A Friend Departed

When I first started my dialysis treatments, I got back to working on my genealogy.  Donna Freeman contacted me and invited me to join the Stewart family site.  We emailed back and forth, prayed for each other, and just kept in touch.  I grew very fond of her.  I had written her a couple of emails and didn't hear back and was concerned.  I knew she had heart problems.  I got back onto the family site today and discovered she had died last October.  It tugged at my heart strings, because I really felt like I'd gotten to know her.  As I read her obituary I became even more impressed.  She didn't hesitate when faced with challenges, she just kept working on them.  She grew a beautiful garden and was very involved in local politics in her area.  She will be missed by many.  She just wanted to get together in Sallisaw Oklahoma for a reunion, hopefully that reunion will still happen sometime in the future.

Happy Mothers Day - 2010

The church service was lovely today.  They handed out big candy bars to all of the moms.  Of course, mine went to Steve since sugar is off limits to me.

We met with the bishop after church today and reviewed our budget.  Came home and Steve is on the couch asleep with his head rocking back and forth.  Sue is asleep at the kitchen table.

It rained hard last night and I slept through it.  The back yard is muddy big time.  My veggies are all growing great though.

There's a new book on genealogy available for free online.  "Getting Started in Genealogy Online", by William Dollarhide.  You have to go to the WorldVitalRecords.com site to download the book, but as I've gone through it lightly this afternoon, I am finding all kind of information to use.

Happy mothers day to all, whether you are a mother, soon to be mother, or have a mother in your life.

Another new month - don't forget to change your clocks!

I can't believe its the end of October and that November is tomorrow. It feels like its been a long 10 months and yet it seems to have flown by quickly as well. They say the older you get the faster the days go by and they're right.

Since I last wrote many changes have taken place in my life. The sister missionaries from our church have moved into the spare room here at home. They are wonderful. They bring alot of energy into my life and are good company when Steve is at work. Last night was great. They had bought miniature candy bars and attached pass along cards to them and handed them out to the kids when they came ringing on the door for halloween. It was so cute, one little boy was so excited and said to his Mom "It's God Candy!"

When they moved in we had Sister Richardson and Sister Finnell. They did transfers last week and so now we have Sister Richardson and Sister Beetso. Sister Richardson is from Utah and Sister Beetso is from Arizona. Sister Finnell was from California.

We had the garage sale of all garage sales. We cleaned alot of extras out of the house and over two weekends sold made about $2000.

I have become more comfortable with dialysis at home. I'm not near as anxious when I get on any more.

They called me to be a family history consultant. I work at the Family History Library on Tuesday afternoons. So far its been fairly quiet while I am there. I ordered two tapes of information on Independence County Arkansas and went through them and don't find any records on my family there. What was interesting was that they were court records and I found alot of the same people on the court records. Unfortunately, none were mine.


Daylight savings time. I forgot to change my clocks last night. Its an hour earlier than I thought when I got up.

Magic - RootsMagic 4

I signed up to beta test the new update for Roots Magic and love it. Initially I had a bit of a time trying to figure out how to access new family searh ordinances, but once I did, it was like magic. I really love it.

16 October 2007

Today was quiet at work. I did some scanning this afternoon on family pictures on the Conine line and downloaded them to Flickr this evening for family to have access to them.

Joyce Davis spoke to me and said she'd seen Helen, my mother-in-law, earlier today and that she didn't appear to be doing well. I went by on my way home. She has seriously deteriorated over the last 2 weeks. I walked her from the front room and down the hall to her room and it took about 10 minutes. When I got her to her room, I had to lift her up and lay her in her bed. I took her shoes off and sat with her for awhile. I can't help but believe, her time is limited here.

I called Peggy when I left and updated her. I don't think I'll call her anymore. Its too upsetting to both of us.

I'm excited about my genealogy. I'm beginning to feel a real connection to my ancestors.