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: I’m so happy with Alpine.

Outsiders think this is a place where crazy people are, but (Alpine residents) are all intelligent.  It isn’t a dumb place. I remember when I first came in, some people had problems with Alpine.

This is my home now.

Oh dear, I have to unwrap my hand from the phone.

Audrey: The newscaster guy, Tom Brokaw.

Audrey: I love you, dear.

I feel fine.  I sit here and look out (the window).  Always something going on.

When Amber comes over, she fixes the bookcase.  Amber hasn’t come over lately.   O dear, I’m getting sleepy.

Yes, I love you too, Heather.