1965 MV's Schedule & Info -Mar.8

Harold and Jean prepare for their annual trip to the Toy Show in NYC.  Must have been a new babysitter – possibly Ruth Shoemaker.  Interesting details about the everyday household schedule and daily life in New Vienna.  Transcription follows.

3/8/65

MV's schedule at 1 year + 1 week

7:15 Breakfast

• MV's cereal – Pablum or Heinz (about a full bowl mixed with warm milk.
• Glass Milk (plastic glass or cup)

7:45  Get dressed – clothes in pull out drawer above diapers

9:30 – Back to bed for approx. hour nap

12?   Lunch –

• Jr. Food - Warm in bottle warmer or sink tho doesn't like some
• or Soup - crazy about saltine crackers
• Milk

1:30 or 2:00 - Back to bed

5:30 – 6:00 Supper

• Jr. fruit in cupboard or mashed banana
• Food from table
• Milk

7:30 – 8:00 - Bed

• Pajamas & sleeping bag & double diaper

Our address ––

• Sheraton - Atlantic Hotel, 34th & Broadway, N.Y. City
• or call Phyllis at shop (7-5181)

Notes ––

• MV's toys are in bottom drawer of glass china closet in corner of dining room
  
• Zwieback in pantry cupboard
  
• Call Dr. Fullerton if needed for anything
  
• Girls will get milk & anything else you may need at grocery.
  
• Bedtime for John – 8:00
• Serena – 8:30
• Roberta – 9:30-10 or sooner
• Catherine – 10
  
• Girls know how to run dishwasher if you need help - also washer & dryer.
  
• Call Charles Thompson if you have difficulty with furnace, fuses, etc.
  
• Call Dayes for refrigerator, dryer, washer repair
  
• Russell Ramsden of Hillsboro - furnace
  
• Pepto-Bismol for upset stomach
• Aspirin for whatever needed
  

Remember – You are boss & what you say goes! !  

[Written in someone younger's handwriting]  that's what she thinks!