http://www.ambaronline.com/homemaker Homemakers aren't all about diapers and dishes Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:41:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have always been fascinated by the vampire myth. I still have a journal primarily about vampire myths written in 2003, BEFORE Twilight. It is not a fictional story, just entry after entry on the vampire myth and where it may have come from. I was alone in Hawaii with ... http://www.ambaronline.com/homemaker/2010/02/26/real-vampires/ This knight's armor wasn't exactly shining, but he is very interesting nevertheless. This is a rewrite. I think my writing was so terrible that I feel that I didn't give this prince enough respect. Enrique was the younger son of King Fernando III, a great-grandson of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Fernando ... http://www.ambaronline.com/homemaker/2010/02/18/knight-in-shining-armor-of-the-weekenrique-of-castile/ I think that will be my project the next few months. I will work on finding Leonie. Last year I was looking for the Keiths and did find the family of Elizabeth McLin. This year my focus will be on Leonie's family. I know a lot about Leonie, but I ... http://www.ambaronline.com/homemaker/2010/02/05/finding-leonie/ I searched the records of Oise for Leonie's birth record and could not find her in Oise. Either that is the wrong Louis Charlemagne or Louis moved to another area. Since I could not find any Patri's in Oise that is very possible. Louis was a merchant so he could ... http://www.ambaronline.com/homemaker/2010/02/04/dead-end-in-oise/ Before I told you the basic story of my ancestors who immigrated from France. I have a lot of information about them once they arrived to the USA but they remain a mystery back in France. Because many of the records in France have not been indexed like they are ... http://www.ambaronline.com/homemaker/2010/02/03/french-genealogy-part-deux/ My great great great grandmother, Leonie Louiza Dumanet, was born in France. Her family came to Tennessee in 1849 and had a tanning business along the banks of the Tennessee River. There were several French and Belgian families opening up tanning businesses, bakeries, etc in the small town of Lobelville, ... http://www.ambaronline.com/homemaker/2010/01/31/french-genealogy/ I was doing some research on Melusine, an actual mythological being from Anjou and found a weird book "The Dragon Legacy: The Secret of an Ancient Bloodline" by Nicholas De Vere. I was specifically reading about Melusine but as I read on the book got weirder and weirder. It started ... http://www.ambaronline.com/homemaker/2010/01/22/dragon-prince/ Think about that word. Doesn't that sound like a beautiful word? How I wish humans could go hide in a cave for a few months and just sleeeeeeeeeeep. There would be no cold, no snow to dig, no stupid illnesses, just sleep. I would turn off my phone and just ... http://www.ambaronline.com/homemaker/2010/01/21/hibernation/ I had insomnia one night and so I watched the entire first interview of Yoko and John on the Dick Cavett show. I have always heard about it but saw it for the first time. After watching that show I understand now why people so despised Yoko. I know that ... http://www.ambaronline.com/homemaker/2010/01/20/yoko-really-was-crazy/ I looked out of the window and saw this: Just when I thought the zombie threat was defeated, they came back again in a second form known as strep throat. The zombies go right to the throat and multiply and multiply and you can't swallow and you freak out thinking you ... http://www.ambaronline.com/homemaker/2010/01/20/part-2/