Remembering ... Who?

So I've been working on family stuff for a while now. By family stuff I mean genealogy. I have some great stuff, thanks to my mother. Some really old stuff like handwritten birth records of my great grandfather's children ( all 13 of them), by my great grandfather. Photographs of my gg grandparents. I even have my great grandmother's wedding shoes. All of this stuff was taken out of a family garage a few months before one of my mother's cousins accidently started a fire, when she was a child. And then there's the family tree. I have close to two thousand people listed but some of them are branches that are very distantly related. It's interesting and I enjoy it.

I recently started a project for one of my husband's cousins. I'm still working on it but I gave him want I had so far, which was about four pages of family history, records and such. He was very happy with it. Actually, he really liked the file folder I put the pages in most of all! Such a guy thing. I put the information in digital scrapbook form. Like I said, I'm still working on it.

Remembering family, past and present, is important to me. That's why I did the video biography on my dad. I miss him. I think I'll order a pisa (aka pizza), play UNO (by myself?), and watch my Papa on the tv screen talk about how my sister and me brought him "a feeling of complete joy".

Old Year-New Year

Okay, so I haven't been keeping up here with this blog at all. No excuses, just haven't made the time. I have made time to view and read a number of other people's blogs. Does that count? I say yes, since I'm not just doing the asking but also providing the answers. Actually, I have been writing but not here or even on my computer but longhand and in a journal. Remember those? Remember pencils-pretty pencils covered in floral pinks? Oh, and hey what about pens? Pens with dark rolling ink that can produce any angle of curve or line your brain commands your hand to execute. My new journal is an old fashion composition book that I covered with stuff to make it my own. At the moment, it is my pride and joy. My adult children are not amused by the fact that a writing journal has bumped them down a few notches, on Mom's Pride and Joy List.

This year is all about getting myself in gear. For a few years now that gear has not gotten any futher than first. Not because of mere laziness, well maybe a tiny bit, but because of health issues. So this year I decided that I'm moving into second gear and doing it the right way. If you have ever had to deal with any kind of cronic illness/condition, you have found (usually the hard way) that living a life that's deamed a quality life, can be tricky. I consider myself an intelligent woman. I would even say I pride myself on being a problem solver. Why just today, because I didn't want to look for a safety pin, I grabbed a couple of those photo sticker squares and put them done the front of my blouse so it wouldn't pop open. Ingenius, if I do say so myself! So second gear it is and lots of fun while I'm at it. CHOOOOWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!