JULY 24th : Old Photo Of A Family Member & What Is Holding You Back?

AN OLD PHOTO OF A FAMILY MEMBER

 These are my Great, Great, Great, Great Grandparents ... Christian and Johanna Gessner, this is from my Mom's mom's side ... This is the oldest photo of ancestors I have  .... I have several photos of my Great Grandparents on my Mom's Mom's side (so my Grandma's parents)

This is my Great Grandpa Dana and his sister Beth

This is my Great Grandpa Dana and the "Milk Carriage"

This is my Great Grandmother with my Grandmother's older sister Beverly who had birth injuries and then had medical issues/mental disabilities her whole life.  It was said that the forceps were used during the birth, and ended up doing damage to her brain. 

This is my Grandmother (5-5-22 is her birth date not the day that was taken) ... that label, that is my Grandmother's handwriting .....  she labeled the photo of herself ... 

This is my Grandmother with her older sister (Beverly) and her younger brother (Jesse)

This is my Grandfather Larry (Lawrence) ...  he had a big of a story well before his own very first memory.  Back in my Great-Grandparents time... there was this little old thing called Tuberculosis, you might have heard about it ....    My Grandfather's parents had both contracted it before his birth.  My Great-Grandfather had been married and divorced, and had a daughter ...  for whatever reason, that marriage didn't last and they ended up in California and I don't know why or what happened.  But then William (Great-Grandfather) had met Olga (Great-Grandmother) ...  they had their first child, Irene (born in 1919) and I think between the birth of Irene and the pregnancy of my Grandfather they both had contracted Tuberculosis ....  so they made arrangements.  Irene went to go live with a member of the family, and right after my Grandfather was born (in 1921), he went to my Great-Grandfather's sister and was adopted by her and her husband.  He ended up being their only child so I suspect there were some issues with her being able to have children.... Two months after my Grandfather was born, my Great-Grandfather (his Dad) died....   We had originally been told that he had died before the birth, but it was after.   So William died in Sept. 1921 (my Grandfather was born in July 1921) and then Olga had gotten married again, and died Nov. 1924.... the year my Grandfather had turned 3. 

And these were my Grandparents on their wedding day .... 

Beyond these .......  I can trace my Grandmother Berneil's side (confirmed) back to Rollo the Viking ... to William the Conqueror who was also a King of England (and the generations between them) ... to Kings Henry I, II & III, Kings Edward I, II & III ... which is pretty freaking cool and definitely the furthest back I can go (but there are a few other lines I haven't gone back with) .... AND ... with Dennis ... I can trace his ancestors back to nobility also, but I have to totally double check things with his line because I get two different things... so I gotta confirm and re-confirm - but the way it looks, my ancestors REALLY loved to kill his ancestors ... 

BUT I can - confirmed - trace his back to a woman who was accused, tried and hung as a Salem Witch. 

WHAT IS HOLDING YOU BACK?

I don't consider myself being "held back" .....

I look forward to what life will hopefully look like in a few years ...

It All Started With A Nightmare....

So I'm working on blogs and just got to my wall.  Only have two left and now today's .... but I just couldn't anymore. So I started watching FINDING MY ROOTS ...  Love this show.  Turns out I'm related to one of them, they are related to all the British Royalty that I am....  (that, btw, is my awesome background on my laptop) .... 

3:15 AM ........ Kaedyn whispers....
Kaedyn:  Mom?
Me:  Yeah?
Kaedyn: I just had a nightmare.....
Me: Do you want to talk about it?

I paused the TV.  There was a bit of a pause .... I thought he fell back to sleep.

