| | I certainly made up for some lost time with those long-ass entries.
I went to Arkansas-land with my stepfather + fam. We even got our
pickcher taken at a National Military Park for posterity.
If you're ever at Pea Ridge, your new scavenger hunt goal is to find
that photo.  The big kid did the Jr. Ranger thingy
there. That's actually a good idea. It gets the kids to
stop and look, but to keep up also. He found every answer but
one, and that's because we didn't watch all the films. The Ranger
gave him that answer and gave him his Jr. Ranger badge. He showed
it off quite happily.
Several
members of my stepfather's family are really into genealogy, so I got a
few sheets with family info up several generations. My gramma on
that side was one of 11 children. 10 of them lived to adulthood
and most of those went on to make more babies and grandbabies.
One of my s-f's cousins made this really cool DVD/slide-show with a
whole bunch of photos and bits of history. It was mostly the
photos, and she did a beautiful job of labeling who's who and stuff
like that. We've added a whole bunch of stuff to our Family
Tree.  actually bought a new family tree program that does a
lot of the work for you. It's pretty cool once you get the hang
of it. I guess I was too used to the home-brew Tree we had going
on.
The little kid and I went to the library yesterday. We had some
overdue books. Apparently I remembered right about the 24-hour
grace period, because they didn't ask me for any money. I checked
out probably 5 more, and he got 3 movies. No books for him this
time. Ah well. Today, the big kid neeeeeeeeeeded to go to
the library. I managed to finish the one book I'd rechecked
yesterday, so I gave in and returned it, letting him go check out some
books. He picked 4 Star Wars books. He wandered all over
the children's library with the librarian. "I think the author's
name starts with a W, and it's sci-fi. Well, there's this other
author that starts with an E. Edmonds? Oh, there's an
author Matthews that I like...." I think she lost 5 pounds
following the little goob around before he finally gave in and settled
on the Star Wars series.
I'm'a gonna go read some books and make this a shorter entry than the previous ones. 
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