The blog posts below are taken from my grandmother's diaries. Althea Green Smith Crook was lovingly referred to as Nanny to her immediate family ~ thus her diaries are called Nanny's Diaries.

Nanny wrote in her diaries when she remembered to - mostly in the evening. There will be some years in which she didn't keep diaries and there will also be some days/weeks in her yearly diaries in which she skipped or forgot to write in them. For the most part, these are her words - written as she wrote them. There will be typos, forgotten punctuation, and other grammatical errors - but I am rewriting these as my Nanny originally wrote them.

As with all old handwriting, there are some entries that I can't quite make out - and these entries will be followed with a (?) to signify that this may or may not be correct or I can't figure out what she is trying to write.

Thank you Nanny for leaving us 50 years worth of memories! We miss you!

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

December 21 - 24, 1955 Christmas Eve





Wednesday, December 21, 1955

Very nice day but awful cold, 15 below here, 22-25 below downtown. Car didn’t start very good. I churned. Raymond called and Billie went to town with him. Betty home from school early, it being last day this term.


 


Thursday, December 22, 1955

I finished up the cooking. Wash some windows. Bill and Betty over to Norway this p.m. Bill didn’t have to work. Betty did her shopping. Very cold.



Friday, December 23, 1955

Nice day. Dorothea home early. She and I went to town in p.m. and done rest of our shopping. Cleaned up the house all through.



Saturday, December 24, 1955

Did up the housework. Made corn balls etc. Cloudy and snowed some. Bill and Dorothea went to Portland to do some shopping and took Ken and Delores down to meet the train to go to Brud and Verna’s for Christmas. Our tree looked very good with all the gifts.


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