Crafting Coziness, One Stitch at a Time

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

At the end of January 2023 I was finding out too much and not enough so I contacted a couple of private investigators. While I waited, I messaged a couple of the people on Ancestry that listed my maternal grandfather in their trees. My main concern with hiring a private investigator was the can of worms I might be opening up. I worried that they might uncover the tax fraud my mother committed all the years she claimed me as a dependent on her taxes while I was living with my

What a whirlwind this past week has been! Last week I saw several litters of kittens on facebook shared from the Humane Society in the next county over. One was a litter of manx kittens that were adorable, and then there was this litter of four girls and a runty tuxedo boy. The girls were two orange and white that reminded me so much of our kitty that we lost in December, and the other two were grey/maybe dilute torties. I sent the Humane Society a message because the kittens