Up-Date

Well I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We sure did, eat way too much but that’s part of Thanksgiving. I have no idea why but our Thanksgiving went very smooth. We had set 4:00 for our meal, which is our normal time and I’m always rushing around to get everything done and ready to eat. Then it’s well after 4:00 before we set down to eat. Well this year, I have no idea why, everything went together and we sat down at 4:07. I didn’t do anything different. Made the pies, salad, got the table dressed and everything else I could do early done on Wednesday. So we set a record. Now we’ll see how Christmas dinner goes.

We got the tree up and the house decorated. We always start Friday after Thanksgiving and it takes several days to do it all. I grew up putting our Christmas tree up on Friday after Thanksgiving and people always told us we were crazy. Now-a-days people have theirs up after Halloween, which to me is just not right. You have to give thanks first. I won’t even let my son play Christmas music until the evening of Thanksgiving.

Anyway, everything is done and now it’s time to concentrate on presents. I swear it gets harder the older the kids get!

I had to put my research on hold but am now hoping to get back to it at least a little before Christmas gets here. I’m working on my last family line, Nance, entering all info into my Family Tree Maker. I had never entered them so it’s along slow process. To tell you the truth I had even forgot I had done my Nance line mainly because the Nance line starts with my 4th great grandmother, Elizabeth Nance. She married Burrell Warren, which Warren is my maiden name. I’m really wanting to get the Nance all entered before Christmas because after the 1st of the year I starting a new project. Going through all of the Warren information I have gathered for probably going on 20 years now, organizing and putting it together into a book. It’s going to be a long process.

Merry Christmas!