Thursday, April 25, 2024
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Things to Think About on Thursday
Family TREE
SUPER INTERESTING
For each of us to be born we need:
2 Parents
4 Grandparents
8 Great-grandparents
16 Great-Great grandparents
32 Great-great great-grandparents
Okay, you can stop here as you get the idea. But if you want to continue, it's mind-boggling and too much for my brain to comprehend. I don't even know these words.
64 Pentagrandparents
128 Hex-grandparents
256 Heptagrandparents
512 Octagrandparents
1024 Grandparents
2048 Decabuelos
Just the total of the last 11 generations, it took 4,094 ANCESTRALS, all of this in approximately 300 years before we were born!
Stop for a moment and think...
Where did they come from?
How many fights have they fought?
How much hunger have they gone through?
How many wars have they experienced?
How many things did our ancestors survive?
On the other hand, how much love, strength, joy and encouragement did they bequeath us?
How much of their strength to survive, each one of them had and left within us so that we are alive today.
Pretty crazy to think of it like this. So much to comprehend---and we just go about our lives living and not really thinking--ever--what it took to get here.
I'm very grateful to all of my ancestors for producing this pretty lucky gal!
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
What I Buy Wednesday
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Travel Tuesday
Me On Monday
Well, maybe--a fortune--we'll see. I was wondering how they were going to do it. They ended up taking out the dishwasher and removing the cabinet doors and drawers. Christy said they worked on it all day Friday and were exhausted because it was a beast to get out! Oh and they had to replace all the drains because they could not use the old ones. At least they'll be all shiny and new too. Now that I think about it, it must have taken 4 guys because who is taking the picture? He must be the granite guy. Christy said he was coming to make sure the granite wasn't damaged.