Friday, January 1, 1926
Cloudy
Of course this is the day for resolutions so will try to make this diary less a chronicle of work done and more of the development of the children and also will try to keep it up to date and not let it slide a week or then fill in forgetting some of the most interesting things. But it really is a task, this keeping a diary. I have so many tasks that have to be done that if I am not in the mood for writing, or get too tired, it is so easy to let this slide as no one is going to make me keep it. However Gilbert gave me this little book for my birthday and I want to keep it to read over in my old age and recall these days when my family is young and so interesting and pesky! Then who knows, historians or biographers may seek this data relative to the boyhood of a great Smith.
(This entry is quite intriguing. What is going to be in this year's diary? We've had a few minor discussions about whether or not Grandma intended for others to read her diaries. In response to this entry, Aunt Marjorie wrote "So, Mother did intend for us to read her diairies!" No one knew she kept the diaries until they had to clean out her personnel belongings after she moved to a nursing home, shortly before she died. Those who read the diaries at that time wished she had let them read the diairies while she was still alive because there are entries that prompt some questions that we will probably never find the answers for.
And she certainly believed that her sons (and daughters) could go on to do great things!
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I've always felt that Mother thought that at least one of her children would become famous. I think she also kept all the letters she got from her children with that thought in mind but I don't know what happened to all her papers & letters. All her sons got advanced degrees in their chosen fields and I know she was extremely proud of all her children, even tho not a one of them became world renowned
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year, Carol. I'm so enjoying these diary posts.
ReplyDeleteSix years later, and I am starting your new year of posts. Looking forward to what happened in the first six months of each of these years that your grandmother kept her diaries. Funny how you all never found more. I am now starting my 16th year of journaling, wondering like your grandmother if anyone will ever read them in an historical context.
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