Ancestors

Oh, the things I'll do to get out of housework.  :-)  Yes, I've gotten on to ancestry.com and have pretty much instantly become addicted.  I had a lot of my people and dates from my Mom.  When I called her to tell her I had discovered we were related to Mary Todd Lincoln (on my Dad's side) she told me she already knew!  So was it an aunt or a step-sister of Mary's?  Oh, well, she didn't know - when a person married in to the family she didn't research their lineage.  Ugghh.  So, I'm still researching.  It is a lot of fun and before you know it the morning is gone.  :-) 
    Found the prison record for my grandfather.  He seemed to think it was no big deal to be married to two people - neither of them knew.  :-)  I knew that - the whole family does - hence he was never in my Dad's life.  But it was still wild to see the prison record.  
   Bill's family is a little harder.  Like a lot of them they used the same name over and over with little detail as to who was Sr and who was Jr - so with no dates either - it was a little difficult to decipher who is who - not to mention they came over pretty recently.  His Mom's parents had children almost every year they were married for a while.  Granted some died- but still - pumping out a baby every year...dang.
    So, we've started the guided reading here, at home, now.  Jack and I are reading "Bone Chillers".  It occurred to me this evening that my job is to produce a man who can make a living and hopefully have a decent heart that he sees to his sister.   Now, don't worry - I've got trusts in place for when he isn't so "decent".  :-)   We play football tomorrow.  Jack's team is 4-0.  He insists that I do NOT was his socks.  That's evidently where the "luck" is .  ;-) 
   He's having a tough time of it with the crying and slacking off at practice.  The whole team was behind him at the first cry - but now they've seen though it and have pretty much made fun of him the last time.  He's got to work that one out himself.  I don't have much to tell him that I haven't already.  That child has NEVER made sense.  I swear he cries for the attention - even though he's not getting any.  It was the same when he was a baby - screamed every time he was put in a car seat.  Now, if only once I had let him not sit in a car seat I could see that he would keep up the fit - but never, never did he go without a car seat - still he threw a fit each time.  I guess one thing you can count on is that Jack is always going to be a tough one to figure out.  :-)
  My schedule for tomorrow is get Sal from Lego club at 3:50 - take her to bowling bus by 4 - get Jack to his game by 5:15 and pick up Sal from the bowling bus at 6!  :-)  Oh, it's a fun life!  :-)