgrade on Ryan & Connie's family:
March 12, 2008
Hi, my name is Carole!!!
I began this page on August 13th 1997. I invite you to share a few of my dreams and a little of my life with me. Please take the time to enjoy your visit. If I can bring sunshine in your day, it will worth the time I spent to work on this page. May be together we can develop an interesting exchange about our experiences. Please take few minutes to relax and have a good time here. OH!!! May be you will notice that I have a broken English, I heard that it is showing in my writing, the reason is that my first language is French, I am from Quebec Canada!!!
My sons!
I have two wonderful sons, whom I love so deeply. If I had to chose my children, they would be the ones I would chose. I am proud of both and I love each one of them with all my heart.
Frederic is the oldest one, he was born in the spring of 1976. He studied electronic at the college and "computer programming" at the university, he is really good at it. For him understanding computers is no more complicated than for me understanding a micro-wave. He is a very sensible guy even if sometimes he doesn't want to show it. How many times he came to console me when I was hurt and I was crying. Even now I am far away from home and he is always ready to help me. If I need him to take care of anything like bank account, government papers etc. for me in Québec he will make all his possible to help. Thank you son to always be there for me and each day talking with me on the internet. Frederic is really a family guy I am proud of the person he is.
My parents!
I have a very small family, we were only two children at home, two girls. I was very happy when I was a kid. My parents gave the best of themselves to raise us. Oh! Like everywhere else, everything was not always perfect which is normal. No one was born with that science who makes you a perfect parent. My mother was a woman with a remarkable intelligence and she was so beautiful. She was easily comparable to the most beautiful Hollywood actresses of her time. Each time she was walking on the street she was turning people's head. How was I admiring my mother, she was my idol, I wanted so much to look like her. She was a woman who always forgot about herself so she could give the most possible to her daughters instead. I will always remember how she was pampering me when I was sick. She was always checking how I was doing, preparing the food which would make me feel better. She was making a day of sickness almost enjoyable, comfortable. She was such a loving and caring mother in all the situation of my life.
Doris, my sister, is seven and a half years younger than I am. When we were kids, I was taking her everywhere with me. I was always taking her defense against anyone, even against her teachers at school hehehe!!! When she was a little girl, Doris was adventurous, she had a lot of friends (boys and girls).
With years, she was always referring to me when she wanted to have advices (even if she was not always caring about these advices)I was her confident. We did laugh a lot together at home when we were living with our parents. Now we are older, but we still have a lot of fun together. We can understand and help each other in the difficult periods or our life. These last years, we were a long time without seeing each others. That was a sad time for each one of us. Now nothing will take us apart in our mind and in our heart, even the distance :) "I love you sis and I wish you all the happiness you can have in your life".
What's new in my life?... My Love!
Last fall, on the Internet, I met a wonderful man named felix. At first and for a few months we were good friends. When we first begin to talk regularly each day, he was needing to have a someone to talk with. He was going through a very difficult time in his life. I was there to listen and help him as much as I could. It was a bad time in my life too, my dad was very sick and I was knowing he was not having a long time left. So we were both trying to help each other the best we could. With time, we were really needing to talk each day for hours. Without noticing about it, our friendship was changing, till we discover we were loving each other at least each other heart. You know that feeling when you need so much to be with the other person. So we were together on "LOL chat" the most we could. One day we were talking on the computer, Felix told me "In two weeks, be at the airport with your camera, I am going to visit you, I will spend 10 days with you. Wow!!! I was not believing what I was reading on the screen of my computer. This men will come to meet me, 3,000 miles from his home from Oregon to Quebec??? My heart began to bounce, I was like paralyzed on my chair. That trip felix made to come to see me was a decisive point in my life, in our life!!!
The Rendez-vous!
