November 24, 2013 at 5:20 a.m.

This is why I don't drink caffeine in the afternoon - I stay up all night if I do.  So here it is 5:20 a.m. and I feel tired, but every time I lay down, I can't get to sleep.  So at 4:30 ish I got up and put chili fixin's in the crock pot.  Now, that is bizarre.  HA!

The results from the DNA testing are in!  There is a LOT of information and I still need to figure out exactly what everything means, but 84% of me is European, mostly of Spanish and Portuguese descent.  This is from my mother's side.  Because we women lack the Y chromosome, the father's side is not as evident.  I'm not sure exactly what this means.  I think one of my brothers needs to have this done so we can be more accurate and possibly find some long lost relatives.  Through the service I used there are approximately 400 possible relatives of ours out there from Spain and Puerto Rico and possibly Mexico in addition to locales in the States.  I am looking forward to contacting some of these people to see if we have family in common and hopefully filling in some holes the in the Puerto Rican/Spanish history.  I sure wish we would have talked to people before they were gone.   Isn't hindsight grand?

Anyhoo, more information about heritage to come.

Leaving for Seattle on Thanksgiving Day and coming back the following Tuesday.  So looking forward to seeing my son, daughter-in-law and grandson and seeing Seattle again.  It's a great city, although it's just so big and busy.