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, August 25, 2025

May 7 - 9, 1994 Last Mother's Day


 







 

Saturday, May 7, 1994


 

A very nice sunny clear day, temperatures way up. Leaves on the trees came out today, also the grass grew a lot. David here and had coffee and Billie’s nurse came. Carmen came and did the work. Jason came, he and Billie done a lot of fencing. Billie was out all day and he has been much better than yesterday. Also Zak came and brought me a very pretty Mother’s Day flower. Also one for his mother.

 

 

 

Sunday, May 8, 1994 Mother’s Day

 

It has been a very very rainy day. So hard it rains. This has been Mother’s Day and what a lucky mother I am. I got so much and many nice things. Two very nice glider chairs for the back porch. Gifts of all sorts and candy, money. I’m so pleased with it all. Walt cooked a very good dinner cookout feed. Hot dogs, hamburgers peppers and onions, chips etc. delicious. Also I got a very pretty bouquet, very delicate, from Zak. All in all very nice day. Tom, Kim, Arnold, Carmen, Betty, Walt, David, Dorothea, Billie, Betty Smith. Great-grandchildren Cameron and Brogan were all here.

 

 


 

Monday, May 9, 1994

 

At last a nice sunny day. Carmen and the nurse came. I got Esther’s letter ready to go. I will enjoy my new chairs today. A nice mild day. I didn’t do much as usual. Betty got the supper, a good one it was.

 

 

 

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