Aren’t you supposed to sleep late?

And other things about teenagers I don’t understand…
Our last day of school was Thursday, so I have my whole summer planned. Mondays are house cleaning day. The sooner we get it done, the sooner we play.
Tuesdays mornings before the kids get up is cemetery page making hour, Wednesday morning before they get up [...]

Happy Memorial Day!

To the family historian, Memorial Day is a bitter sweet holiday. Sure we love research our ancestors, most of which are dead, but Memorial Day is that day we give honor and respect to those ancestors who didn’t die of old age, or cancer, or heart disease. They instead died young, and on the [...]

Genealogy Challenge Progress

If you were with me for the challenge, you know I am working on getting to 3000 sources. I have made really good progress this week and now I have 116 more to go! I have been working on WWI Draft Cards this week. I added 17 new sources just in the last [...]

That dang ankle

With the spring being so pretty, and my tummy not, hubby and I have started walking again. We have a great neighborhood for it, and we both love to walk and catch up on our days. It’s the perfect solution for getting in shape for summer, and spending some quality time together-except..
That dang ankle. [...]

Ode to the dustbunny

I have been waiting for weeks now to have some free time so I could clean under my bed and dresser.  You see I live with three children, a husband, three birds, two cats (now outside) and an occasional dog.  I have hard wood floors so I have dust. Lots of it.
Today was the day. [...]

Ah! Genealogy fun

Didn’t get much done yesterday. Turns out I was sick. Who knew.  That nap refreshed me though and I am feeling much better. So I am trying to get back on schedule, just running one day late. But I did have some time to do my cemetery pages today.  I got two more pages online [...]

I’m Free!

I feel like a little kid! My job runs the school year, so I am officially off until August! I have one more week at church and I am officially done teaching on Wednesday nights! I am free to do whatever I want.
But for some reason, my brain can’t catch up to [...]

Oh, I love a rainy night!

Remember that old song? Seemed our radio station only played it if it were night and rainy. I actually hate rainy days/nights. Being prone to migraines that means I am sensitive to the changes in atmosphere that rain brings with it. But it’s been a very busy week (or at least [...]

Mapping my life

This weekend we went to our local library and I bought the book “Organizing From the Inside Out” by Julie Morgenstern. Most of it was pretty much what I do, but she suggests that you actually sit down and fit your schedule into the compartments (time slots) of your life, similarly to how you [...]

Declutter that genealogy file

Spring is the time when we begin to declutter our houses, wash the windows, prepare for summer.
Genealogy shouldn’t be much different.  As we work on paperwork, we need to decide: File, Toss, Giveaway.  Some are easy. A marriage certificate for my 3rd great grandparents gets first scanned, then filed.  A census index I photocopied in [...]