Holidays - and definitely no knitting content

I am leaving, with my family, at an ungodly hour tomorrow morning (6:20 a.m.) for a sun destination. For the fourth year in a row, we are returning to St.-Martin (French side) to a rented villa, for two weeks. Yes, 14 days of Caribbean heat. I have not packed yet, other than organize my yarn to go (always the most difficult part). After having rented the same villa for 3 years, we are trying a new place (the other villa sold right after we left and the new owners have not put it on the rental market yet), just a bit downhill from where we were before.

 

It's a bit smaller, but you can hear the ocean:

 

The kitchen is really nice:

 

And this is our bedroom:

 

I know you all hate me by now -- I really need to dig it in, don't I?

I am so tired, the winter was one of the most stressful I have lived in years; my sister is getting worse. She can't talk at all now and she screams out of frustration when nobody can understand her. She has lost a lot of weight and eats very little, only liquids. She has refused to be fitted with a feeding tube (which I can understand), but she lives the agony of being a prisoner of her own body. At night, she will cry on for hours -- she needs to be moved every hour or so, and she has trouble swallowing her own saliva. Her husband refuses any help, other than a therapist who comes a couple of hours every day, and we are helpless. When people tell me we treat our own pets more humanly than we treat terminally ill people, I now understand what they are talking about.

I have finished another UFO (no photos, too busy packing) and added a couple more projects. Knitting has definitely been great stress-relief therapy for me. I know that sometime in the future, I will look back and be glad it's in the past, but when you are living it, you think it will never end.

To better days.. I hope you are all having some form of vacation or staycation and we can, in any event, look forward to what might just be an early spring, at least here in Toronto.

I may be blogging from St. Martin, we do have Wi-Fi, and make everyone sick with more photos of hot, sunny weather. I think every Canadian should be entitled to at least a week of paid vacation in the sun to reward us for the awfully long and cold winters we have to endure!

Comments

[Cynthia]

I hope you have a great time Manon. It looks unbelievable. Sorry to hear about your sister; ALS is such a horrible illness. The sun and relaxation will be great for you. Be safe.

[Keana]

enjoy! you deserve it! come home safe.....most of all RELAX!