Category Archives: My Mother’s Journal

From My Mother’s Journal, 1986-1988 in Snippets

By Erin | Published: January 19, 2010

* Just notes so I won’t forget 7-86…Daddy was laid off 9-86…Mommy went to work for 3 mos. while Daddy stayed with you 12-86…We sold our house, bought a 2/BR mobile home and moved to Marshall, about 12 mi out of Ripley, WV, Jackson County. Just takes about 20 min. to get to Granny’s in [...]

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From My Mother’s Journal, or Why Kitchens Shouldn’t Have Carpet

By Erin | Published: December 1, 2009

April 10, 1984 You somehow opened a bottle of vinegar and poured half of it out on kitchen carpet. Boy, it almost knocked me out. How you opened it, I don’t know.

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From My Mother’s Journal, May 8, 1984

By Erin | Published: November 11, 2009

(just over one year) Lora told us she and David were planning on moving back to live with their mother in Colorado. I know you’ll miss having a brother and sister here. I imagine it will be lonely for you, being the only child, but we’ll try to love you enough.

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From My Mother’s Journal, April 26, 1984

By Erin | Published: October 28, 2009

(almost one year) Haven’t written much for a few days. You are getting sweeter every day. Your personality is beginning to take shape. Just as the American Baby Magazine said, you are becoming more and more attached to your Dad. When he comes home at night, you say, “Da, da, da, da,” with your arms [...]

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From My Mother’s Journal, July 7, 1984

By Erin | Published: September 30, 2009

Twenty years to the day before my wedding, my mother wrote one line in her journal: You still do not like the car.

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