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12 CHATEAU CHIC Tranquility At Home

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18 MAKING A DIFFERENCE

24 FROM ASHES TO GRACE

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THE INSPIRATION ISSUE How do I even start to write a column about 2022… I feel like we are all tiptoeing into this new year with caution and with bated breath. No one make the first move, ok?

In 2022, I want to move purposefully ahead, do things that are meaningful, and have a positive impact on those around me.

January’s issue connects you with an organization and a young lady who inspires others to serve a purpose, helping those around them through advocacy.

I’m just kidding! That’s no way to enter a new year! I’m diving head-first into 2022, dragging those around me kicking and screaming. I love all that a new year represents. New beginnings, fresh starts, crazy dreams – this is what a new year means to me.

Our first story introduces you to CASA of Terrebonne. Terrebonne’s Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) program was created to assist children who are subject to court proceedings due to abuse, neglect and/or abandonment.

Volunteers, called CASAs, walk the journey alongside these children, serving as their voice, their friend, their advocate throughout the life of their case. Learn more about these volunteers who give the most of themselves to children in need starting on page 18.

As I shared in December’s column, I like to choose a word at the beginning of each year to focus on, kind of like a mantra of sorts. I’m terrible at making and keeping resolutions, but I feel focusing on a single word (or even a collection of words as the year progresses) helps me to keep things in perspective.

Last year my word was Hope.

This year, my word is Purpose.

Often people sit around wondering what their purpose is in life, questioning their existence in this world. Some fall victim to the idea that we have no connection or impact on the world around us. I just don’t believe that! Every one of us is placed on this Earth with a purpose. We have to embrace the gifts we have been given and find that purpose. There are things on this Earth that we are meant to do, and we must serve that purpose.

I also want to live my life “with purpose.” As these last few years have shown us, we cannot take anything for granted.

Our second story introduces you to Macy Lauren Ledet. Macy was paralized in a car accident in 2020.

Through sheer determination, Macy has taken her care into her own hands, signing up for procedures to not only help herself be able to walk again, but to help those that come after her know there are options. Learn more about Macy’s journey and purpose starting on page 24.

It’s not easy to quiet our hearts and our minds long enough to hear the voice telling us of our true purpose. But as I start to move forward into this new year, I feel poised and ready to listen.

Here’s to living with purpose in 2022!

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KATI My New Year’s resolution is to never pass up an opportunity for fun. We have had so little of it the last 2 years, that I will never take that for granted again.

TIERRANY My New Year’s resolution is to expand my business by opening at least 10 EyeKandy vending machines in 2022.

KELSEY I love the promise of a new year—it’s an opportunity to make changes, big and small; a chance to pursue new goals and dreams. I’m a full-time mom, surgical assistant and photographer, but this year my resolution is to travel to somewhere I have never been and capture the small moments with our family, and I plan to execute a unique photo project that will help expand my small business. 2022 will be a great one.

NEE My New Year’s resolution is to volunteer more and become more involved in my community.

BRITTANY My New Year’s resolution is to create a structured schedule and stick to it.

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STORY BY MARY DOWNER DITCH

Imagine being a child again. Through no fault of your own, you have been removed from the family that you know and have been placed by the state into foster care. You have new adults in your life to care for you, perhaps even new children in your home as siblings.

People come in and out of your life: case workers, lawyers, your birth parents, your foster family, other children.

Things can change in an instant. But there’s always the guarantee of one constant thing in your life: your CASA. Terrebonne’s Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) program was created to assist children who are subject to court proceedings due to abuse, neglect and/or abandonment. CASAs are trained volunteers who are appointed by a judge to provide oneon-one advocacy for a child who is under the jurisdiction of the court. The

CASA is responsible for conducting an independent investigation, helping the court understand the needs of the child, ensuring that court-ordered services are being provided and making childfocused recommendations to the court based on the best interest of the child.

of children’s unique needs, especially their need for services aimed at helping them live the healthiest life possible.

40 YEARS IN THE MAKING

The National CASA program is celebrating 40 years in 2022. Founded

by Superior Court Judge David Sokup of CASA of Terrebonne has accomplished Seattle, Washington, the program began a great deal since its inception over as a way to solve a recurring problem.

