You can read my 2017 report card here.  Other report cards in other years are usually posted around December 31st of each year.  The 2018 report card, much like the 2018 year, has gotten completely derailed.  This year my daughter and her two sons moved in with us.  While I really love having them around, my research and writing time doesn’t exist anymore.  And that’s okay.  Life should be spent on those we have with us – in building relationships with the people God has given us.  I do miss writing very much but I’m sure I’ll get back to it at some point in the future.  In the meantime, I’m searching for cousins to do guest posts about once a month.  This is your big chance, guys!  Contact me.  I have a newly found cousin who is currently writing a guest post about her family that married into our family.  I hope I’ll be able to post that for you soon.
In the meantime, let’s talk about 2018 for a bit.

Frankly, I didn’t meet any goals.  I am meeting a multi-year goal in that I am finally getting my genealogy records unpacked and organized and I have a designated space for them.  It’s taking a while but I’ll get there.
2019
In 2019, I’m just going to focus on unpacking and organizing all my records so that I can go into 2020 in a better place with my genealogy.  I’ll be looking for cousins who are willing to write guest posts this year – if that’s you PLEASE let me know!  Hopefully, I’ll have time to post some of the records I unpack from time to time and share them with you.
So this year (as I sometimes told my elementary students), “you get what you get and you don’t throw a fit”! As a small consolation prize, I give you this cousin photo.

Above: Christmas at the Bates home.  Left to right back row: me (Lisa), Clayton, Terry.  Front row left to right: Doyle, Tracy, Cortney.  If I mis-identified someone let me know asap!
Until next time,