Day in the Life of a Retiree

November 30, 2007
Today we are at our oldest son's house babysitting our 10 month old grandson. We do this most Fridays. It has been a great experience. We love him to death and to watch him grow and learn new things each week has been precious. We get up at 5:00am to avoid the bridge traffice, have breakfast at Bob Evans and then get to the house around 7:30am. Today he was still sleeping when we got here but woke up at about 8, had some breakfast, and is now down for a nap. He has decided that he likes to try and climb stairs now. We stay very close!
Found another line in my genealogy, my grandmother was named Mary Cowe Davidson and she was named after her mother's mother Mary Cowe. I had been trying to get the Cowe line back from her and until the other day had not been successful. But I got a hint when I found her mother living with them when she was a widow. Her name was Agnes Cowe (pronounced Coo). On her death certificate it gave her deceased husband's name of Peter Cowe and her maiden name as Robertson. I could then start viewing the census' of Scotland and found Peter and Mary and their umteen children including my grandmother's mother Margaret Cowe. I am now starting to research the families of Margaret's siblings. so far one of the girls married a James Scott and the other a william Martin and of course they all had umteen children.
Also I had been researching the Mack line and had written to a person in Arizona whose name and address I got in the LDS site asking about their research on the Mack line. I thought that we might have come from the same family of Mack's as they do. They have emailed me and we are now corresponding trying to get a connection. Their Mack's come from Cockburnspath in Berwickshire Scotland and so do mine. It is great to find someone else who is researching the same family as you are.
Tonight we are going to stop off at Gibraltar Centre to go to their golf show, you never know what you might find. I need to run over to Best Buy this afternoon while the baby is sleeping to buy an Xmas present too, my younger son needs a better video card for his computer.