Monthly Archives: September 2004

Audrey: Today must be Saturday!

This is a very interesting place to be. They bring in our food. I like to stay in my room. Sometimes, I just sit on the edge of my bed (and look out the window) and they just wheel over my table. I don’t have to wait at all here in my room. When I go to the dining room, I have to wait for my food.

Audrey: Doug was here. He is looking up the MacDonald ancestry. Dawn was here with George. I like him. I’m very happy for her. She looks very, very good. Amber took me riding. She is here a lot. She is full of life. (Steve) is so good to her. He is wonderful. I’m happy for her. I was over to her house. I had lunch on her table. She took me around and we went riding.

Audrey: They were very good looking, cute kids. They had dark hair, whereas Vaughn’s hair was light as a child. Michelle and Mark’s great grandfather (maternal side) was English. I think his name was Richardson, but I am not sure. I thought April was cute, and Stephanie was a nice looking girl. My mother had blue eyes so she wanted blue eyed babies. Grandpa and the Spencers had green eyes. My eyes are green and Ed and Edith’s eyes were not blue. (They were) either green or brown. I can’t seem to remember. Spencer was the first blue eyed baby born. My mother was so happy that my babies (five of the seven children) had blue eyes.

Audrey: Anna Cecilia had green or brown. I can not remember.

Audrey: Oh, I didn’t care if (the eyes) blue, green or brown, just as long as they were big and pretty eyes. Dad and I had pretty kids!

(I often say to myself), what was the matter with my head? Having kids as if it was nothing? Having so many kids? I think now I’m glad I had them. I don’t want to get rid of them. I’ve got them and I want to keep them! But what was wrong with my head to have so many kids and not think a thing about it?

I was happy as a bug (in a rug).  I would rock you always as I just loved to have a baby in my arms. I would rock (the baby) back and forth in my arms. No wonder that I had a small waist. I like infants the best. I could hold a baby forever in my arms. Three and four year olds are still pretty fun, but I loved (the stage) when you were just babies. You grew up so fast.

You (Heather) were a fat, pudgy baby when you were born. Then you were thin for the rest of your life.

Audrey: There was a laundry man that picked up the laundry from the porch. Then he would bring the laundry back all clean. Can you believe there was a time when Mrs. St. Onge washed the clothes for me? She was such a lovely person and to have her take our clothes to clean! Can you believe that?

Audrey: Well, Edith, she was always looking in the mirror and fixing herself up. She was always dressing up and going dancing. But I was just a plain old kid. I never stopped to think about it (fixing myself up). Edith didn’t care about study, but I liked it (studying).

Audrey: Yes, we all fell in love with Uncle Frank. He was so tall and had such beautiful thick hair.

Audrey:  No. Nothing was ever said. My mother or father never said anything about that. I think they liked Frank very much.

Audrey: Dad, he was so quiet that he passed (the in-law test). He always helped Grandpa. One time Dad almost got heat stroke helping Grandpa with the hay. We had a barn in the back yard and the barn needed to be filled with hay. Dad always helped (Grandpa).

Dad always had his job. He worked at the mill and then at the submarine place. My father liked Milton. He was quiet, he didn’t have much to say. Dad said that my mother was “as near to an angel as anyone could be” or “as near to an angel as anything on earth”. That’s something to say about a mother-in-law! Grandma was good to him. She smiled and was such a good woman.