Crafting Coziness, One Stitch at a Time

It’s so interesting looking back at my notes from all of this because I feel like an entirely different person. Or this seems more like a weird dream than a time period in my life. I have barely scratched the surface and even though I saved all of my facebook messages (the main way I was able to speak to my father), or texts with my half-sister, I haven’t read them since they happened. Until now. February 11, 2023 - After my first chats with my step-father I began creating hi

Picking up where I left off so lets just dive in… February 5, 2023 - I was still looking at what he was posting on facebook at the time and trying to determine what type of law enforcement he was talking about. Was he a police officer? A warden in a jail? He talked about being in basic training, which got me wondering if he was in the military at some point. He mentioned “snitching” (his words) on two officers having a relationship and how he suspected that “being a known sni

A photo I took from around this time in 2023 I have a lot of notes and screenshots from February because this is when things really start to pick up. February 1, 2023 - I responded to a distant cousin (the one whose grandfather is my grandfather’s brother) and we were chatting on Ancestry while I checked the status of my DNA kit for the 100th time. We talked about how we might match since she had already taken a DNA test. I learned that I should get my test by February 6th a