My Mom has been typing out the journals she kept as a young mother over 40 years ago. I won't publish those — you had to have been there or married into the family to appreciate the family history. This excerpt is apparently my first letter writen to my Aunt Mary.

Dear aunt Mary we hope you have a very nice time and the rest of you this winter. I am in Grade 2 and I am reading very, very good and the book I am reading is called We Are Neighbours. We have Gym every Tuesday and Thursday and We have library every Friday and We larn Arithmetic and I made your house at the bottom of the letter. From Jimmie Service