Catching up on email, cleaning house, and GRIP still feels exhilarating.

I recently posted on Facebook and here about the great week instructing in my course for GRIP. Of course, my 31 students were the best group in all courses! I didnt do all the presentations myself. Cyndi Ingle, Debbie Mieszala, and Cari Taplin did fantastic ones. Lois Mackin was our course’s tech host.

A week-long genealogy educational institute is work, joyful, camaraderie, laughs, sharing, and not to be missed. It’s also a mounting disaster for your living space. Doesn’t matter if you are the instructor as I was this past week for the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh, a student, a tech host, the tech goddess, or the directors. I probably shouldn’t speak for others, but the dishes piled up in the sink, the dishwasher wanted to be unloaded, the floor had crumbs, laundry pile grew, and the bathroom said it’s been a few days since you cleaned me. I did the sweeping on Friday, went to a ball game yesterday, and today was cleaning day. Ahhhh.

This morning I came up with the word I needed to describe this past week with the students in my course. That word is exhilarating. I’ve done this for 11 years with GRIP and can’t wait to do it again next June. My course “Digging Deeper” will be virtual again.

I have some mighty patient research clients and need to get back to them, answer a ton of emails, and spend some time with family members. Blogging will need to do some catching up, too.

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