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!

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

January 31 - February 3, 1978 Slumber Party

Tuesday, January 31, 1978

 

The last day of the long cold hard month. I done my regular work. Made a cake, custard and washed. Bill and I went to town then down to get Fern’s. She came up for the day. We looked at the Florida snaps and the rest of the things in Esther’s box. She went home at about 9 PM.

 

 

 

Wednesday, February 1, 1978

 

A nice sunny day, quite cool in early a.m. It warmed up. I done my work. Got ready, went to Shaw’s with Betty. We done a lot of shopping.

 

 

 

Thursday, February 2, 1978

 

A quite good cumulus day, not all sunny. I have been busy all day. I washed and ironed, done some housework. Odds and ends, busy all day. Bill went fishing.

 

 

 

Friday, February 3, 1978 CARMEN’S SLUMBER PARTY, $99.70 $227.40

 

A beautiful day. I got my work done early and went down to Betty’s. She went to the New Hope Farm bake sale at Norway. They did very well. I done up the work at Betty’s. Carmen is having a slumber party. Kim is up here, Zak is at Fern’s. Betty and Walt is up to Dawn’s for supper and a long evening. Bill went fishing. A beautiful day, on the cold side. Late in PM Susan took Delores and I to town.

 



Doreen McHatton, Becking Meinking, Maureen Momm, Linda Kingsbury and Lisa Osgood


 

 

 

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