This is the conversation in the backseat of my car yesterday.Tyler was giving a dissertation on Asterzoids and Morgan chimes in, “When I was a baby and I had none teeth I eat squishy stuff.” Continue reading

Recovered genealogy source — March 10, 2007. Peter Zeimet emailed Danielle a packet of scanned family-history material while she was working on the AraBelle/Pearl Harbor project. The original 2007 mailbox still contains the attached scans. The recovered packet includes a preface/first-page correction, twelve pages of Zeimet family-history material, and two pages titled as a history… Continue reading

Recovered family-history scan sent by Peter Zeimet on March 10, 2007. The transcription below preserves the wording and spelling visible in the surviving scan. One store name appears to read “Loflon” and is left as scanned rather than silently corrected. The Michael Zeimet Family Mike and Grace Zeimet lived in a little house on his… Continue reading

Morgan has officially moved into the 3’s and 4’s class (he’s basically potty trained now — the big pre-req for the move) and won’t be 3 until April 15 — Tyler on the other hand almost skipped the 3’s and 4’s all-together (I think he finally got in somewhere around 3 3/4 years old). This… Continue reading

If it is Spring I must be working much too hard to launch another website under tight deadlines — and I’m losin’ it. This time it is the virtual tech fair at work. It’s gotten to the point where I’m promising Fat Mama’s Knock You Naked Margarita Mix to my vendors to help me out… Continue reading

Matt met the boys and I for lunch and he asked if the boys had been good — Morgan’s reply “I’ve been just a little bit naughty — but just a little bit.” Well, at least he is honest. Continue reading

Recovered family correspondence — March 4–6, 2007. While Danielle was developing the family/Pearl Harbor book and website, Jo Zeimet questioned parts of the developing family narrative and supplied memories she had heard from her mother. March 4 — Jo You write well. A couple of thoughts — Have you decided your perspective? In other words,… Continue reading

The other night Matt ran out to Home Depot and I asked if he would like to pick me up a little something sweet (I was thinking ice cream). Matt brought me home a sweet little primrose, I accused him of thinking I was fat. Poor Matt. Continue reading

Recovered Grandma Project research correspondence — March 5, 2007. Jo asked whether I had read or seen From Nightingale to Eagle: An Army Nurse’s History, noting that it covered the same World War II period and referenced the head nurse connected to the Pearl Harbor nursing story. She offered to acquire a copy if I… Continue reading

Recovered family correspondence — March 5, 2007. While reviewing Danielle’s draft family-history introduction, Peter Zeimet corrected part of the story. You are good with words. I somehow do not remember the “she fell in love with the milkman”. She married the milkman and Jim Solomon was a patient in the hospital and he married the… Continue reading