Today, we're looking at my fourth and final set of great-grandparents. As far as my maternal side goes, these are the folks I know the most about, as well as the Italian side I'm researching most ...
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Great-Grandparents: The Bartlett-Galfre Side
Great-Grandparents: The Feola-Burrell Side
Now we're going to look at what is, perhaps, the most "controversial" side of my family. For my maternal grandfather's entire life, we believed his father was Herbert Benjamin Haley, Sr. of Brockton, ...
Great-Grandparents: The Shaw-Blake Side
I started a series of posts an embarrassingly long time ago to talk about my 4 sets of great-grandparents, and I'm finally revisiting and finishing that series. This week, we're looking at my ...
2024 Plans and More
We are well into 2024 and it has already been a little bit of an adventure! My son got his driver's license which activated Worried Mom Mode. But he seems to be doing just fine, driving himself to and ...
December Journal
Here is my belated look back at December 2023. It was a month of anticipation for a number of reasons – all of our birthdays, anniversary, holidays, the recall election… There was so much going on, ...
November Journal
Ah, November. The month when the holiday season really ramps up and, for some, causes more stress than usual. Thankfully, that's not how we roll here. Samhain (October 31) is what I consider the ...
October Journal
October was such an eventful month, that I'm ready for hibernation. :) I spent as much time as I could gathering petition signatures in hopes of initiating a recall election in the Plattsmouth School ...
Book Banning & Definitions
With everything going on not only in the town of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, but all over the United States, I thought it would be good to dig into some facts and definitions. First of all, the women ...