Over the course of my lifetime I have had many varied interests and hobbies. Often I tend to become so absorbed in one of them that I exclude the others so this is my attempt to incorporate them all and find time to work on each one of them for at least a few minutes a week. My main loves besides my husband and children and their families are: Quilting (actually sewing and patchwork), Genealogy and Scrapbooking.
I became interested my genealogy in 1983 when I was pregnant with my third child. I concentrated on that until about 1988. Then my daughter Karen, who was 4 at the time, had health problems and died 2 years later. I was wrapped up with that and learning to deal with a new "normal" for my life.
I did a lot of scrapbooking from about 1994 to 2004. Then I took up quilting for the last 7 years. I love each of these hobbies with a passion and want to be able to enjoy time on all three of them.
My goal since August 2010 has been to not buy more fabric projects to quilt with until most of my "ufos" (unfinished objects) were done. I have actually been doing very well on this.
Since I had to take my sewing machine to the shop 5 days ago, my current goal is to organize my genealogy so that it is easily accessible and easy to understand just how far I have come. I also would love to write brief historical essays on each of my great-grandparents.
My next goal is to get back into scrapbooks, since I now have a grandson, Maxwell who will be one year old tomorrow! Happy Birthday Maxwell! I love you! I have so many pictures of his dad and mom that I want to get into a book, so he can see what they looked like as children and when they were first married.
I thought that if I start blogging about my goals and see them written down, as a visual learner, they will become more real to me. Also I want to journal more, so that relatives who come after me will understand why I do the things I do!
In organizing the genealogy, I am combining my mother's work (she concentrated on her lines), and mine (I took my dad's side and my husband's side). Plus scanning old documents and photographs so there are digital copies of them before something happens to them!
Well, I do believe that this is enough for one night, especially since we are having Max's birthday party at our house tomorrow! Thanks for reading this
