Sunday Goals & Updates

THIS WEEK'S GOALS:

First, here's my list of goals for this week.

1. Make cookies - this week's cookie is a Toffee Coffee.

2. Five more quilt blocks for Mackenzie's quilt

3. Vacuum (hardly worthy of putting on the list, but hopefully this will be an easy one)

4. Continue scanning -- create spreadsheet

5.  Hang some pictures 

RECAP:

Okay, now the recap from last week:

1.   Make cookies -- done -- here's the link to my post about them.

2.    Sew five blocks for Mackenzie's quilt - done

3.    Clean my closet - done

Before

After

4.    Scan at least one letter / item per day

I did get some scanning done.  One of the interesting things I scanned was a birth announcement from 1930 from my great aunt and uncle to my grandparents.

    

 

        5.    Work on knitted blanket - I just did this this evening (Sunday).  I'm really struggling to knit the blanket - but I'll keep at it.  Just not every week .. unless I do.

Valentines - from the Past

I decided that it's time to start scanning .. and I ran across this valentine sent to my aunt and uncle on February 14, 1924 (my aunt was 3 1/2 and my uncle 1 1/2).

I can't tell who sent it -- maybe someone else can read it.  

However, I googled the address and found the house on Zillow.

 

It is super cute .. I don't know anything about Delaware, Ohio.  But pretty amazing to find a house that my grandparents used to live in.

Week 2 : Jan 8 - 14

 

 

Jan 8 - Traveling to Virginia

 

 

Jan 9 - cousins

 

 

Jan 10 - getting ready to ride

 

 

Jan 10 - Celebrating life

 

 

Jan 11 - my boys (missing one)

 

 

Jan 11 - just trying to lighten the mood

 

 

Jan 12 - hanging with Nana

 

 

Jan 13  - in the hospital

 

 

Jan 14 - down on the farm

 

Week 13 : March 26 - April 1

 March 26 - Tuile Cookies

March 27 - balance bike

March 28 - funky decorations

March 30 - headed to Tennessee

 March 31 - Curtains hemmed!

April 1 - in Tennessee

Week 12 : March 19 - 25

 

March 19 - helping with the dishes

March 20 - helping with the baking

 

March 21 - Happy Birthday! (she turned three on St. Patrick's Day)
 

 

March 22 - working on the Grinch quilt

March 23 - some more progress

March 24 - mask in hand

March 25

 (this obviously wasn't taken this week but it was my YD's birthday so I decided to post a picture of her from almost 32 years ago ..)

Virginia Beach

My brother-in-law passed away in early January.  So we flew to the East Coast for the funeral.  He lived in Virginia Beach and was buried in Sussex (?) Virginia.

We stayed with my mother-in-law (who is 94) for a couple of days before going down to Virginia Beach.  My mother-in-law lives across the road from my SIL who lives on a farm (in rural Virginia, two hours south of Washington, D.C.).

Here is my MIL with my youngest grandson.  Doesn't she look great?  If I live to 94, I hope to be in as good of health as she is.

My BIL was a career Army guy, so he had a military funeral.

We saw some family members we haven't seen in ages.  Here is our nephew, who currently lives in Austria.  I don't think we had seen him since before we moved to California -- so it's been at least 20 years, maybe more.

Here are the three oldest cousins -- the last time we saw our nieces was at my FIL's funeral -- in 2014.
They were almost teenagers when I began having kids, so there's a huge age difference between them and my kids -- and they also stopped coming around when my kids were little (for various reasons).

The picture below was taken when this same nephew got married .. unfortunately he's not in the picture.

After the funeral there was a reception at my other niece's house.  Here's a pic from there.  Hopefully the animation shows.

That night, my husband and I spent the night at a hotel in Virginia Beach -- it was the easiest thing to do .. (though there was room at my niece's and she had offered).  We needed the break and I'm glad we did it.

I took an early (ish) walk on the beach.

Not a great reason for a visit, but a good trip nonetheless.

In Remembrance ...

Lawrence Edward Wagner 3.27.45 - 1.5.20

My husband's brother passed away this weekend.  He had been sick for a long time -- in May he was not doing well, but made it to my nephew's wedding.  He had liver problems, kidney problems, lung problems, and I don't know what else .. In May, he had trouble walking, but made it there just the same.  We only saw him for a little bit at the wedding.  He and his wife left early ..

 

The next morning, when we thought we'd have a chance to see him, they ended up leaving early to pick their dog up from the vet ... so basically, the picture above, was the last time I saw him. 

In the fall, when things weren't looking good, my husband flew back east to see him.  Again, he didn't get to spend much time with him, but that was the last time he saw him.   

I didn't know Larry well.  We never lived in the same area.  When we were first married, he was in the Army and stationed at Fort Belvoir in Virginia -- we probably could have spent time together then, but didn't.  Then he moved around a bunch, at one point he was in Hawaii.  He most recently was living in Virginia Beach, but before that he was living in New York.  My company used to send me there a few times a year, so we would see him when we were there.

Here's a picture of the two brothers.

Scanning Project

In case you couldn't tell, I've been scanning pictures this week.  Here are pictures of my Great, Great, Grandparents, James Hamilton White and Elizabeth Campbell White.

 

 

I'm not sure if this is the same couple .. I'm thinking not.  What do you think?

Saying Goodbye ...

This is a post I've been putting off since August.  We buried my father in the family plot at Lakeview Cemetery in Calumet, Michigan.

My two sisters came, along with several nieces and one nephew.  One cousin from my mother's side and one from my father's came with their spouses. and a few of my parent's friends.

It was a very, very informal affair.  My sisters and I spoke briefly and then we encouraged others to tell stories about our father.
 

Afterwards, we went to the Eagle Harbor Inn, in Eagle Harbor, Michigan, for a reception.

Then we went to the Lake Breeze for a family picture on the porch.

Here's the picture from after my mom's memorial, 8 years ago.