It's General Conference weekend, and I'm currently watching the World Report between sessions. There was a short thing about family history and a comment about how family history is getting a new surge through social media. We've talked about what to do with this blog since it's been pretty dead since we all got on Facebook.
My thought, actually a year or two ago also at General Conference but I never did anything about it, is to use this as our family history repository, and answer questions about current things so 1. we can get to know each other better (for example, cousins that still haven't met yet and new uncles) and 2. so we have it for the future. To start, I'll post a question about once a month for everyone to answer. I hope everyone will participate but obviously this is optional. It would be cool to have all the kids give their own answers, because one thing is for sure with at least my kids - even when they're talking about the same thing, they give very different answers. I'd also love for anyone who is working on family history to post things that they've found on here so the rest of us can learn our distant family history as well. Summaries of what we know about our early history would be good, like the letters Mom sent out just before our first Nauvoo reunion. I found some of the papers she sent the other day, but having them online where they can be accessed would be good too.
So here's our first question:
Please describe the home in which you currently live.
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Aaron and Emily live in a three-room apartment on the third floor. Each building in the complex has twelve apartments. Walking inside, there's the kitchen and laundry area, divided by a partial wall from the living room. We've got our dining room table, desks, a keyboard, a futon, and the entertainment center. Walk down a very short hallway to our bedroom, which has our bed, dressers, bookshelves, and walk-in closet. And there's an attic storage area off of the bathroom.
Aaron and Mindy and Aria live in a small ground floor apartment. Small galley kitchen just inside the door, with an opening to look into the living area and dining area. We have a wall of four tall bookshelves FULL of boardgames and movies. Small patio with a porch swing, BBQ, all our recyclables and a half-finished filing cabinet turned smoker. Down the hall is a small storage room (we miss our old apartment and it's amazing storage and large kitchen), Aria's bedroom (with futon), our bedroom with a walk-in closet that links to the bathroom. All the walls have furniture along them, because we have way too much stuff for such a small space. And there's lots of art and pictures on the walls too, of course.
Nathan, Amanda, Joshua, Henry and Katherine McKenzie live in a basement apartment. There are two large rooms, a small bathroom with a shower and one bedroom. Joshua and Henry (and the LEGOs) share the bedroom, and JP and HA sleep on a bunkbed. The front door opens into the dining area and immediately to the left is the living room. The playroom and kitchen also share this large room. Passing through a glass door you enter Nathan and Amanda's "bedroom". The boys' room is at the base of the stairs that go up to grandma and grandpa Rozen's home. Their room is also at the other end of Nathan and Amanda's room.
With nearly 2000 square feet our house seems rather large. Funny, it didn't used to feel so big. We have 4 bedrooms. One of which is a library with very few books on the shelves. One is the green room with Dad's movie stuff and other files and storage and one is a guest room with a single bed and dresser. We only need one room to sleep in. Then there's the living room, office, kitchen and family room. And the utility room where I sew and do my laundry. This house used to be so full of people and things. It's getting more empty all the time.
Tawnia lives in the basement of a brick house. If you can find the front door (hidden between the garage and the house, down the stairs and through an outer door) you enter into the living room with my ugly (borrowed) 1960 couches. The kitchen is to your left behind a long high counter which is on top of white cinder block. This counter is used for putting together puzzles or spreading out the latest cooking project. The kitchen has minimal cupboard space but does include a washing machine. Through a door in the kitchen you will find the laundry with a washer and dryer. This is also where the spare tires are kept since you need winter tires and regular tires when you live here. The circuit board is in the laundry room and usually remains open.It is always an adventure when the neighbor tries to do her laundry on the same night and the circuit gets overloaded. A doorway in the living room leads to the two bedrooms and bathroom. The smaller bedroom contains the bed and a bookshelf. The bigger bedroom houses a desk and a lot of boxes and storage bins. The bathroom also has minimal storage space and no ventilation so showers are usually taken with the door open. It's okay because there are no other people living in the house. During the winter months the apartment is now heated by space heaters. There used to be radiators but at some point the pipes running through the kitchen floor became corroded, so the radiator is no longer an option. In addition, the winter brings the ever present sound of running water which is necessary to keep the kitchen sink pipes from freezing. Though there are all these quirks, I can't complain too much because it is my home that I don't have to share with anyone else and it is filled with all the things that make me happy.
Tawnia, we know what it's like to have frozen pipes.
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