This is my mother. She left me when I was just 14 years old. I saw her a few times from teenage through the typical college years (although I didn’t have typical college years) and then she passed away before I married or had children. She was a wonderful woman that I know I would talk to her often if she were alive, but I really never got the chance.

The most current entries are things I would tell her and only her ... because they aren’t meant to be heard, just vented (if she were alive). The majority of this blog are letters she wrote to me (and a few to my sisters) during the years that we were apart.

Wednesday, November 28, 1984

November 28, 1984

Dear Betsy,
Sorry I haven't answered your letter sooner.  It turned cold today after 60 degree weather.  My ankles are swollen and I have to keep my feet up.  Tomorrow I have to bake apple pudding cake for a sick person and have company coming from church.  The living room got a mess tonight.  Bob and Friend got the rest of the things from Bob's apartment so the place needs lots of work.  We have having trouble getting a ramp after it was promised.  The owner is living in California.
I hope your Christmas presnet get there.  I haven't mailed them yet.  Now, down to the subject at hand.  David!  It sounds to Bob and me that he wants you only when he does.  It reminds me of the way your dad was.  I got a broken heart Betsy.  You are a beautiful girl with a great personality.  There has to be the perfect someone for you out in the world.  Now, you think about it and make a decision.
Grandma and Grandpa are being awful to me.  All they do is complain about me.  I really feel badly and I don't even want to be with them for Christmas.  I hope I never treat you like Grandma does me.  She never comes here and I really cry a lot.  She thinks I was crazy to marry Bob, but it is my life.
I read a lot and study the scriptures.  I can't be out much now because the cold weather.  I am writing this in bed so excuse my scibbling.
Well, I will close for now.  Bob and I had a small roast for Thanksgiving.  It was good and nice.  Didn't your dad invite you?  What did you do on the special day?  I would have liked some turkey.

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