Long time!

Sorry to have been so long with the posting but...to use a really bad expression, where does the time go? My daughter graduated grade twelve and is leaving in the fall, my son graduated from grade nine and is heading into high school. And he's my baby. My middle girl is going into grade twelve so she has one more year. Although, I've been told by many parents that kids these days don't leave forever. The continually return to the nest--to use another bad expression.
So many things in the news lately. One is the family in Calgary found dead in their home in Dalhousie. And in the home was a 30 year old woman who was just renting from this family. How sad. How horrible. How will her parents cope. I think, what if that was my daughter. She was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Why? And why did the man snap. He must have snapped. What makes that happen to someone? From all the reports, he sounded like a good guy. I guess in some way, we're all capable of snapping. What an absolutely frightening thought. And then to top it all off, a one-year-old girl lived through this mess. She was spared. I think about her, and what she will be like when she gets to be 14 or so and is completely aware of what her father did to the rest of her family. A family she will never have, never get to know.
Okay...so this tragic incident has caused many of us to think. Then we have Paul Bernardo back in the news. The guy is still a psychopath but he's alive while many others are dead. And his lovely ex-wife Karla, from what I've read, is living somewhere in the Caribbean and has a baby boy. Another baby who when he gets to be 14 will say, "Mom, I heard something about you today." Does she think he will never find out?
Paul Bernardo in his interview said, "I made a few mistakes." I made a few mistakes!!! Is that what Karla will tell her boy. "I made a few mistakes."
How do that couple get to live after they took so many lives?
Okay, so this is a depressing blog.
Sorry. When the weather gets nicer here in Calgary, I'll think happy thoughts.