Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Nadreau Name
Yesterday my sisters and I went to the mall in Eau Claire with our Dad for a mini family reunion. The neat and sad thing was that my Dad was sitting there with two of the seven remaining Nadreau men, having a grand old time. Dad is the oldest remaining Nadreau man, having outlived all and past the age when all of them died. So my cousins kind of gravitate toward him, they find him facinating and are very engulfed in his every word. Which is fun to see. They ask him about events that now only he can remember and about Chippewa Falls and about his relatives. I have five men cousins with the Nadreau name, but only two of them had one son each. I'm afraid the Nadreau name will die away. I wish there was some way to keep it alive. I wish I would have named my kids with that name for their middle name or something. It would have been weird but at least that name would be out there somewhere. Funny when you're a kid how you feel things will always be the same. I wish I could go back and talk to all of my relatives who passed away. I would really listen to every word they say and treasure more moments. I have lots of them in my memory and I treasure all of them.
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I didn't really think about Nadreau before. I thought of first names like Bodie "William" and Laina "Virginia" Rose. But didn't think about the actual last name. I wonder how many names have died for lack of boys. That's nice that they like to talk to Grandpa. I would like to listen too. If someone else would come up with the questions, cuz it's that part that I have a hard time with. But I like to listen. :)
ReplyDeleteHow neat that your dad was viewed and treated as a bit of a patriarch on Monday :) How special! I feel the same way about the Weber name...Sam is the only one to pass it on, and we'll see if he gets his act together enough to marry and have kids! Ha!
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