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!

Thursday, July 30, 2015

December 25 - 27, 1955 Christmas Day



Sunday, December 25, 1955 Christmas Day

A nice day. We had a very good Christmas. My own family home first time in four years. Company in PM. Dinner we had turkey, roast pork, chicken, turnips, onion, carrots and spinach ring, shell beans, pickles, olives, celery, mashed potato, gravies, cranberry sauce, salad, rolls, coffee, tea, lemon sponge, squash, pecan, chocolate, butterscotch pies. Suet pudding, Christmas cookies, chocolate Angel cake, chiffon cake, ice cream.





Monday, December 26, 1955

Very cold. I washed. Bill fixed washing machine. Dorothea did up housework. Brud and family called, they brought Ken and Delores home from visiting with them.



Tuesday, December 27, 1955

Nice day. I ironed. Kids skating. Billie, Raymond hauled sawdust. John Linscott gave Betty a little jersey calf. Betty is going to raise and care for it.
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