January 1st 1914. Thursday,

I began the New Year very badly by allowing the sun to get up or nearly so before me, but I was utterly unaware of it until too late, of course we didn;t pretend to do any thing but chores so it didn't matter much. We got everything dome up and I gpt dressed readu for dinner at Aunty Maude's which was supposed to be at half past one sharp, but as Tiddums went to sleep and they didn't like to wake him, Dad, Enah, Roy & Frank didn't get down till nearly about half past two, but I went down on time and told Aunty Maude how things stood.