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!

Monday, March 23, 2015

December 25 - 31, 1948 A Good Old Dinner



Saturday, December 25, 1948

Had a nice Christmas. Frank Richardson here. Carkie and Brud called, good old dinner. Billie home for the day.



Sunday, December 26, 1948

Nice day. Cold.



Monday, December 27, 1948

We did a very big wash. Awful cold. Bill back to work.



Tuesday, December 28, 1948

I got the clothes in. I did the ironing at night. Still cold.



Wednesday, December 29, 1948

Snowed in rained. Didn’t do much. Bill didn’t work all p.m.



Thursday, December 30, 1948

Very rainy day. Bill didn’t work. His birthday 40 years. He and Kennie put on the water tank today.



Friday, December 31, 1948

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