That day with my son Francis, I went to get Felix was at the airport. "Will I recognize him? He told me he would wear black clothes", but almost all men coming from this flight are wearing black clothes. How can I know which one of these men is Felix??? God please help me". Francis is with me, he is giggling he is having a great time seeing his mom in this stressing mood! But I am lucky to have him with me while I am waiting. With his sense of humor, he get my stress down a little, at least we are laughing together and he is making the atmosphere lighter. Suddenly, I see him, he is walking just in front of me, this is Felix I am sure about it. I think I recognize his eyes. These eyes that I so often looked at on the only picture I ever seen from him. This picture was taken twenty years ago huh!!! He stops a little further and puts down his suitcases. Now I am really sure that it's him, he is looking at all these people there, trying to find me. Oups!!! He saw me, I make a smile to him, he answers to me with a so nice smile... he gets his suitcases and comes to me. Magical moment, he takes me softly in his arms. Like if I wanted to make sure, I grumble "Felix"? He looks at me and answers "yes Carole, it
is me Felix". Since that day, we know we were made to make our life together. We know our love will last forever.~
My family is growing!
There is an other person that I love very much, she is Connie, Felix's daughter. She is the one that created many of my icons for this page. She has a great talent she is an artist. Connie is 21 years old and she has two lovely sons, Zackery three years old and Ronin one and a half year old. These are two little blond boys that are always running, climbing everywhere and wanting to learn about everything. There little hands like so much to touch all these buttons in their grandpa Felix's house hehehe! Connie is now my step daughter but I prefer to say "my friend". She is making me feel home here. "Thank you Connie Rae you are very kind to me" *smile*. Oh!!! I do not want to forget Ryan, that nice guy, he is Connie's husband and these two wonderful kid's dad. He is a very nice guy and a very responsible man for his little family. I love them all *smile*. There will be an other person that will add to the family. Connie is pregnant for her third baby that she will have next June. We all are in a hurry to see him or her *smile*
The dream realized!
So life is full of surprises, I am now in an other country with the man I love and our family grew up. In a few months I became the step grandma of two nice little boys. At the beginning I was not feeling very comfortable when I was hearing the words "grandma Carole" . These words were making me feel so old. But with time, I realized that here the grandmas are most of the time very young, thanks God, I can still keep my "young feeling" hahaha! When I decided to come here, I had to make a choice and it was not easy. Leaving everything, family, friends and the hardest for me, leaving my sons. Hopefully, we have Internet to communicate. But even if it was not easy, I had to follow my dreams. My life is now enriched of an other culture and an other way of living. The climate is very different too at home we have a shorter summer, a longer winter and colder too, Oregon is much more warmer. And these so young grandparents, this is the difference that surprised me the most. In Quebec in general people do not get married so young than they do here, we are older when we have our grand kids. When we become grand-parents, we most of the time are in the 50's and more, a difference of at least 10 years with here in Oregon.
The differences!
I am thinking about something else that is part of the differences... "food". We often have discussions Felix and I about many food products. Like that first time I made white beans, (I make them without any meat), - Felix told me "we can put beacon in the beans" - as soon I answered "oh! no my recipe is without any meat". In Quebec we eat these beans usually made with salted lard at breakfast time, most of the time on Sunday. He was not believing it - "eating beans at breakfast? hahaha". And the same for me, it is hard to think that here they have breakfast with steak and eggs. Same thing for my green pea soup, -"you will put ham in it?" was he saying, - "no this is a pea soup without ham" I answered. So many little things like this but like I told Felix, if one day you want a pea soup with ham, you make it and I will be happy to eat it *grin*. Talking about eating, I will give you some of my best recipes, they are not necessary from me, but I have many of my friends that are very good cook.
In November 1997, they moved in Arizona
May 27th, 1998, Nathaniel's birth, a third boy added to the family
January 4th, 2000, Titus's birth, an other son
November 22th, 2001, was born Perrin-Reigh the 5th son... This is their last baby, no try for a girl this time.
We love so much Zackary and Ronin and Nathanial, they are ansome and smart; we did not see the two last boys yet but we are planing a trip in Arizona very soon to see these new grandsons and for sure the parents.
I was surprised and happy to find this page again. There's a lot of things that happened in our lifes in the past years. First of all, Felix and I moved in New York State; After six years far away from my children, I needed to be able to see them more often. My dear husband was kind enough to see that I was missing my sons. One day in March 2003, we decided to sell almost everything we owned. We got in our minivan, which was packed to the fullest and headed East. What a trip, it took us 6 days driving between 8 to 12 hours to get at Frederic's house in Quebec.
