Wow, It's Been Forever...

It has been forever since I last posted a blog here. Actually, I don't know if anyone even reads or looks at this blog. I guess maybe if I was better at keeping something new here, somebody might want to read it. I am pretty good at keeping out homeschool/life blog updated but I just sort of forget about this one. I need to get better with this one so, this is my attempt to make that happen. I really don't have anything specific to blog about today so this is sure to be a very random entry. Oh well, life is random, right?

I was laying in bed the other night and thinking about my childhood. We were not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination but one thing we were is HAPPY. We lived a very simple life for the most part. We spent a few years living in houses with no electricity or indoor plumbing. Some may think that is crazy or even a horrible way to live. I count it as a blessing, to have been able to experience that life. There are even days, I think it would be so nice to live like that again. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate all the advantages of modern life but some days, the thought of living in a simplistic life would be so nice. The rush and hustle and bustle and the give me more attitude gets tiresome. It is funny to me though, how we call the "old fashioned"way of life, simple, but yet, it required so much more work. People had to work for everything, there was no instant gratification but yet we call it simple. Anyway, I am so glad I experienced the "simple life" and will always treasure the memories I have of that.
I took the kids to a festival here in town on Saturday, Old Effingham Day. We toured some of the displays demonstrating early life in this county. One of the old houses we went into had the kitchen set up and they were actually cooking on an old wood stove. Kristen was amazed that people used that to cook, and when I told her, that is what I learned to cook on she was even more amazed! The lady doing the cooking was also surprised when I told her that. Anyway, back to my thoughts the other night. I decided I needed to journal all those stories, or memories, from my childhood days. As I was telling the lady there, it is so neat to me that even though I am not that old, I still knew what that lifestyle was like to a certain extent. There are not many 30 something year olds that have experienced that. I am lucky, I did. I was thinking how much I loved listening to my mama and daddy telling stories about their lives, and also still love hearing stories from older family members such as my grandmother and aunts and uncles. Now that my parents are gone, I wish that I had all the stories that had told me recorded so I could remember them better. Anyway, I have decided to try to write down my own stories so that my children will have them, as well as my grandchildren and great grandchildren. I am going to try to make this on ongoing effort, by writing them down as I remember them. I am not talking about big events, although, I am sure there will be some of that, but more just the daily life things that happened. Things like funny stories about things we did as kids, or just our day to day life is what I want to focus on. When Kristen was surprised about the old wood cooking stove, it made me realize how many stories there are, that haven't been told. It also reminded me how many stories my parents/grandparent told me that I don't remember, or at least don't remember all the details. I want my kids to have stories to be able to tell their kids. I am trying to decide if I should just write them all here or if I should start a whole new blog for that. Once I have a good bit typed out, I want to print it and make it into a book of some sort.

More to come later....I need to get something accomplished today.