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!

Sunday, December 25, 2016

December 25, 1961 Christmas



Monday, December 25, 1961

Dorothea, Dennis and Jeff Adair - Christmas in England

Cindy and Linda Smith


Cleared off and a nice day. Bill got home around 8:30. I got up at 4 o’clock. Made rolls, cake and pie. Cooked roast pork, chicken and finished the turkey. Got down to Ferns about 11. Had a nice dinner, roast pork, Turkey, chicken, squash, onions, peas, salad, rolls, nut bread. Cranberry sauce, Apple pie, blueberry pie, custard, suet pudding, ice cream cake and cookies, coffee. Milan, Betty and Norma left to go back home about 1:30. Called after they got home about 8:30.



Big crowd for dinner!




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