May
22, 1945
Dear
Mother,
Jane is such a different baby from
Alvin and Betty. They were both so roly
poly, but she is long, and altho she is fat, doesn’t appear to be so. She still has blue eyes, and every one says
she looks like me. I have never had a
baby that has been so hard to feed tho.
She doesn’t like to eat food out of a spoon, but I still persist. The things Betty liked exceptionally well,
she just won’t have. She is a good baby
tho, and much smaller than either of the other two. It may be that I try to get her to eat too
much. She sits up alone now, and wants
to grab everything in sight.
We were quite surprised to hear of
Mrs. Reese, altho had we watched the paper close we would have heard it
earlier. We saw the notice in last Sat.
paper. When I got an attack of
appendicitis Sat. Harold was quite worried about me. But I am ok again now. Harold has been out planting tomatoes,
cabbages, and peppers tonight. It is
wonderful the ground we have for a garden.
Mr. Zelenka has let us plant about half an acre, and we have peas,
beans, and beets to can. Cucumbers, corn, squash, and all we can put in. There is water every other days for 2 days to
take care of it so we should have a good garden. It looks as tho Harold may be able to stay in
the city for a while to help take care of it too.
Do you remember that rug that Mrs.
Barnhart was teaching me how to make out of wool pieces in Topaz while you were
there last spring? Well, I’ve been at it
again, but I’m running out of material for it.
She said if you use brown, don’t use blues or greys, so I’m trying to
take her advice. I was wondering if you
had any old coats in the basement that you could send me. Either in green, brown, tan, red, orange, or
what have you. If you do find something
you can send, don’t attempt to wash it, just send it as is, and I’ll wash it
before I use it. I do need a rug, and it
seems the best way to get one while we are so unsettled is to make one. It doesn’t take long once you sit down to
work on it. But it does use a lot of
material. There is no particular hurry
for them.
I’ve already written to Pearl and
Royce, and it is getting late, so I must stop.
Please let us know Mother if you are getting my money. We will send you some the 15th of
each month, and any money that we send to you has been tythed. We feel that the Lord has blessed us, and we
want to help you all we can. Starting
with the middle of this month Harold is getting his raise to 3200 a year. We want to save all of it we can, but we
couldn’t be happy if we knew you weren’t getting enough to get along. Take care of yourself Mother, and may the
Lord bless you.
With Love,
Laura
Love to read how were you as a baby!
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