20 years ago. The CASA program has given a voice to hundreds of children “In criminal and civil cases, even in the dependency court system. CASA though there were always many of Terrebonne has trained hundreds different points of view, you walked out of volunteers to advocate on behalf of the courthouse at the end of the day of children experiencing an intensely and you said, ‘I’ve done my best; I can confusing and frightening time in live with the decisions’,” Judge Sokup their lives within a system that may states. “But when you’re involved with a be impersonal, slow and lacking the child and you’re trying to decide what to financial support needed to provide do to facilitate that child’s growth into a adequate care. CASA of Terrebonne’s mature and happy adult, you don’t feel goal is to raise awareness within the like you have sufficient information to dependency system and the community allow you to make the right decision.’Do January 2022 18 povhouma.com

I really know everything I should? Have I really been told all of the different things?

Is this really right?’”

To ensure he was getting all the facts and that the long-term welfare of each child was being represented, the Seattle judge came up with an idea that would change America’s judicial procedure and the lives of over a million children. He obtained funding to recruit and train community volunteers to step into courtrooms on behalf of the children: Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteers.

This unique concept was implemented in Seattle as a pilot program in January 1977. During that first year, the program provided 110 trained CASA volunteers for 498 children in 376 dependency cases. In 1978 the National Center of State Courts selected the Seattle program as “the best national example of citizen participation in the juvenile justice system.”

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By 1982 it was clear that a national association was needed to direct CASA’s emerging national presence. The National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association was formed that year. Today the National CASA Association represents 930 CASA programs across the country, including Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

ON THE NEXT LEVEL “There is such a need for the child’s voice to be heard,” shares Christine Aucoin, executive director of CASA of Terrebonne.

“On a basic level, we pair up volunteers with foster kids. They get this one-on-one relationship. We just get to know them so well. It’s important to make sure we get firsthand information. Ultimately the judge is going to decide, after getting the full picture, based on our observations, based on the case worker, based on the lawyer–all these different pieces of the puzzle help to form that decision.”

The most inspiring part of the CASA organization is the volunteers, the CASAs themselves. These individuals are the ones who dedicate their time to making sure they represent their child and become their voice within the system.

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normalcy,” explains Christine. “We make sure that even though they are not in their homes–they are in the state’s custody– their needs are being met. So whether it’s educational needs, medical needs, psychological needs - we’re looking for resources. Yes, they have a caseworker through the state, but sometimes those needs are not identified. We are able to form relationships with them that a case worker may not have time for.”

While the volunteers are not paid for their service or their time, the reward for many is seeing their case through to a happy ending and knowing you made a difference in a child’s life.

“Our CASAs are the most selfless and dedicated individuals you will ever see,” shares Christine. “This is a long term commitment. Some of these cases may last 24 months; some of them may last five years. But our CASAs stay with their child through all of it.”

Even during the height of the Covid pandemic in Louisiana, CASAs continued to provide their children with the nurturing attention they desired.

“We never stopped communicating with the children. Our CASA did drive-by visits where the volunteers would sit in the car, and the kids would stay on the porch,” explains Christine. “Those volunteers that were able to visit with those children, that really created a more positive relationship because their CASAs were still there. We were also able to keep an eye on those children to ensure they were doing well.”

MAKING A DIFFERENCE While it would be a dream come true to see every child in the system have a CASA by their side, that’s just not the reality we face in Terrebonne Parish. Over 200 children are currently in the foster care system locally.

“Children continue to come into foster care, so that number really never minimizes,” shares Sulma Reyes, Training/Outreach Coordinator. “We unfortunately just don’t have the CASAs to put one with each child that we have on our waiting list. Our statistics for volunteers have gone down recently with Covid and Hurricane Ida, so not even half of the kids in foster care currently have a CASA.” “We take people from all walks of life,” explains Christine. “They go through an application process and once they apply, we bring them in for an interview.

I think the training kind of sets them up for success because they’re so different in so many ways. We have teachers, we have retired business owners. We have a wide gamut of people and professions, it’s wanting to help, wanting to be a part of this community, to help these kids out.”

Marketing Coordinator. “They are concerned they would have to witness the abuse or violence.When a CASA gets to a child, the abuse has already happened.

We’re moving forward; we’re on the healing path. And people think it takes a lot of time each month. While it is a longterm commitment, it’s truly only 10 to 15 hours a month. It’s not a lot of time, but it’s a lot of heart.”

