Once again it’s time for Daylight Saving Time. Turn your clocks back before you go to sleep Saturday night, or at 2 a.m. if you’re still up.

I remember my younger days and loving the extra hour at the bars!

I’ve been doing some genealogy recently and here’s some information about cousin relationships.

There are two different parts to the relationship definition. One is the degree of cousinship; first, second, third, fourth, etc. The second is the remove; once removed, twice removed, thrice or three times removed, etc.

Here is the degree:

First cousins share one set of grandparents. Grandpa and Grandma have more than one child. The children of those children are first cousins.
Second cousins share a set of great-grandparents. Your children and your cousin’s children are second cousins.
Third cousins share a set of great-great-grandparents. Your grandchildren and your cousin’s grandchildren are third cousins.
Fourth cousins share a set of great-great-great-grandparents. Your great-grandchildren and your cousin’s great-grandchildren are fourth cousins.

This continues on generation after generation.

Now for the removes.

Each remove is a generation. Your cousin’s children are your first cousins, once removed. They are your childrens’ second cousins.
Your cousin’s grandchildren are your first cousins, twice removed. They are your childrens’ second cousins, once removed. They are your grandchildrens‘  third cousins.

I married my husband 16 years ago today.

It’s time to Spring Ahead! Daylight Saving Time is once again upon us. Time to lose an hour’s sleep! At 2 am it’s time to set the clocks ahead to 3 am. Or, just set your clocks ahead before you go to sleep if you don’t want to stay up so late.

Personally I think Daylight Saving Time is a waste of time and money. So many adjustments to be made. Television and radio schedules all eff’d up, people show up late to things because they hadn’t reset their clocks. Finding that one clock you didn’t set months later…

Daylight Saving Time

My cousin’s daughter, mother of a six-month-old herself, has started a blog called Not Your Average Mama.

Go visit!

Learn or acquire the skills, and you’ll be worth more to the employer.

Luke 2: 10-11

¹⁰And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

¹¹For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

KJV

Merry Christmas to all!

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