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It boggles the mind!

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Get a load of this ancestor’s family.  My 4th Great Grand Uncle, John Scalf, and his wife, Edeah Carlisle Scalf, had SIXTEEN children.  Their children‘s number of children below:

Nancy = 5 children

Polly = 11 children

John = 14 children

Brittan = 19 children (Count ‘em, NINETEEN!!)

Dicey = 17 children

Lydia =5 children

Berry =8 children

Lee = 7 children

Ira = 7 children

Jesse = 8 children

Peter = 4 children

Betsy = 1 child

Robert = 6 children

Lela = 4 children

Two of John and Edea Scalf’s children died in infancy and had no children.  As far as I can tell.

Edea had their first child in 1788 at the age of 18, their last child in 1823 at the age of 53.

I.

Cannot.

Imagine.

I am 53 NOW!

I’d kill.

No wonder all the women look old for their age in old pictures.  :(   Their grandchildren, assuming all lived, which is probably not likely, would have numbered 116 grandchildren!

I’m thinking of cooking Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter dinner for 132 people at one sitting.  DAYS AND DAYS of cooking.

I am so glad I have an electric stove, crockpot, electricity, gas!  I can’t imagine doing all that cooking without electricity, etc…..I’d give up before I started.

I have some aunts and uncles who married more than once, would have 10 children each marriage, but none of them, that I have seen records on, had that many grandchildren.  WOW.

WOW!

Invents cooking

Invents cooking

Shoot, I can’t even imagine cooking for 14 kids!  Goodness.

I am in AWE!

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A tour bus driver drives with a bus full of Sun City Christmas 
Shopper Seniors down a highway, when a little old lady taps him on 
his shoulder. She offers him a handful of almonds, which he 
gratefully munches up. 

After approx 15 minutes, she taps him on his shoulder again and 
hands him another handful of almonds. She repeats this gesture 
about eight times. At the ninth time he asks the little old lady 
why they do not eat the almonds themselves. 

She replies that it is not possible because of their old teeth; 
they are not able to chew them. 

"Why do you buy them then?" he asks puzzled. 
The old lady Answers, "we just love the chocolate around them."

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About | chic envelopements.

I’m a busy mom, grandma and teacher who loves to create. I think refashioning is ridiculously fun and I’ve just recently jumped on the refashion wagon. I’ve been so inspired by all the creative and talented people who have so graciously posted their work. Through this blog, I’m hoping to connect with more talented people and possibly inspire a few myself.

Here are seven things you might not know about me:

1. I should never be allowed to have BBQ potato chips in the house! These crunchy little morsels of tasty goodness are like crack to me. As a matter of fact I’m dipping some in cottage cheese right now. Weird, huh?

2. I absolutely LOVE vintage campers. Here’s a picture of my 1966 Barth travel trailer parked in one of my favorite places in the world. But I’ll blog more about this in a future post.

3.  I’m a Project Runway Fan. Need I say more?

4. The Polar Bear Club has my name on it’s roster. One winter, while on a winter camp out in Northern Minnesota, I was crazy enough to first bake in a sauna, then run straight to a hole cut in a frozen lake and jump in! I. Thought. I. Was. Gonna. Die!

5. In my early twenties, I lived in an oil field camp. Yep, I was Oil Field Trash. My husband was a driller for Anderson Meyer in Wyoming and Utah so before we had kids, I traveled around with him. Fun times!

My hubby is the handsome one on the left! Oh Yah!!! :)

6. I literally cried tears of joy the Christmas I was eight when I opened my stuffed Snoopy because he was soooooooo cute. I still have him, I still get a little emotional when I hug him, and I want to be buried with him.

7. I’m a Kindergarten teacher. I’ve been a teacher for 22 years and have enjoyed (almost) every minute of it. When I grow up, I want to work in publishing. Magazines have always been my guilty pleasure and I’ve secretly wanted to set up photo shoots or be a graphic designer for one, but since I’ve lived in remote areas my whole adult life, I never thought it would be possible. Hmmmm….maybe dreams do come true…….