Now I thought I wouldn't get into the whole family history kick for another 30, 40 years, but let's face it---I already act like an 80 year old woman. I go to bed early, and I get up early. McKay was invited to a birthday party last week that started at the ridiculous hour of 6 p.m. and lasted until, gasp, 7:30! For a girl who's usually in bed by 6:30, I knew this was going to be difficult. For a mom who usually has her pajamas on by 6:00, I knew this was going to be difficult for me as well. Luckily this late hour didn't interfere with dinner, because like the elderly, we tend to eat dinner insanely early. Some members of our family, o.k. all members of our family, tend to get irritable when hungry. So I kept moving the time we ate dinner up earlier and earlier. We rarely ever eat dinner later than 5:30. And on occasion, I am almost embarrassed to say, when I am extremely hungry we eat at 4:45. I'm pretty much a natural at the geriatric lifestyle, so it's no wonder this family history thing appealed to me.
Anyway, I started tracing me family history back through my mom's side of the family, and I noticed it just kept going. I started getting excited to think I might actually break from the quadruple digit dates into the triple ones. Sure enough I found ancestors born in the 900's. My comments ("I'm related to Warrin the Bald! I'm a bazillion great-granddaughter of Charlemagne!) attracted Parker's attention. He came over to watch our family tree unfold, and he too got caught up. "Hey, mom," he said with complete sincerity, "do you think we're related to Adam?"
So after about two hours of mouse clicking, an amazing thing happened. "Wait, a second," I mumbled. "Did I just find Judah, son of Jacob and Leah? Seriously?" Then once I hit Shem, son of Noah, I knew I was going to make it. And yes, I traced my heritage all the way back to Adam!
"Chris! Chris!" I exclaimed, "I traced my family history back to Adam!"
"Congratulations."
"You're not acting excited enough."
"You're acting like you actually did the research."
"I just spent two hours of my life clicking a mouse. Seriously hard work."
"Call your mom. She can be excited with you."
She was. Thank you, mom.
7 comments:
In my defense, I had just woken up from a nap when you said this.
Dad's reply was, "after 30 years of trying to figure out how to geneology, Kodie did it in 2 hours? He said we were born in the wrong generation.
I'm excited for you! And we are about as geriatric as you guys, though we can't eat dinner until 6pm since my hubbby doesn't get home until then, but sometimes I cheat & eat before, then act like I haven't eaten yet!
So if I just find an ancester in common with you I don't have to go any futher? Because, I am leaving it to my sister to link me all the way back to Adam.
I love reading your blog you have such a way with words. You can make any situation more interesting and funny. Have you ever thought about writing a book? I think you would be good at it.
I loved the "do you think we are related to Adam?" question. So funny.
I agree. Kodie should write a book.
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