Thursday, September 3, 1925

Thursday, September 3, 1925
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Painted the baby bed this AM and after noon cleaned woodwork, windows, and floor in kitchen, pantry, and bathroom. Things begin to look better although the cabinet was too sticky inside to put things back in yet. But the worst of the dirt is out and how much lighter the rooms are! Oh so tired!

(Work continued to get ready for the birth of the baby. Grandma was doing quite a bit of hard work in her last trimester. I recall in the spring she wrote so often about feeling 'bum', having no energy, etc. so this is quite a change from before. We have hypothesized that she felt so bad in winter, early spring because of their coke furnace in the basement and perhaps that was not ventilating properly and they were breathing those fumes (like carbon monoxide) all of the time. Or maybe she just didn’t’ feel well early on in her pregnancy?

By the way, two “blog” related items. First, I’ve notice additional web traffic, so more people are finding these diaries. I love comments from people who find these daily diary readings interesting and read them, so don’t be shy. Click on comments and you can either be anonymous or enter a name, or if you are on blogger, you can use your blogger name with your comments.

Second, my Mom, the youngest daughter, Eleanor, is now connected to the Internet, so we are going to teach her how to add comments with her own recollections of her mother (Ruth Campbell Smith) and brothers, sister, and father.)