KG's Hideaway

but I am feeling a little better. I'm at least in a better mood. I'm not ready to choke anyone, and don't expect to need that tactic anytime soon.

I've been going through my grandmother's old pictures so I can scan them in and not just make a disc of them but to try and correct a few things. I'm anxious to get started because I just can't believe how old some of these pictures are. My mother gave my aunt most of the (WTF?) and took them and made copies instead. She kept SOME original pictures but the ratio is definitely off. Either way, I'm excited because these pictures go back to my maternal grandmother's family and there are even some pictures of my maternal grandfather's family... even some little ones of my grandfather before he got his leg cut off at age 10. The even more interesting ones I already got. I found a distant member of our family and she emailed me pictures of my great-grandparents are young people and my great-great-grandfather's ranch.

This is really exciting to me because my maternal grandmother's family is Amish-Mennonite and my great-grandparents died when I was in my 20s, right about the time I wanted to know so much about my family.

They gave me letters that my great uncles had written while they deployed. It was horrible when the youngest, only 19, died in the invasion of Normandy Beach. My great grandparents church split over burying him in the church graveyard because he died fighting and that's a no-no in their church.

Anyway, this ought to be fun.