Today is a bittersweet day. My son's family just moved to Raleigh, NC about four hours away. For all of my two granddaughters lives, ages sixteen and seven, I have taken them to school and back and cared for them while their mother and dad worked. Already I miss them terribly.
However, their leaving has opened up a new opportunity for me to write uninteruptedly. I do so enjoy sitting at the computer and doing research. It is fulfilling when my research provides answers to questions I have had about the family. Just this week I was able to tell my husband that his sixth greatgrandfather was a French Huguenot pastor in Santee, SC. (And he always thought he was the first pastor in his family line).
God has blessed our family in so many ways--spiritually and materially. Just recently we have become the owners of a motorhome (the cabover kind). Never mind that it is a 1991 model. We're looking forward to a trip in it next week to do research. Of course our first stop will be Raleigh and we'll "camp" in our son's yard. While there I plan to do research at the UNC library and at the NC Archives. On Thursday we plan to visit Bladen County where our Russ ancestors settled after leaving the Charleston area.
Oh, by the way, we are trailering our Suzuki trike as a means of getting from place to place while doing research. I hope we can stand the 100 plus degress heat and that it doesn't rain.
My dear sweet husband of nearly fifty eight years is waiting to take me out to dinner in a restaurant that has just opened up in our community.
More later,
June
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