While hopping around other blogs this morning, I realized that I’d not yet posted photos of my lovely family. I’ll take care of that right now.
In case we’ve not yet met, I’m Sandra, aka Mom, the adult male is Mark, often called Dad. The kids are Sam and Cj. At the moment, I’m 55, Mark is 40, Sam is 4.5 years old and Cj is 25 months. We live on Mahé, the biggest island in Seychelles … big being 4 miles wide and 17 miles long … near the village of Baie Lazare.
Now that that’s done, I’ll get back to writing.
A collection of my short stories:
I'm in this one, too ...
And I'm in here, as well ...
Paradise Preoccupied 
Hi thanks for dropping by my blog. Lovely kids u have there!
Beautiful family.
Thank you, thank you.
What a beautiful family! I am so jaleous when I see all 4 of you in such beautiful warm water!
I broke a deal with (my) Mark…no big party, no presents for my 40th…a holiday in Seychelles.
On the agenda…
Denis Island for sure
Alphonse? a dream of many years
Desroches? a dream of many years
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Mahé…meeting you guys?
Your kids are just soooooo adorable!
I guess I found Bhavishya a fiancé… Sam 😉
Greetings from Rainy Luxembourg
Certainment! We’ll fix you a great birthday dinner. When is your 40th?
Fiance? We’ll have to let them figure that out!
God, I had no idea real people actually lived in that beautiful part of the world. I’m envious.
Rhea,
I’m not at all sure that we are “real people”. I’m fairly convinced that my hubbie is a figment of my imagination somedays, and my kids are almost too good to be true.
Love the pics–CJ is a cutie and Sam is such a “big boy” now…no more toddler! Keep that champagne chilled, we will get there one of these days!
Gosh your kids are gorgeous! Nice choice with the living location. As soon as our 400K of medical school debt is repayed, we’d love to crash the party and join you all out there!! Course, we’ll be a LOT older than 40 or 55 by the time that actually happens:)
Hi Sandy. It’s your old Harllow’s buddy. And I do mean old. Sometimes I feel ancient. But most of that is my own falt, given what I did to my self in earlier years.
I think about you from time to time. Decided to see if I could find you on the web and here you are…with a good man and a good cause. The world could use a lot more women like you. And not just because of that. I’ve always thought you were a good person…the bees knees so to speak.
Been working on a cause of my own for about ten or twelve years now involving the gentler gender and my beleif that if the world is ever going to be at peace and the human race is going to survive, woman are going to have to take more responcibility and hold more positions of power in matters of polotics, buisness and relilgion…and other things that are important to a TOTALLY free and happy world. Men have been at it for thousands of years and are obviously not that good at it. It’s time to let the girls have a shot at it. I know, without a doubt, that with their way of thinking, better solutions to the problems that continue through the ages could be found.
Of course that presupposes that these women would be coming from their femaninety and not from a part of them that thinks she has to conform to a male’s way of thinking. And while I’m on the subject…uhoh…somebody stop me…I want women to understand…and believe…that being a house wife and a mother is as important a job as any if that’s what she chooses to do.
Ok, I’m done for now.
I want to know how it is with you. Are you realy happy? You look like it and I am very happy for you. I’ve finally settled, for the fourth and final time. I spent a lot of years watching old folks walking hand in hand and beleiving that that wonderful aspect of life would never be possible to me – going into old age with someone that you have a whole life of history with.
Up until a year ago, I had been alone for about twelve years and began praying that I could have someone understanding, at least for the last few…and low and behold…look what God dropped in my lap…litterly. Someone I have known for almost the entire sixty three years of my life. Jann and I have always been close and very impotant to each other – although at times we didn’t know it – and let years go by without communicating.
Picking up where we left off, after her husband, Michael, whom I realy liked, died of a sudden heart attack, seemed so natural and one thing led to another. We will be married on 7 – 7 – 07 at lake Tahoe in a beautiful cabin we’ve rented for a week. I have a friend who is from Italy and owns a house in Naples overlooking the bay. From there you can see Mount Esuvious. He said we could go there for our honeymoon but we had already commited to the cabin. Maybe next year.
Well, Sandra Hanks Benoiton, I hope you will choose to write to me and tell me of your life. As I’ve said, I have thought about you over the years and would very much love to hear from you. Your friend always…Steve
Hello Sandra,
This would be my second post tonight to your site.
I am very happy to have kept on reading your blog. The pics of your family have enhanced my view of who you are.
It is ironic that at 40 years old, I find myself in Boston, USA, and you being very close to where my mom resides at Baie Lazare.
Mark Benoiton is such a common sounding name in Sez. I wonder if we know each other. I would be interested to know if he ever was at Seychelles College. I was in the last graduating class before the school system changed to it’s present structure.
I do hope you choose to respond to my comments, as I know that I could learn a lot from your observations about life in Seychelles.
Julian
Julian,
I suspect Mark’s name sounds common because you recognize it, and him. He’s also 40 and was also in the last class at Seychelles College.
Your mom’ in Baie Lazare? It is such a small world.
What are you doing in Boston? Lovely city, but it sure can get cold!
Hello Sandra,
I am quite excited that you answered!
I came to the States in 84 to attend University. Instead had to repeat 2 yrs of high school in NH. It is the last place on earth one should send an island kid to on his first foray outside Sez. After high school I received a scholarship to a university on the north shore of Boston. After graduating I decided to stay in the States, as I was just stepping out in the world as a young single man…
24 years later, am still in Boston. I own a small business with about 35 employees. It is rewarding, but also quite taxing. Sadly, I have returned only twice to Seychelles, my most recent visit was a year ago this past January.
I love Baie Lazare, it is absolutely beautiful. Before moving to the States, my family lived at Mont Buxton.
It is ironic that you should comment about the cold weather!
We are experiencing record breaking hit today, and it is so humid.
What part of the States are you from? You come back often?
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