Things I learned in Indiana

Funeral thoughts are a separate matter, but here are some thoughts from the remainder of our visit. 

Grandma Snyder told me that when dad was 5 weeks old she took him out for the first time to visit her Grandma Miller (her dad's mom). She called dad "Snookems" all throughout the visit. J needs a nickname. I like it. We're going try and make a go of it.

Grandma's great grandma, her mom's grandma, Grandma Dudley, made 7 trips back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean to Wales, visiting family and friends, while directing the clearing of their land here in Indiana. She said that in the family, if anyone was ever "doing something," you were said to be being just like Grandma Dudley. She was a great cook and often had large family dinners. So large that they had to make oyster soup in a giant boiler pot (used to wash clothes).

Grandma Sharbaugh says that Jocelyn looks like "one of her babies." Specifically, one of her boys. When my babies are little, it is so fun that the Sharbaughs stay up so late. It was no problem at all for Teri to hold J for a little bit and while I took a late night nap upstairs. 

Nean and Pappy were high school sweethearts. As far as Dana knows, the only person either one of them had ever dated. They  have been married for over 60 years. Not bad.

I also learned that a car seat makes a really great bed for a semi-fussy baby.