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!

Saturday, October 13, 2018

December 25 - 27, 1968 Christmas











The BIG kids table!



Wednesday, December 25, 1968 Christmas, COLD

Our second Christmas in the new house. A very cold day. It was 18 or 20 below in evening. Fern, Lloyd and Aunt Ava here when we opened our gifts, Dorothea and family and Betty and family all here. We all had a very nice Christmas, lots of gifts for everyone. Kids, all three, had a good time. Dinner Turkey, stuffing, onions, turnip, shell beans, fruit burridge, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, olives, celery, pickles, cranberry sauce. Rolls, dark bread, salad, custard pie, pecan pie, which cream cake, cookies, a chocolate cream roll. Coffee, milk. In evening very cold. Bob and family called, Dot called. Walt went back to Concord. Betty and kids stay down. Pueblo crew freed. Astronauts made a successful trip around the moon.




Thursday, December 26, 1968 Very cold 20 below this morning

A beautiful day, but very cold all day. We didn’t do much. Kids played with some of their new toys. Carmen all good and no asthma until late afternoon or early evening, she came down with an asthma attack. Didn’t do too much today. Billie didn’t feel very good tonight. Carmen came down with asthma.



Friday, December 27, 1968 Not so cold

Not so cold. Very clear and nice. In p.m. Betty and I went to Norway and around to take Dorothea’s sweater back to exchange it. Fern came up and stayed with the kids. Came home, got supper. Betty and I to town to grocery shop. Then Fern was here for supper. She, Billie, Betty and Kim to Westbrook to see Dorothea. They got most of the paneling on Dorothea’s living room. She had a lot of company. Carmen still has asthma trouble. Betty and I took her to doctors. He gave her some medicine for her asthma. Got to go back tomorrow morning for x-rays. Walt had two teeth out. Didn’t sleep too well last night. Astronauts landed back all safe today. Carmen quite sick with asthma.






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