It has been a rather uneventful winter and the life of this blog has suffered because of it. I've had some complaints from some of our most faithful readers, so here is a bit that goes on in our ordinary, everyday life. Not very exciting, but it is what it is.
Cole and Heather sliding. Teamwork to carry the sled back up the hill. A rare moment - you won't very often see these two working together at anything except an argument.
On another day, Heather and I did some "sock mopping." All you need is some tunes, a tub of warm water, and some socks that have seen better days, and away you go.
I wasn't expecting much, but the floors actually looked pretty good after this.
Wayne has been playing basketball this winter in the Jr. Hoops league, 4th grade thru 6th grade. This morning he had a game against the other Glover team. It's hard to get nice photos in the fluorescent lighting of the gym.
As always, when it's Glover against Glover, it was intense and close. There are such good players on both teams. The other Glover team was "home" and Wayne's team was "guest." Wayne's team did end up winning the game by 2 points.
Wayne has been bitten by the genealogy bug. Joanie and Natalie Kinsey-Warnock have been coming weekly to his 4th grade class to work on family histories and to eventually write stories which will be compiled into a book. Yesterday, he and Joanie spent about 5 hours at her house researching the family tree on ancestry.com. Then he came home and worked on it some more by himself in the evening. This is above and beyond what he needs to do for his class, but he's just really into it. He can't get enough.
This is a 20x30 poster board that he and Joanie made and that he has added to on his own. I'm sure you can't tell from the photo, but it goes back to 1585!
That's a lot of work.
Holy Moly Family Tree! That's amazing work Wayne... you must feel like an investigator researching all of this. Maybe you could display this at the next big family gathering?
ReplyDeleteWhat's going on with that family tree? I want a big photo so I can see it all and read it all! Good job Wayne! I laughed about Heather and Cole fighting. I wonder if Wesley and I fought a lot when we were 6 and 9? I remember playing all the time with him.
ReplyDeleteDarlene, you never need to say that they are just ordinary days...they always seem jam packed to me!! I like postings on any kind of day! I loved the sliding videos, basketball shot, and sliding video. And I am still in awe over the genealogy!
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Julie, even in a big photo, the print is just too small to see in a photo. Maybe Joanie could give a link to the site. I'm not sure you can get in without a password.
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to clarify that I really did not do the chart at all except for going downstairs to look for a big piece of posterboard. I did apply glue stick to some of the backs of the paper, but really for the most part Wayne did all the typing, the cutting of the names, the positioning on the posterboard...he caught on quickly to using other people's family trees to find the next set of ancestors going back in time on lines that we didn't have already listed in Dad's work. He knows how to check census records for dates to try to determine if the family is a match. He is just really good at it all, and obviously very motivated and interested to stick with it that long! We took three lines of the Perron side of the family back to France, and one of our lines (off the Hyde line I, think) and then Darlene's side to Liverpool, with many lines still not even on the chart yet.
ReplyDeleteJulie I will send you my password so you can look at it.
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Hooray for the blog entry! Dan, Grammie, and I love, love, love seeing pictures of W,C,&H. Wayne is brave to play basketball with mostly older boys. I heard he made his first basket about a week ago. Hooray!
ReplyDeleteCole and Heather look like they are having a lot of fun sliding. I can see that Spike enjoys being out with them, too!
What a cute idea to get kids to help clean and get a little exercise as well, when it comes to washing the kitchen floor. Perhaps I should try it here at home!
Forgot to say how impressed I was with Wayne and his genealogy chart. Joan called Grammie last night and went on and on about how Wayne was really into family history now and worked for hours on it!
ReplyDeleteLooks like fun sliding up there!
ReplyDeleteSo excited that Wayne is into researching family history. He really has the best guide there is to help him get started! Joan, think you could get him to decipher mid-19th century handwriting?
How special to have a local author come to your classroom! Loved the sock mopping idea! xo
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