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, April 11, 2016

December 5 - 9, 1958





Friday, December 5, 1958

A cloudy gray dismal day. Cleaned up the house. Bill home all day. We went to town in p.m. Last paycheck. Betty to movies in evening.



Saturday, December 6, 1958

Jeffrey Dennis Adair is five months old today. A nice day except cold and windy. I worked all day in kitchen. Linwood Hill came and checked the furnace. Billie didn’t work in p.m. Bill don’t feel well.



Sunday, December 7, 1958

Cold again. Did up the work. Fern and Lloyd called in late p.m. Also Kennard. Beverly Brown Harmon called to see me about caring for her baby for two weeks.



Monday, December 8, 1958 Pictures of Jeffrey Dennis Adair Came



Another bitter cold day. Mike Harmon came here today to stay days for two weeks. I washed. Betty up to Dawn’s for a party in evening.



Tuesday, December 9, 1958

Cold Cold Cold.
Awful weather we are having. I done up work. Got clothes in and ironed. Didn’t do much extra with two babies.
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