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, May 13, 2023

December 25 - 26, 1985 Christmas

 

Wednesday, December 25, 1985 Christmas day, Rain

 

Had a very nice Christmas. It was a miserable day weatherwise. Rained hard all day. We went down to Horton’s about 7 AM. They all got a lot of nice Christmas gifts. Kim and Carmen got a lot of household items. Zack got a new gone .22 rifle. Dorothea, David, Milan, Betty, Bill, Billie and me and Eddie, Kim’s future husband and Fern were the extras. Billie and I came home, got our tree out and all cleaned up. Also Betty and Walt did and Zack. We all worked till 12 o’clock tonight. Billie and Susan and Chris called tonight. Had the usual good old roast pork and turkey dinner.

 

 

 














Thursday, December 26, 1985

 

A nice sunny clear day all day, but it has been very cold. Well ,got up this morning and the house was all cleaned. I did a big wash. Done up the regular work. Bill been reading. He went down to Milan’s for a little while. I went over to Carmen and Kim’s with Betty and Zack. Betty went over and helped Kim clean her house. It looks so nice. Kim was very pleased. Carmen got her house cleaned up today from Christmas. Dorothea called tonight on her way home. She went down to Jeff’s.

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