Kaedyn:  There was a snake.....  and it was walking...
Me:  There was a snake?
Kaedyn:  Yeah, and it was walking.
Me:  Did it have feet?
Kaedyn:  No...
Me:  So it was slithering ....
Keadyn:  Yeah, and I had to catch it....and the tongue got on me.
Me: So it licked you?
Kaedyn: Yeah.  And I had to get it away.
Me;  Why did you have to catch it?
Kaedyn: I just thought........ I was home.
Me: Home?
Kaedyn:  Yeah
Me:  So you thought you had to get it away from your family?
Kaedyn: Yeah   (after a bit of a pause, he lifts up his left arm and points to about the middle of his arm between his elbow and wrist.)  It got right here!
Me:  You were in your bed? It licked you right there?
Kaedyn:  Yeah, right there.  And we were outside somewhere.

It must have been pretty vivid.

Went from watching that to LIVE PD....  even DB woke up and was getting into it.

I didn't go to sleep.  It just didn't happen.  I was worried and trying to figure out some answers for Nathan.

He ended up waking up around 4:30 AM ... I started asking him a bunch of questions.  I started some fluids around 5 AM...

Kaedyn woke up too .... .

I finally went to sleep around 7AM and DB woke me up around 9:30 AM after he got off the phone with the clinic, who basically told him that after my taking him in last week for the same thing we needed to just take him into Seattle ....  so we started to pack up and prepare JUST IN CASE ... figuring that if we were prepared, we wouldn't have to stay ....  Murphy's Law ...

We had to stop at WalMart before leaving town, and we got Subway to eat on the way there and for the way back if we didn't stay.  Nathan got his typical sandwich only he didn't want pickles and he wanted tomatoes.  This is the first time he's asked for tomatoes...  and he loved it!

We are goofy ....

On the road..... 

2 1/2 hours of sleep - and I still didn't sleep on the way there....

Nathan looking out the window at the water ....  he was telling me he loves the water....  we can never move.... ever.... and then the funny faces started

Seattle

Tunnels in Seattle....

We love the little solar garden at Seattle Children's ....

At the ER....

The back of one of the little kid chairs...

I got some WONDERFUL photos of him in the waiting room....

Once we got in the back, we were talking to the doctor.  We watched two Justice League Lego Movies, which Nathan did NOT want to watch, but he loved.  He was very nauseated.  They did an x-ray to make sure that he wasn't backed up (he wasn't.) But funny story, his shirt (glow in the dark Triceratops PJ shirt) showed up on X-Ray....   They did some blood work (tough moment.  They were going to do an IV of fluids, but his IV blew when they did the blood draw too) ...  we were there for a long time.  Yet again I got complimented on doing some trouble shooting at home and being in touch with his symptoms, etc.  Poor DB was falling asleep while the doc was chatting with us.  All in all, they decided to test run a feed, which he did well during.  He got a nausea pill and could finally ditch the puke bag for a bit.  Then when they started the feed his nausea came back but at least he did not throw up. They got him in for a GI appointment ASAP ...  so as soon as they can squeeze us in, and know when, they are going to call me.  We were asked to continue to trouble shoot at home.  They put him on a tummy med.... and gave us nausea pills...

Kaedyn called me at one point.  I talked to him a little bit, updated Cal on what was going on.  Then I sat by Nathan and turned it so he could see the camera and he burst into tears.  "I miss Bubba" he said...

Eventually there wasn't anymore movies that I thought he'd go for so we went into his tablet world, which was good because he would end up needing it anyway due to the IV/blood draw....

I got two new notebooks while we were at Walmart earlier and I love the covers...

Seattle at night....  on our way out of town.

So I figured I'd get some work done while going down the road.  Let me tell you ... blogging on the road is pretty awesome!!

I was tired and a bit delusional when we got home.....

#OneTiredMomma ....  for sure.

We gave Nathan another bag of Pedialyte tonight ....  figured we'd go from there after that...

It's been awhile....... or ... For-Ev-Ah!

Sooooooo ....  yeah.  I failed, super quick, at the whole 366 day thing.  Um.... yeah.

FAIL!

Whatever...  I had good intentions.  You can tell by the amount of unpublished entries I have.  What?  You can't see them?

Well... they are there.........  like... 30 of them.

Anyway ........ need to jump right back in right?   RIGHT!

So........

Here is the skinny from today......