“I often hear from people contemplating becoming a CASA that they don’t want to get too attached,” says Jenny Domangue, Lead Advocate Supervisor. “You’re going to get attached and you’re going to form those relationships. That’s where our good CASAs come from because you have an investment in that child. To say you’re not going to form a bond is completely incorrect thinking, because you will for the right reason. You are going to make a difference in the life of a child. Whether you see the fruit of that labor or not, you’re planting seeds. Someday those seeds will bloom, whether it’s in their childhood or into their adulthood. And to know that you’ve made a difference in that child’s life one way or another is just so fulfilling.”

The staff at CASA is quick to address many of the concerns and reasons people may have regarding volunteering.

The next training cycle for CASA of Terrebonne begins in January. Training classes are scheduled for Jan. 18, April 19, July 12 and Oct. 11.

“Often when we tell someone, ‘oh, you would be a great volunteer,’ their first response is ‘I don’t wanna get my heart broken.’,” shares Anna Merlos,

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CASA IS RESPONSIBLE FOR: • BEING THERE FOR A TEENAGER THAT AGED OUT OF THE SYSTEM AND CONTINUING THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO THIS DAY. • HELPING A TEENAGER TRANSITION TO LIVING IN A RELATIVE PLACEMENT AND ENCOURAGING HER AS SHE MAKES DECISIONS ABOUT CAREER CHOICES. • FINDING RESOURCES FOR A CHILD WHO WAS STRUGGLING ACADEMICALLY AND ATTENDING HIS SPORTING EVENTS. • SPENDING HOURS IN A HOSPITAL ROOM AFTER A CHILD HAD SURGERY. • BEING AVAILABLE AT ANY TIME OF THE DAY OR NIGHT TO RECEIVE A PHONE CALL. • BUILDING A TRUSTING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CHILD IN WHICH THE CHILD FELT SAFE ENOUGH TO DIVULGE ABUSE NOT YET REPORTED TO A CASEWORKER.

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STORY BY HEIDI GUIDRY PHOTOS BY MISTY LEIGH MCELROY February 21, 2020, was the day life changed for Macy Lauren Ledet. She and her two children left a Houma parade to go home to New Orleans when an RV collided with their vehicle on Highway 90. Not only were her children injured, but Macy was paralyzed on impact.

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Macy actually didn’t make it at first– they had to bring her back. She spent five months in the hospital, three of those months spent in the ICU with a tracheotomy. She was released from the hospital in June of 2020 and it’s been a crazy journey since then.

“You go from being a very independent person who spent 38 years on the planet doing everything by yourself, and all of a sudden, that doesn’t work with your plan anymore,” Macy shared.

She couldn’t see her children the whole time she was in the hospital, sharing it was the most deafening experience of her life. She described it as dying twice, because “first you take my life, and then you take my children,” she reminisced.

One of her biggest goals was to simply hug her children again.

While everyone sees Macy as an inspiration, she shared she didn’t deserve the title at first, simply because she was miserable. She didn’t know how to align her old identity with the new person she now was, “I didn’t know who that person in the mirror was,” she said.

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Macy is a lawyer who practices in St. Charles Parish, and when the accident happened, she did what she has always done: drown herself in her work. While figuring out the ‘new’ Macy, she began researching quadriplegics all over the world to see what they were doing in their journeys.

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“When I left the hospital I was told I would never be able to use my arms or my hands and I would never walk again,” she said. She just couldn’t accept what they were telling her what her life would be. This made her have a new purpose in life, “to find out why they keep telling us that this is all we’re ever going to be. I just couldn’t accept it, I really couldn’t,” she said.

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She remembers laying in bed every night thinking that life couldn’t be what it is now, that there had to be something more.

She started searching on social media and researching on the web for options. This led her to find a man who was one of the first people to do a study with the Department of Defense for a procedure called a nerve transfer.

A nerve transfer is when they take the nerves above the injury and connect a deadener nerve to an active nerve, similar to when you connect a ceiling fan to the wires in the ceiling using a co-ax.

“I decided to become a guinea pig,” Macy shared. “My whole purpose has been to find something out and then do it. Then document it.”

They cut Macy in four places on both arms and took nerves from the backside of her leg. She is currently a year and a month into the procedure and she has motion of her arms. She’s in a manual chair, and can use her fingers to type, write, feed herself, and do her makeup and hair. She can help her kids with their homework, and she is in the process of learning how to drive. She is doing things that people told her she would never be able to do, and she knows this isn’t the end of her journey.

