Butte La Rose et Les Entourage

Bonjour!

The power of prayer! I can’t emphasize enough that God heard every one.

My son Steven is healing better then we could have imagined. Today he cut up and talked with family members on the phone. His speech is improving. He has come such a long way in a short time recovering and thank you God.

We’ll find him a hospital closer to us because he will need lengthy physical therapy. And we’ll be closer and better able to watch over him. So we thank every one of you individually. Wow!

Pauline Lasseigne does not like to dust furniture although her house is very neat and clean. I finally went by visited with her last week. Her’s is the kind of life’s experiences I like to write about. And we all have a story to tell. Stories our youth need to hear.

Life has made a big turn-around in our life time. It was only yesteryear we were young and vibrant like our kids are today. Pauline and I are both 70-plus and still enjoy reminiscing about the days of going dancing at Guidry’s and the Star Club in Henderson, to name a few, during our teen years. We danced with the Henderson boys and the Catahoula boys danced with the Henderson girls. I admit there was a little rivalry going on then but all in fun.

I told her I run a damp mop on my floors every day. The tree leaves in my front yard turns black in the fall so my floors get covered with its dust from me walking in and out so much. And by mopping the dust up there is none to fly on the furniture. Kind of like my lazy way out.

Pauline’s sister, Nita Pourciaux, was also visiting when I got there. So we talked from way back when in our youth we worked in the fields. Pauline’s memory is still fresh of her picking cotton, peppers and digging up sweet potatoes. And a job she hated most was thinning out the thickened growing corn. I got to say that hard work she did back then got her to live a long and productive life, at 77 with more good years ahead. She does her own work at home.

Last fall Pauline had surgery on her right arm and is still re-cooperating. She told the therapist she is doing her own therapy at home. The fallen leaves in her front yard are making her crazy. She’d want to rake but she knows she has to heal her arm too. But Lordy look out next winter. She said she’ll be raring to go with the raking. Everything else is good though.

Her daughter Brenda (Boone) does everything outdoors for her mom. But she has also had surgery just before Pauline and is healing too. Brenda is an avid hunter. They hunt winters in Mississippi. Brenda has bagged two eight-point deer in her hunting journey career so far.

Pauline said she would have never thought her daughter would become a deer hunter because when she was little she was frail and meek. She never was one to meet a stranger and hold a conversation that never ends like her mom.

Pauline was a single mom and raised five children. Christmas was gift-less. Paying for food and rent was their Christmas. Every house she’d move her children into was like a pigpen. She had to scrub it.

Y’all say hey to Randy and Yola, Bryan and Jodi, Timmy and Janet, Brenda and Rodney and Katie and Mike. Pauline has nine grandchildren and ten greats.

Are we waiting for the spring?

Cheers to Steven and your prayers. Thank you God!

–Cousine Hélène
337-228-1714
helenboudreaux@uno.com