Merry Christmas from (late) Bud.

Hope Santa brought you exactly what you wanted! Merry Christmas! Don’t shoot your eye out.

Everybody's gone, all the dishes are done, and I'm going through a pile of old pictures. Among them are some sort of autograph book? They look like words of advice to my grandparents when they first got married, but people continued to write in it.

Tears of joy are just streaming down my face! The first one is my grandfather. He was very quiet, but always had a funny little line or two here and there. He did not disappoint with his last line.

This next one had to have been written by my mom when she was about 10 or 11. She was always so kind-hearted, and always had the right thing to say. She must have changed a lot between the time she wrote that and what she was like when I knew her.

Those are so touching, rob.

I just thought they were hilarious! But yes a piece of my family history. 1940s.

Those little ditties are usually found in an 'Autograph Book', similar to messges in a high school yearbook. I have one that belonged to my DM.

rob -- That's an interesting bit from your grandfather. Did he have to spoil it with the 'conditions'.

They stayed married till death did they part. He was a prankster through and through. Yes, it was her autograph book.