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I know you will both try to be brave, and believe me I know all about how hard it is.
Now I am wondering about your mothers birthday. You know I have that bed spread all ready to take her when you tell me to I believe you said it was in February.
We all had a wonderful time at the Golden Wedding Celebration I took some wonderful pictures at least I think they are and will send them along to Sidney and he can put them with the others Grandma looked so pretty. I never saw her look any better.  Her dress was lovely a golden brown satin with a lighter shade of

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brown embroidered with brown and gold for trimming. And her basket was filled with yellow calendulas, with yellow streamers We got Grandpa dressed at last but as it was he received "Nobby Drake." before he got it on ^[I mean his shirt]. It was funny, about 12.30 we looked out the window and Nobby was streaking it up the sidewalk as if he were twenty five with a big box under his arm. Flowers for the occasion and neither Grandma or Gramp were dressed. Grandma had her hair done up in rags just like Topsy (Mrs Crane did it) and there they were feeding Nobby ice cream cake etc and he stayed so long talking old times that they just barely had time to get dressed. They had callers steady from 1.30 to 5.30 and then just had a bite of