Family Tree

Don't you just love it when your kiddo comes home with some type of homework that requires parental participation? Heavy parental participation? Well, for the long weekend B was assigned to complete her family tree as far back as she could go. For us overly obsessive moms that means until we can't stand it anymore! D and I have talked to parents and one aunt trying to go back to the great-great-great-great grandparents. Now here it is 1:00 am in Texas and I am "surfed out" from looking at death records and marriage records. But, I think I may have found a new hobby! Did you know that some cemeteries have pictures of all their gravestones and with just a little information you can pull up all sorts of neat info? Though I have complained (more than once) about this homework assignment, I have really enjoyed the hunt. I have learned things about my relatives that I did not even know. If your interested in this type of thing www.ancestry.com is a good place to start.




This long weekend also has me thinking that summer is only 6 weeks away! Yessssss! As a public school teacher, I really enjoy my summer time. Now I am thinking about summer vacations. I would love to go on another cruise, but since we are following Dave Ramsey's baby steps in order to be debt-free (can't wait!) we will probably not be doing anything major this year. Oh, how I would love to board that Royal Caribbean Voyager of the Seas again and set sail to the most beautiful beaches in the world! However, I know that those beaches will still be there next summer and they will be so much more fun when we are totally DEBT-FREE! How will you spend your summer?


I just realized that I have not yet posted anything about the "crazy dog" in our life. Here's a picture to show her craziness until I get around to telling some of her funny stories. Have a great Easter!

By the way, thank you to Keri for telling me how to move my pictures around on the blog!