The Legion, otherwise known as Keeping the voices at bay....

02:21

Well, this has been a hell of a week. And not good either.

Early Monday morning [last week], 4:30am, a young woman in our community was murdered. Stabbed in an artery near the heart. She died in minutes. And the person who did it? My first cousin Crystal. The whole thing sucks.

I wasn't friends with Michelle, the woman my cousin murdered. But my younger brother was very close to her. He's been very upset all week. More than I've ever seen him before.

Actually, everyone has been. The whole reserve seems like it's got a cloud hanging over it. It's not been the best week for being in a good mood.

What makes the whole thing worse is the way Michelle's family is taking everything. I understand that they lost someone, but the things they've been doing are just wrong. Within hours of Michelle's death, her family had destroyed every window in my cousin Cayenne's car [Crystal's sister] and broken into my uncle's place and trashed things. My cousin Cloud [Crystal's brother] has received death threats and had to take his girlfriend and two boys to Halifax to get away from it all. His mom took Crystal's girls there too because Michelle's family threatened to kill them, so that Crystal would know how it felt.

We've been lucky. Since we're not that close to that side of the family we haven't gotten any of the backlash. Which, considering we have a new baby here, is a great thing. If I had to worry about people threatening my little girl I'd be most upset. Bad enough that they're threatening family.

What Crystal did was wrong and she deserves to pay for that. But her family, my family, didn't do it. They had nothing to do with it. She's a grown woman and is responsible for her own actions. Her father, brother, sisters and most especially her children, do not deserve to suffer for what she did.

In any case, it's been kind of a bad week. The only thing getting me through all this without going crazy is Meaghan. She's such a sweet little thing. All I have to do is look at her and I feel like I could take on the world I'm so happy.

She had her first bath saturday night. She seemed to love it. Course she didn't much like being taken out of the bath. I don't blame her, I don't like it much either. She's growing pretty quickly too. The nurse from the health center came by and weighed her on thursday, 6lbs 14oz. Ten pounds in just a few days. And I'd bet she's gained that much or more in the last few days since then too.

I'd better try and get some sleep. The princess will be up soon for a feeding.