my dutch treat...

I started this new blog to be able to write memories down right away before I forget them so they may be passed onto my children and grandchildren...
because this is right after Christmas, 2011, the first posts will be about the holidays, then we will go from there

‎#1 ok, my mom was born in Ottawa Canada, she had one older and one younger brother...when my mom was 5 years of age, her dad died of cancer leaving her mom a single mom ...of 3 small children....when my mom was 7-8 (not sure of exact age, my mom and for good reason did not like talking about this...) her mom also died but from TB...now, I do not know the reasons for anything that happened, relatives in Canada I guess they decided they could not care for 3 children and my mom was shipped off to live in Colorado...now, since I have had kids and grandkids and I can so totally relate to ages, etc. I feel so horrible for this little Canadian girl around my own grand daughter's ages who has known nothing but Canada all her life, to be torn away from the only life she had ever known and sent on a train completely by herself all the way from Canada to Colorado to relatives she had never met, nor were they particularly happy to have to take this little orphan girl...she was ripped away from her 2 brothers, never ever to see them again to live her life anew in a country she knew nothing about...I cannot imagine this poor little girl all alone on a train, leaving behind her brothers, notknowing what she was going to...especially after having just lost her mother, and also her father just a few years before...did they prepare her for what she was going to, were they nice to her? how did they explain it? there is no way on earth I could ever explain something like this to Zoe or Sian...we do not even let then in the front of the house, much less on a train all that way...I am blown away by the tenacity of what happened to a little orphan girl and it has really haunted me much of my life, especially after I had my own children and how protective I am over them...She arrived Christmas week in Colorado...with only one suitcase of belongings...Tim is researching her life for me, thru geneology sites and I so would love to better understand why and how this could happen...