Prologue

This blog is about my life, my average life. I am not writing it to be noticed, I just want to write my life as I see it and have a record for me and my family.

Sometimes this may seem random but I am a random kind of girl. I will tell tales of my history and the present in no particular order.

To start, let me introduce myself. I am just the average person who possibly lives next door to you. I have never done anything exciting or special. For most of my life I have just survived, like most Americans, doing what needs to be done day by day. I have had ancestors who were special, at least we think so now. They probably didn't think so at the time, they were just doing what needed to be done. My great, great grandfather David Russell did a lot in his life. He was an Indian fighter, buffalo hunter, served in the military, traveled all over the United States, married an Indian woman named Ijakalaka and settled where Ekalaka, Montana is now. They ranched there, just doing what needed to be done.

As I write this I am thinking that just being average and doing what needs to be done is not so bad. Maybe instead of people trying so hard to be famous, powerful, and rich they should be happy where they are. The Russells just worked their ranch, raised their family turned out to be pretty great people. No they are not famous, they were not powerful, and they definitely were not rich, but they were happy.

I have not seen as much of our great nation as my great, great grandfather did but I am happy in my little corner of the world. I own a business that I have dreamed about owning for years. I have kids and my husband. I also have two very sweet dogs and one silly cat. They all care that I come home from work every day. They all love me.

So, maybe I am just the average American. Who cares. I don't. Maybe no one cares if I write this down. So what. I am doing this for me. If someone else reads it and gets something out it like a laugh or a "thank God I am not her", it has served more of a purpose than it was intended to.

Stay tuned for chapter 1.