The most critical time for a nerve transfer is within the first year of the injury which led her to feel she had to document her journey.

She needed to let others know about the miraculous procedure and to get information out there that could help people that might not know there’s more to life than what they are being told.

She reached out to a family member that led Studio Six in San Francisco to pick up the documentary project. They are in the process of shooting Macy’s journey, but the documentary isn’t due to come out until Fall of 2022.

“I don’t have the legs to walk - I do have the will to want to, but there’s got to be a way to make it work,” she said. This led Macy on another search to discover there is a facility in Thailand that conducted a procedure called epidural stimulation.

Macy doesn’t want anyone in that critical timeline to miss out on a chance at a better life. Her biggest goal is advocacy, so she started shooting her own videos to post on her social media to help figure out solutions to problems that disabled people face each and every day. She works on local, state, and federal levels to advocate for the simple things that are needed like access to buildings. She said she has to take crazy routes throughout downtown New Orleans just to get in buildings. She even wrote a protocol for learning how to drive and getting your license after experiencing going to Toro to get information on how to do so, and the staff wasn’t able to tell her.

All while advocating, she’s still practicing law, bicycling, lifting weights, doing pushups, and everything she can to get better and stronger.

She found two clinics in the United States, one in Cleveland and the other in Louisville, where the Department of Defense has been conducting walking studies on injured military. The problem is the FDA won’t approve epidural stimulation until 2025.

Macy learned that just like the nerve transfer, epidural stimulation also has a critical timeline. That pushed her to do everything in her power to get it done and to document the entire process.

Macy strives to set goals and then exceed them. She set up a manifestation board in her bedroom in January 2021 where she wrote her goals for the year on the large board. Some of the things she wrote were to be Ms. Wheelchair Louisiana, to become a successful editor, to shoot her gun since it was her passion before the accident, to solidify her law practice to bring in more associates, and to learn to walk again. As she looked at the list, there was one thing on the board she didn’t know how to achieve: to learn how to walk again.

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During a timeline when COVID was prevalent, she said the process was difficult to get to a facility. She had to clear the visit with the embassy and even had someone contact the White House to try to get her there quickly. “It was a process,” she said, “but I knew I had a very limited time, as it had to be done within the first two years of injury, and I’m coming up on two years in February.”

She spent last summer at a satellite facility in Guadalajara. She spent 32 days in the facility where the procedure required putting a stimulator on her spine right below the injury. When the simulator was turned on, she could stand and take steps, move her legs and her feet, move her toes and balance herself. She described her experience in the facility as challenging because she always puts a high expectation on herself. She was previously a personal trainer and very active

and thought it would be easy for her, but it took a little over 20 days to learn how to take steps. She eventually walked down a 50-foot hallway.

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One of the most memorable moments in Guadalajara was when she stood up out of bed for the first time, swinging her legs around. “I was screaming crying, just freaking out,” she said. “I couldn’t believe it!”

Despite the recommendation against the procedure from her doctors due to the lack of research, Macy said they told her they want to hear everything about her procedure and journey because they can’t believe what they are seeing. “Now this is one of the top neurosurgeons in the country, if not, in the world, telling me he has no understanding of what I’m doing,” she said with wonder in her voice.

Looking back at her manifestation board, Macy proudly noted she received the Ms. Wheelchair Louisiana title for the second year in a row; has successfully put out six editorials this year; shot her gun, nailing four out of six shooting clays; went to Guadalajara and walked; and she can use her hands and her arms. She said one of the most important things about her journey is how it is affecting the people around her. Despite the journey being a challenge for her children to adjust to, she said they are doing better, they are doing unimaginable things for most kids their age and diving into things versus shying away.

“Sometimes I forget how strong I really am,” she said, “but when you’re in it, it’s so hard to see.”

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She receives compliments from people saying she’s an inspiration, and she said she really appreciates it, but she has a specific vision of who she wants to receive the message. She wants family members of disabled people to see them in a very different light and she wants children to see people in wheelchairs not as a scary thing. Anytime she sees a child look and stare, she invites them to touch and get closer to show that it’s a normal thing. She is constantly advocating, sharing a positive message, and doing everything she can to make the world not seem so foreign to those who just need something done a little differently.

