I am going to try to do this blog more often. I find as I sit down to use computer, the phone rings, or laundry calls, or dishes, or or or!

Yep, it's two or three hours later than when I started this. As with almost all women - am I this much busier than I was a few years ago - or are things speeding up??? I know why I love spending time in the motorhome - there are so fewer interuptions, no washing machine, no phones, (well - cell phones) so LESS of all these things that require my attention. OR is it that I try to get things done "now" rather than putting off until tomorrow?? Maybe it's all because I spend too much time thinking about the lack of time!

On to more serious things. . .! Carol was helping me with genealogy the other evening, we were chatting on the phone - both looking at Ancestory.com. I was giving her names and dates and she was filling in the blank spots. I got to the name of my g.g.grandmother and grandfather (Bennett and Sarah Swearingen). They had 12 children that we know of, of those, 7 died in childhood. As I read those dates to Carol, my heart broke for the pain these two parents must have seen. Some of the dates don't really look realistic to me, but I know dad did a lot of research on his family. But none-the-less, this family buried seven of their children, some only weeks before the next one was born. One baby (the first born) was just days shy of being one year old, one at ten years, one on the same day as birth (has a name so presume it lived for a time?) one at 5 years, one at 6 years, one at 10 months and another at 1-year of age. How did these kids die, what of?? Questions I really would like to find the answers. I know the ache of losing a grandchild at a young age - what must this have been like.

Genealogy is so fun, very addictive, frustrating and other emotions! I am so proud of my daughter who keeps finding more and more names and dates. I always seem to hit dead ends, where Carol knows other places to look I guess.