I hope that all of you are doing well. Things are going pretty good here, but we are in the process of packing up all of our belongings to move to a new home. Nothing too exciting, a bit closer to Mom’s in Lawrence, but still in the KC area.

We have been so busy planning and preparing for this move, that genealogy and this website has become a very low priority. Mom keeps telling me that it’s OK to have a life besides working on this website, but I still feel bad about it! Surely by now you all realize how much of a perfectionist I am, and when I can’t juggle it all, I am the hardest critic of all! I know that you are all understanding, and if there is someone out there who isn’t, well, all I can say is, too bad (well, Mom and Michelle know what I would really say, but I do try to keep this site clean and unoffensive!!)!!

I am still checking my email several times a day if there is anything anyone wants to ask or share, please feel free. If it’s a question that requires much thought, I may forward it on to Bobby or Diane, hoping that they will have time to answer it for you!

I have the photo page for Rebecca Ann Corel McGlothlin half done, but there is a problem with the layout. I don’t know what happened, but I will try to get that up by the end of the month. May not be the finished page, but at least you will get to see the photos!

Well, our big move is the first weekend in June. I already have the cable guy scheduled for that Saturday between 11 & 2, so I will not go very long without having a connection to the internet!!

I am taking a vacation the week after we move, and Michelle and Abby will help me unpack and get everything settled. With Michelle’s help, I figure we might actually get it done in hours, not days! If it works out that way, I am already excited about how much space I will have to spread everything out and really get into documenting and creating this site! So, at the earliest, major updates will not be returning until probably about June 5.

A few blogs ago I indicated that we were having some struggles in the Hawk household. I would like to thank all of you who offered me so much support. It is all looking much better now and I am very excited about the future. I keep harping at Rick that this move is the start of a new lifestyle as we are ’simplifying’ our lives.

I hope that all of the mothers out there had a wonderful Mother’s Day. As just an Auntie, I had a super day spending time with the Mothers in my life and I’m looking forward to doing it again with the Fathers in June!

Once again I am so sorry about having to put things here on hold, but I do promise that it is temporary!

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I have been asked by many about the flooding that is occurring in Kansas.  I want to start with that I am not being affected by it personally, but I have been keeping an eye on the Kaw.

If any of you have seen a river rise from flooding, you may not be very impressed by my photos, but I must admit that seeing how high this River has gotten, was quite a shock!  Especially when you get to the dam, an eastern view from Interstate 435.  On May 2, two or three cranes were removed from the area.  A few years ago, this dam looked as though it was made from a bunch of gravel that had been dumped in the Kansas River to form a road across the River.  This spring they have had the cranes down on the river, I’m guessing to build a better dam.  

The creek in the photos is most often just a trickle.  Now it is completely flooded.  The photos from May 8 show the highest the water has gotten that I have photographed.  Unfortunately, the 8th was also the day I forgot my camera and I took the pictures with a cell phone, which is why they are a bit grainy.

The land of our ancestors, in Lawrence, has flooded, but not to the point of getting into houses or trapping anyone in their homes.  The fields are what have flooded.  I was pretty worried about the land in Lawrence, because the news has compared this to the Flood of 1993 more times than I can count!  That flood did cause quite a bit of damage, but I do not understand why they are comparing the two.  In 1993 we had rain nearly every day for over a month.  This experience has been from less than a week of rain, but the news did report that within 12 hours on Saturday, several places around the area had in excess of what the normal total is for the month of May (about 5 inches).

One other thing I’d like to let you all know is that Rick and I will be moving the first weekend in June!  I am quite excited about that!!  It does mean, however, that the site will continue to crawl along, at least until early - mid June.

Hope you are all having a SUPER week and no one is in fear of floating away!! 

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I’ve received comments from several cousins that I should not be so hard on myself during this time of moving slowly on the website.  I want to thank you all for your never-ending support!

I can only guess that my avoidance of this update has to do with the lack of information readily available on the McGlothlin family.  I have an email into a McGlothlin family researcher, and if I am lucky enough to get some additional information to add to the page, I will be sure to include that in a future blog.

One thing I found to be very interesting while researching this family is that John McLaughlin/McGlothlin is listed right about Walter Mattingly/Matney on the Sandy Basin Virgnia Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution website.

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