“It’s about taking your platform and taking however many followers you have and putting the information out there,” Macy shared. “It just so happens to be inspiring. For me, I had to fight SO hard to get the information, and you shouldn’t have to fight that hard. It should not be this hard.” POV

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RESOLVE TO BE HEALTHY AND WELL IN 2022 After nearly two years of concentrating on illness, it’s time to focus on staying well.

Start the new year by scheduling an annual wellness visit. Go ahead and make preventive care appointments, including dental and vision, for everyone in your family.

Health experts warn that COVID-19 is likely to be with us for years. The Louisiana Department of Health recommends booster shots for anyone ages 18 and older who’s fully vaccinated. Also include these preventive measures as part of daily routines to help protect ourselves, family and friends: • Mask when indoors and in large crowds • Socially distance when possible • Wash your hands often

Whether it’s 1,000 or 10,000 steps, get up and The Great Resignation of 2021 was prompted walk. primarily by the Great Burnout many of us experienced during the pandemic. Sometimes Take the stairs when possible and choose we can overcome being overwhelmed and parking spots farther away instead of driving anxious with time out—a vacation, spa day or around in circles looking for one closest to the good night’s sleep. At other times, it may be door. something more. Look for key symptoms of burnout: Go to sleep.

• Lack of motivation The National Sleep Foundation recommends an average of seven to eight hours of sleep each • Lake of resilience and unable to get back night for adults. Consider getting extra rest by on course waking up earlier. Think of the earlier alarm as • Negative interactions with coworkers more time for exercise or quiet meditation and reflection before starting the day.

• Inability to make decisions According to Sleep Advisor, waking up earlier Consider therapy if experiencing long-term also: burnout on the job or lingering anxiety and • Allows more time for a healthy breakfast depression.

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Research from the National Institute of Health Move more. shows that animals can help reduce depression Whether it’s joining a gym, practicing yoga, and lower levels of cortisol, the stress hormone. gardening or riding a bike, we need to move However, look at all the pros and cons of pet more. One of the best ways is by walking. ownership.

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According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, smoking continues to be the leading cause of death in this country. In Louisiana, more than 7,000 adults die annually due to smoking-related illness.

Smoking increases risks for cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and hypertension. It also negatively impacts: • Immune systems • Bones, increasing risk of breaks and osteoporosis • Eye diseases In resolving to be healthier in 2022, start with just a few good habits. Don’t try to adopt too many at once. Slow but steady wins the health race.

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FUN FACTS New Year’s Eve Traditions from Around The World

Japan

Just before midnight on New Year’s Eve, the Japanese eat soba noodles.

Spain

In Spain, with 12 seconds remaining until the New Year, people eat 12 green grapes to bring good luck in the coming year.

Italy

Italians love lentils for their coin-like shape, symbolizing luck and prosperity.

Denmark

After a traditional New Year’s Eve meal of boiled cod with mustard, the Danes eat a tower of marzipan doughnuts called kransekage.

Canada

In rural areas of Canada, New Year’s Eve is a time to spend ice fishing with friends.

Ireland

The Irish have a tradition of banging bread against the walls of their houses on New Year’s Eve.

Greece

The Greeks ring in the new year by eating vasilopita, a sweet yeast bread.

Australia

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When Papère came back to the house from spreading corn under the couteau trees, it was only the middle of the day but it was too dark to tell. For the rest of the dark day and through the dark night, Papère and Mamère were busy cooking. Tomas could smell meats cooking, breads and pies baking, and flour and onions frying into a roux, and all that cooking kept the house warm. Tomas watched Mamère pop a little of the duck corn to sew together with some thread and make a decoration for the Christmas tree. It all smelled just like the Christmases he remembered.

But it would not be the same. If the rains and floods didn’t stop, then his daddy and momma and brothers and sisters could not pack up the pirogues and head back along the tranasse to come home from the camp. Tomas got a little lonely again, especially because it was Christmas Eve. During the night, the rain kept falling and the wind kept blowing hard. From the big window in the living room, he could see that there was no moon and no stars out. It was all dark. When Mamère finally stopped sweeping and went to bed, she turned down the last coal oil lamp. Now, there was no light for Papa Noël to follow. Lying in the bed, Tomas looked at the black glass eyes of the big whitetail deer head with horns that hung over the fireplace. If it was not the Devil, then it must be an angel. For the first time, he was not afraid of it at all, and he even talked to it. “Please make sure that Papa Noël finds us here.

