to lauren, julie, jennifer, roula, lisette, alex...
this comes a bit late, but it only just occurred to me to come look on livejournal (i always forget about it :o(). i just wanted to say that my thoughts have been with you over the past two weeks, and will continue to be so in the coming ones. i feel that it would trivialize the situation and my feelings as well as yours to say too much right now. so i will just update you on my relatives... my grandmother was already in boulder, colorado, when katrina hit... my aunt molly gave birth to twin baby boys - grant and mcneil - and she went to be with her and the babies. molly has asked me to be grant's godmother. my uncle carl went to new orleans and brought my grandfather back to texas with him. my aunt sandy and uncle mcneil and their children (katherine and john) went to baton rouge. sandy is working at the oschner hospital there. they have gotten an apartment and put katherine and john into school there... katherine is at st. josephs, where my another cousin, jessica, graduated. i don't know where john is in school. my grandparents arrived in pensacola yesterday, and will be staying with my mom for an indefinite period of time. i think that all of my aunts and uncles will probably advise them not to move back to n.o. at all. my mom is engaged now to her longtime boyfriend, erik. garrecht and beau both just started college - garrecht at furman in north carolina and beau at the university of central florida in orlando. garrecht hurt his foot on one of the first days of school, and now he has to get surgery! (he tore the tendon to his fourth toe). life in tennessee goes on as usual.