The adopted one (Kale) was all up in my biznitz (nah not really) and wanted to know if any of his forefathers were in the Revolutionary War.  SO I found one.  Yep!  I was sending him all the information and .......

When I was telling him more about it (this is after he was in my room like 300 times this morning waking me up making conversation about the little bit I sent him in a message last night telling me how cool it was) ... and I was telling him that I had seen that one of his whatever times great granddaddies was the Grandfather of multi-million dollar many hats Howard Hughes JR & SR.  Well, so I was trying to find it and I FINALLY figured it out and then I realized something....  something just ain't right about all this.   So I managed to pound out a FB status about it ...

Clusterfuck of Genealogy ... written word vs. documentation. So doing Kale's genealogy - Cookson side - we ran into a "Your 5x Great Grandfather was the Grandfather to Howard Hughes and Great Grandfather to Howard Hughes Jr." AWESOME, right? WRONG. Now we're in a confused state..... because Howard Hughes' father was Felix Hughes... Felix Turner Hughes ... but... Felix Turner Hughes had an imposter of (I think, a cousin) Felix Moner Hughes. For some reason, Felix Turner Hughes disappeared during war and the other Felix (Felix M. Hughes) took his place. BUT.... one of them had no kids, and the other had a crap load .... so .... where is Maury when I need him to tell me who da daddy is? Seriously ....... (and that wasn't the only cousin to take the place of a cousin in this story of the Hughes.... oye!) Although - it doesn't matter for the fact that Kale's genealogy is intact, because, his 5x Great Grandfather, had his 4x Great Grandfather who was Felix's (the real one's) brother John. Did you follow that? No? Well ... now you know why we're confused....

I've wrapped my head around it now. It is said (and I have seen it in a few places now) that Felix M. Hughes wasn't a cousin, just a neighbor of the same last name. He took on Felix Turner Hughes name after the real Felix Turner Hughes died during the war. Now, Felix M. Hughes (the real one that turned imposter as Felix T. Hughes) is the one that fathered Howard Hughes (as Felix T. Hughes) ... but it's documented places that it's truly Felix M. Hughes that married and had children. Boo - so - sorry Kale, no relation... I take that back, no biological relation - but an adoptive family way - yeah!

Ummmmmmmm yeah.  So.........

Yeah.

There was that.

Took me all day to gather my brain around that one..

But in all that time - from this morning until tonight .....  I had an eye DR appt ....  and yeah.

I need glasses.  YES I HAVE GLASSES... but they are the kind you can get from Walmart for ten bucks ... yeah...

Now I need REAL glasses....

I think the my sensory thresh-hold has disappeared tonight. Had an eye doctors appointment. Now..... a little history here - my parents, one is nearsighted - the other is farsighted, together ... they "perfected" my eyesight. That's the joke that's gone around anyway - since I was little. Now, my last eye appointment three years ago (big no no with Diabetes!) I just needed a mild reading glass, something I could just get from Walmart - a +1 ... nothing major. I ended up picking up a +1.25 or a +1.50, I forget which but they have worked for the last three years. I had to replace them once, because they somehow got broken in my bag, and that's it. I love my glasses. So today - at my appt ... I was telling my eye doc (after he yelled at me - whoops!) how my vision has been really blurry lately and how I am having a really hard time seeing, and even my reading glasses haven't been working for the past couple of months. So he's flipping the lenses, and I definitely need an eye glass prescription. Then we do the reading glasses and holy crap. I need BIFOCALS??? Ummmmmmmm no thank you. He said the reading glasses thing just comes with age, usually everyone starts needing them around 40 he said. LOL. And my sight isn't so bad, but my astigmatism is REALLY bad now. That's what's blurring my vision up pretty bad. So yeah. Oh and no diabetes symptoms in my eyes - woooohooooooo  Guess I'm getting glasses! Too bad insurance won't cover any of it. Bugger!

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Yeah....... so that happened.

And then ....... this made my day.  I was feeding my little grandbelly and ....

Totally made my day....