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Tomas tried to sleep hard but his loneliness kept waking him up. After one short dream, he rose from bed. He listened for some sounds that may have made him wake up, but he heard none. He didn’t even hear the rain and he didn’t even hear the wind. He walked to the living room to look out the big window.

There was still no moon and no stars for Papa Noël or his family to follow.

Suddenly, there was a soft voice that sacred him. “The moon and the stars are not the only things you can see at night, tee-boy,” Papère whispered from the corner of the room, as he struck a match to light a coal oil lamp. “Come see.”

Papère and Tomas walked to the back porch on their tip-toes not to wake Mamère. And they opened the door slowly so that its rusty creaking would not be loud. Outside, it was cold and windy and everything was wet. Papère raised the lamp to shine into the trees at the couteau.

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“See what I see?” Papère asked. Tomas could tell something was moving in the trees, and the longer he looked the more scared he got. But after a while his eyes could see more clearly, and he could see a bunch of things quietly moving back and forth in the dim light.

“Those deer sure love some corn!” Papère whispered. “And when they happy like that, they wave their little white tails. And when they wave their white tails like that, a good eye can see that from a mile away. Don’t need no moon and no stars at night with that.” Tomas now knew why Papère spread corn

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at the couteau earlier in the day before the storm. And since Papa Noël always makes his trips at night, year after year after year, he must have a good eye that can see from a mile away. “Go inside and check under the tree to make sure!”

Papère said.

Tomas ran inside on his tip-toes, and Papère slowly followed on own his tiptoes. When the lamp got closer to the tree, Tomas noticed that the popcorn strung across the tree was gone, and a few popcorns had fallen onto the floor. Closer to the tree, Tomas could see some big socks that Mamère had knitted, and they were stretched and stuffed with all kinds of round and square and other shapes. He was careful not to peek too closely, but stuffed into the sock knitted with the letter “T” he thought he saw the shape of a little boat. Tomas tip-toed back to bed, being careful to feed the big deer head over the fireplace a few more logs of wood.

As the sun rose on Christmas Day, Tomas woke up slowly from a hard sleep to the sound of Mamère sweeping.

Probably the fallen popcorn, he thought.

He looked up at the big deer head. Its eyes looked different, more green than black, and it looked like its little white mouth was smiling. From the kitchen, he could hear the coffee pot dripping, and then he heard something he didn’t expect. The porch door was creaking open, and then heard his daddy’s voice.

For the rest of the day, To-mas played with his new toy boat. There were plenty of new ponds outside to play in, and they would last into January.

Inside the house, he played games with his brothers and sisters, and they all sang songs. On the dinner table, there were breads and pies and gumbo, and meats like duck and pork and seafood.

And among the meats, there was no deer.

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Downtown Houma Market January 4, 11, 18, 25; 3 p.m.

Terrebonne Main Library Branch The Houma Market is a traditional farmer’s market and will offer seasonal and local foods, seafood, and works created by local artisans for sale. The weekly market will be held every Tuesday. January 4th is also scheduled to be the Main Library Branch’s first day open post-Ida.

Market at the Marina

January 8, 8 a.m. - noon Downtown Marina, Houma Market at the Marina is an outdoor farmers market for the community presented by Terrebonne General Health System and Houma Downtown Development Committee. This farmers market features vendors that offer a wide variety of produce, baked goods, hot food, and even healthy body items.

The Market at the Marina is free for everyone and will go on rain or shine (unless extreme weather). Check their Facebook page for a vendor list the week of the event.

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January 8, 7 p.m.

Houma Terrebonne Civic Center Terrebonne’s largest Mardi Gras party brings together all the area krewes and Mardi Gras lovers in one place! The Krewe Court Presentation will be held at 7 p.m. Live entertainment by Karma

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8 Seconds to Glory Champion Bull Riding

January 15, 7 p.m.

Houma Terrebonne Civic Center James M Pierce’s 8 Seconds to Glory Champion Bull Riding series and The James Pierce Invitational Bull Fights to benefit the Cancer Center of Thibodaux Regional will hit the Civic Center once again! This event is held annually to raise awareness of breast cancer and the importance of early detection and treatment. Advance tickets are on sale at the Civic Center Box Office or through ticketmaster. com.

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January 19, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

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