April 14, 1944

Dearest Hal,

Today I received your latest money order and I think it is wonderful that you can save so much. I bought another bond and this one makes ten, isn’t that wonderful? I find it makes a big difference since I’m not teaching. The cost of living has more than doubled and so it is just not possible for me to save as much. Sam has four $25 bonds and is about half way on the fifth one. He is so cute when he talks about cashing in his bonds so he and Daddy can build a house for Mother. It is going to be such a wonderful house, according to Sam we’re going to have a game room where he and Daddy can play the best games. Sam says his Daddy knows the best games to play of any body. I can hardly bear to think of how wonderful it will be for both of us to have you safely home again.

Today things finally worked and we got the potato patch plowed and worked up. Sambo helped and I planted the potatoes and one row of onions. Daddy helped a little but his leg hurt him so badly he couldn’t bear to stand on it so he soon had to give up and go and lie down. Now we are at Dr. Thomas’ office. A great many of your letters are written as we wait for doctors Sat. night.

This seems to be as far as I have gotten so far. Today Sam and I went to take some shots from Dr. Fisher. It rained hard all night and was still raining this morning. It finally cleared about moon, but it will be some time before we make any more gardens. Sam is going to have a garden all his own this year. He made a list of what he wanted to buy and he went to town and bought his garden seed. Now he is having fits to plant his garden but he’ll have to wait awhile for it to dry off. I am very anxious to get the garden plowed so I can plant my glad bulbs. I truly did have some gorgeous blooms last year. I hope you are going to be here in time to see them this time. More than anything in the world I want you home and next to that I want to get settled somewhere so I can truly have my own flowers and things. I guess I couldn’t work harder over any than I do over these but I hesitate to spend any more on these, except things we can move to our own home later on.

The chickens are growing real fast and I’ve only lost three of them. One of those was my fault because I dropped the lid of the stove on him and killed him. I almost cried over that but mostly because I was mad at being so clumsy.

We had a very long day in town being held up by so many, many things. You never can find what you want with out looking and looking. Even when you find what you want you can’t get anyone to wait on you so shopping is pretty tiresome and not very satisfactory. I guess we shouldn’t complain, everyone is short of help these days and we are lucky to get along as well as we do.

I wish you would take pity on me and write me a letter sometimes. I need to get a letter from you.

all my love,

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