A look back into familial history

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family bonds, family ties, Mother's day, postaday2013, present

My hubby has already started to spoil me for Mother’s Day. He knows how much I love history in any form and he went to ancestry.com to find out more about my family history. I filled everything out, did the DNA test and shipped it out so when I find out anything, you know that I’ll be writing about it. I think that it’s fascinating to know from whence you came if you are able to find out. I’m excited!!

I know that unlike the celebrities who were featured on the t.v show Who Are You hosted and researched by a Harvard Ph.d academic, I forget his name, whose ancestors all seem to be either famous or important, I’m sure that my family will be ordinary to anyone else but special to me because they are mine.

There are some things that I already know about my family; one grandparent was born in Liverpool, one was born in Paris, another was born in Angouleme France and the fourth was born in Bourg, France. So that is three grandparents from France and one from Great Britain, but perhaps it isn’t as cut and dried as all that. There could have been journeys farther back in time, anything is possible.

I look forward to this journey back in time, I’m very lucky to have a hubby who likes to spoil me.

Cringe-worthy

Do you feel uncomfortable when you see someone else being embarrassed? What's most likely to make you squirm?

I seriously dislike seeing others being embarrassed or put down. It hurts me as much as it hurts them, I hate conflict of all kind, so even if the conflict isn't directed at me but at someone else, I get very uncomfortable and pained. On the other hand, I am helpless when it comes to pratfalls, I keel over in laughter. I know that it's terrible to laugh at someone else's physical mishaps such as what we see for an entire episode of America's Funniest Videos but it is too much for me. My hubby records it just to see me laugh until I cry. I know that no one gets hurt and that type of embarrassment isn't mean or purposefully hurtful. I think that I laugh so hard because I know that I am just a step or two away from falling myself so I sympathize with those poor folk. Perhaps that is why I feel so horribly when I see others being embarrassed, I empathize with them on an emotional level. There is no reason to purposefully make someone feel bad, it's very unkind and I really, really don't like it.