Roller coaster week for Grandma! She seems exasperated with another early round of snow but then is rewarded with days of sunshine and a trip to Circleville with Rosie complete with a mini-shopping spree when it warms up. She mentions
1977 Diary of Rose Jones – Week 5
This week was especially fun for me to do as it was just my 50th birthday and her journal this week starts on my 3rd birthday. My mom gave my baby book to me some years ago and I was
1977 Diary of Rose Jones – Week 4
Poor Grandma Rose! The week started so nicely for her with a burst of pretty sunshine, Olive’s birthday, and a somewhat poetic reflection on tall, swaying grass before taking an unexpected, if not chilly, turn of events at the end
1977 Diary of Rose Jones – Week 3
Back with week 3 of Grandma Rose’s journal! Her phrase on January 17th is one I’ve never, ever heard before and I chuckled because I could hear it in her voice. Her punctuation, capitalization, and run-on sentences are just atrocious
The 1977 Weekly Diary of Rose Jones Stewart Hochmuth
A few months ago, my cousin Kim gifted me with the 1977 weekly journal my great-grandma Rose Jones Stewart Hochmuth kept. She was going to give me the one for the year I was born which was 1974 but it