Love it when things come together

Some days the world turns into chaos, the clouds blacken and we wish for it to be a long weekend where we could just stay in bed until Monday goes away. Thank you Lord for having another side to life. It all started when I got an email from a cousin. She had a relative who was looking to find out some genealogy background to our family. This was odd, but what the hay... I got in touch about three weeks ago and we emailed. Nothing much happened, but I was getting the feeling that this was more than a strange coincidence- I felt it was a nudge to do some work on family history. I had been thinking about it prior to this and bought a whole scrapbooking idea and all the craft tools, paper etc to finally do my family history book I promised in 2004 when we had our miraculous Yaworski family reunion. It felt very similar to that time, when all sorts of little miracles came out of no where. Well, back to the story...

I resolved to get my user names, passwords and long forgotten accounts out from under the layers of dust and get them useable again. This took two days (8 hours each) and a couple of phone calls to the various genealogy sites. Finally, that was done. I thought I'd check out what was in the one site- I was amazed, there were names back to 1617 or something and then all belonged to my daughter! (My husband's side). So I spent the next two days compiling a starter kit for my daughter to get excited about rooting around for her long departed family and get to know her cousins, aunts and uncles better.

I no more than came back from the post office from mailing my daughter her georgous looking gift with priceless records inside, than I got a phone call from a fellow from an association I had been trying to make headway with for the last year and a half. He relays the message I left and tells me he has a proposition to make. He has arranged a community fair in the community next to me and asks me if I would be interested in a table so I could promote my idea/cause of City Roots Community Gardens for Woodbine (which is now 2 years of work with no light at the end of the tunnel). Then he tells me it is free, courtesy of his association.

And they say there is no point in having hope. or faith. I now have interested parties in the community garden and for PGE-Peace Gardens (on the Meetup Community). WAHOO! Love it when things come together!