"Time Flies" is not just a saying

I can't believe that it is already the end of Feburary! When I decided to quit my job and stay home I thought it would allow me more time to get things done. Boy was I wrong! It seems that each week I have such great plans and each week God shows me that He is the one with the plans, not me. God has been so very gracious, he knew all the things that were coming and made provision for me to be at home so that I wouldn't stress over working around my job. I have been blessed with "some" time to work on my family history and have found really interesting information about my family. I hope to be able to work on my DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) paperwork next week. If anyone else is working on their family tree and have any tips let me know. I hope this will be a blog of tips and hints from not only me but others.

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School Days

Hi all hope your week is going well. Another school year has begun and with 2 in high school now I have been looking back in time to when they first started kindergarten. Time truly does fly!!! God keeps reminding me to enjoy each moment I have with them and to take the time to be with them as much as possible. Now the non fun stuff starts, fall cleaning. Instead of spring cleaning I like to fall clean, with kids in school I can get more done and also pack up all the summer stuff. I guess I'm still on school time---school starts and so does my "homework". After I get everything caught up here at home, I will be returning to my genealogy research. So hopefully I will get back with you quickly and the brick walls will fall.

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Shortmom

Summer Days

Hello all, just a quick post to let you know that I'm alive. I hope you are having a great summer and getting some things done. I have hit somewhat of a brick wall on the family history research. I can't seem to find any information regarding my great grandfather on my mother's side. His birth father died when he was little and was then raised by his mother and stepfather. I can't even find out much about the stepfather. As you can tell, sometimes I don't have much in the way of patience so I get really frustrated and bummed. Well, laundry duty calls so I will write more later.

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Home at last

Hi all, the first six weeks of summer have been choas!! I don't remember a more busy summer. We have been gone alot and hopefully this next week will be a quiet one spent with all of the family at home.
I just purchased a new scanner so I hope that I will soon be able to add more content to the blog as well as jump start my downloading genealogy information to my software database. I am hoping that a computer file will take place of alot of my paper files that take up so much space.
Summer is a great time to start new projects, so get out there and start something new!!

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Happy Birthday America!!!!!!

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!! May God Bless America and it's people.

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Catching Up!!

Wow, I can't believe it's been so long since my last post. I think to myself every summer "this is going to be the summer of rest and relaxation" and it usually never is. It seems that the days fly by to fast and I never get all the things done that I hoped to. I have though, been able to spend a few moments each day on my genealogy research, and thats what it takes, a few minutes a day. I did find a GREAT site for information..."YouTube.com" go figure. Type in "genealogy" and it will bring up alot of really informative videos on alot of different subjects that are really helpful. I find that I learn something better by seeing it done than by just reading about how to do something. Give it a try and let me know what you find, never be afraid to think outside the box when doing research.

Well as with me hang in there and try to research for just a few minutes a day and soon those minutes will reward you with break throughs in your search.



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Vacation time

This week is a crazy one...our church is having it's Vacation Bible School this week and though I'm not working in it this year our youngest son is. It seems to always be a crazy yet very fun week. Our daughter (middle child) is away on a mission trip this week also. She is in Memphis, TN. in the inner city doing work on homes that need repairs. It's a great ministry that meets the physical needs of mainly senior adults, our prayer for her and the rest of the team is that they will be the hands of Christ in all they do. This coming weekend I hope will prove to be an exciting one... Doug Lewis is coming in view of a call to become our pastor. From all God is revealing I am confident that this is His man for our church at this time. We have been without a pastor for a year now and are ready for a new chapter to begin in our church. Not that we haven't had great pastors fill in each week!!! I guess I better go I need to start planning our vacation to Dallas....so many details to figure out so little time.



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