Becoming a Grandmother

I recently found out that I am going to be a grandmother! It is a wonderful feeling and I can hardly wait for Wednesday, when I find out if the baby will be a boy or girl.

I've been doing some reflecting and I've added more to the document that I began writing originally as a memoir of my own grandparents. Now it has morphed into my life story and is almost fifty pages. I wish I could devote myself full-time to family genealogy. I want to make charts and update information from the family book written by my dad's relatives many years ago. I also want to research my maternal side of the family. Why?

I believe that in life it helps to know to where were you come from in order to arrive at your destination, and your family tree helps in this process. The traits, values, and other characteristics that you have are because you are a unique blend of six people, your parents and your grandparents. Yes, there are other things that factor in the process besides mere biology, but the older I get the more I realize how much I am like different parts of these six people.

As Martha Stewart would say, "It's a good thing."