Like Finding a Needle in a Haystack

I know it's been a little longer than a week since I posted when my goal was to post at least once a week. But I have a good reason - at least I consider it a good reason.  It has been a crazy week to say the least!  Not only have I been on the search for our history, but I've also been on the search for a job and my sanity.  I believe I've given up on the sanity issue at this point this week but I'm making great strides on the job front at least!

We did make some great finds this past weekend on our family history search though, at least in our eyes.  While looking for family records and pictures from the piles of items we brought home after my father-in-law passed away, we "unearthed" a true treasure.  We found the baby book my mother-in-law kept for my husband which included some interesting details.  We also found my husbands christening outfit!  I'm in the process of planning some layouts for these two special items!  We also the death certificate for my husband's uncle who passed away at 2 years old from lead poisoning in the early 1940's.

It's amazing how once you start to look through pictures you can lose yourself in memories, even when you weren't there.  You can almost see the places and life that took place when you hold an old piece of paper or clipping in your hands.  I look at the pictures of my husband as a child and I see glimpses of girls in his grin or behavior.  Funny thing is we lived less than one mile apart since we were about five years old until we were in high school but never met until we both went away to a vocational school over 30 minutes away in our junior/senior years of high school.

Quite fitting for the week of the Titantic anniversary - funny, I always hated history... til now.