The Lowdown

So, I've decided to change my blog a bit. Nothing drastic.....sorry, for those of you who thought for just a tiny second that the content might get better! I've just decided to just go with the flow and not have a designated day for a certain type of post. Like, Monday's used to be my "Tids N Bits"....but now it will just be random. Kind of like my babbling right now.

The exception to the above rule is Phriday Photo Phinish Phiesta with Candid Carrie. I love doing that! As long as she is hosting, I will be participating! And I post pics all the time anyway...

I think I have an addiction to redoing blogs again. I can't seem to stop. Yesterday I redid my recipe blog (see spotted picture to the left)....and I haven't even updated that blog since October. But I plan on doing that today....so check it out! Isn't it adorable?

I love cows!

I love black and white!

I love it!

I also started a new private blog that I made over yesterday too. I'm going to call it Thicker Than Water...because blood is thicker than water and that blog is going to be all about my family tree. My memory kind of comes and goes it seems. Well, on the way to my family reunion on Christmas Day.....as I was driving in silence for 2 hours....because my mom was in la la land and my Dad and Zander were doing this:

I had plenty of time to think. And memories of previous reunions, conversations I'd had, certain memories just became so clear. I want to write these things down for Zander before I forget.

I ask a million questions to my parents about certain family members and their memories only go back so far. Pictures and dates get more rare as people get older. I don't want to lose all of these. And in this techno age, I really don't have much of an excuse not to.

I wouldn't make the blog private except that it probably wouldn't interest anyone anyway. It would only interest the serial killers out there as it would give them all the info they needed to find me and my family. So, thanks Serial Killers, for ruining this for everyone!

Another project I'm taking on this year (see my list for 2009 below on the left sidebar) is to scan all of our family pictures. This means ALL of the pictures my mother has in boxes....because obviously this was waaay before digital. We're talking some of those orangy 70's photos. I have 6 boxes in my basement that I have sorted into baggies from her house. I don't even know what some of them were from....I'm hoping my mom can fill in dates and names once I get them scanned. One baggy a week is my goal right now.....more if I can.

My mom has more boxes at her house....and then my sister had taken some and it will take me months of reminding her to get those back so I can scan them. Then, my Aunt has a bunch of photo albums from my Grandma's house after she passed away.

Do you know what my Grandma did? Now, she was a sensible woman.....at least I always thought she was. But in looking through her photo albums after she passed away.....well, I have to say she had a weird habit. If she had a photo of someone....and they died.....she wrote the word "deceased" right across their face! Not at the bottom of the photo. Not on the back.

Right. Across. Their. Face!

So, now that they are gone we can't look at them anymore?

Geez, Grandma....what were you thinking????

Ok, that's enough babbling now. Go enjoy your day!