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The end of May, 1935 Excerpts

Wednesday May 29th, 1935 My graduation pictures will be ready Friday. Tonight I signed up for Bay Path. The secretarial course for two years. Our cousins from Holyoke came for the evening. I want to go to prom. This passage has all short concise sentences. I think it shows a lot of anxiety and other…

Sharing May

I bring the new passages to Babu as she is beginning her daily exercises. Yes! She as PT exercises she still does nearly every day! 98. Amazing. I love her. So I wait and type as she does all kinds of leg lifts and counts them out animatedly in Polish. (Yup, I’m feeling like quite…

The Last Two and Half Weeks of May

While reading the passages from the end of May my heart really got to beating over a big mistake I made. This is not Babu’s Junior year, this is her Senior year! I was starting to get the hints as I was reading about her class ring and pictures, but I’ve done the math and…

Two Thoughts on Caretaking

Take time for yourself. Certainly the biggest cliche of them all, but the most difficult one, for me. I trained myself recently in a small way that matters. Babu has “dinner” at 3:30-4:00. On days when my husband and I are both working we have someone “cover” for us and that person usually needs to…

First Two Weeks of May, 1935 Excerpts

Friday May 3rd, 1935 “Zack” must be friends with “J” again cause he stops and talks to her. She has his “proofs” with her and hers also. I told her they didn’t flatter her and she said she knew it. Went to Falcon’s. We’re going to Holyoke Tuesday. My middy is torn and I guess…

Caretaking Haiku

5-7-5 for you traditional types: Boney, Arthritic hugs. The strongest and longest I’ve ever gotten. Her face gets big and happy when I now know what her Polish words mean. Feel like a complete failure- ran out of oatmeal Not even aware. She learns we don’t have oatmeal today, waves quick…

Classy, Snappy, and No Dumbbell!

Babu read the new set of passages and remembered a girl in her journal named Jenny and corrected the spelling of her last name. She still has so much of her memory but wont believe it! She even sometimes calls herself a “dumbbell,” which is far from the truth. She remembered that Jenny lived not…

The First and Second Week of May

The passages that start May are exciting and seem to be a little magical. Maybe I’m just being too sentimental or it’s because as Spring is starting in 1935, it’s also begun here! All of the excitement of a school year coming to a close is buzz-buzzing in her passages. They have gotten their class…

Fourth Week of April, 1935 Excerpt

Tuesday, April 30, 1935 Had a very good lesson today. Joe Grdymir came from Worcester. He kept us drilling from 8 to 11. Now, Diary I’m seldom happy. I have an indescribable lump in my chest because I can’t be popular. You’ve heard this over and over again. Why can’t I be? Never mind. I…

Babu and Drobey sitting walking down the street…not even talking.

I’ve gently pushed, and gently pushd again – but I promise, blog, that I have pushed her for the last time! we read about Babu not going to the show and she said: “I guess I didn’t go with him…” And I even joshed her when we read about Teddy’s admonish of her causing Drobey…

The Fourth Week of April, 1935

Babu has caused Drobey – “Caveman” – not to be able to sleep. Teddy is his ambassador, bringing messages, and potato chip bags back and forth. Babu’s written reaction to this? “Bunk.” She writes a lot about piano lessons. Her teacher is getting lessons her self and now things are much more strict in class….

The Doors in This House 4/3/16

In this house I must keep fighting with the porch door, They close all throughout this house but don’t latch. The only way to win is to slam it hard And wiggle the handle wildly. He wakes from the other room, It’s past noon And is yelling at the sound. We aren’t sleeping well Too…