What memories do you hold near and dear to your heart?
-- Do you remember your first stuffed animal? Who gave it to you?
-- Do you remember losing your first tooth? Did the tooth fairy come?
-- Do you remember learning how to ride a bicycle with no training wheels?
-- What was your favorite food as a child?
-- Were you a good child?
-- Did you have to stand in the corner? Did your parents ever forget about you? Accidentally?
-- Do you remember your preschool? What about your elementary school?
-- Do you remember visiting Grandma and Grandpa's house?!
-- Do you remember the first time you really felt loved?
Just a flash of healthy memories to keep me going, is all. I miss being a kid... and an adult with no worries! Kids... no worries in the world, and the worse possible punishment being quiet time.
What I would do for some quiet time. I would misbehave every.minute.of.the.day!
**Comment below and tell me some of your favorite memories!
Much love from my busy desk to wherever you are.
- hmm... I had a stuffed, crocheted Odie doll that my great-aunt made for me.
ReplyDelete- I learned to ride a bike with Tory Reuber. we had a grass lot with a hill on one side and he and I rolled down it allllll day long, until we had both magically learned to ride.
- I seem to recall eating a lot of grilled cheese growing up. Maybe that would explain why i eat it so often now. It's a comfort food for me, in a time when I often need comfort...
- Of course I was a good child! The best! Just ask me; I'll tell you...
- My babysitter, Mrs. Dieken, made me stand in the corner once. I think I spit on another one of the boys while riding my bike by him. OK, maybe i wasn't the best child...
- elementary school? I remember getting spanked in first grade by Miss Bruning because I forgot to wipe off the white boards in the back of the room. I also remember her letting me teach the class how to use the new Commodore 64's, because she had no idea what a computer was. (I had had a commodore Vic 20 at home for at least a year already!) I remember the first day of thrid grade when it suddenly dawned on me that my neighbor, Mrs. Miller, was also my teacher. How embarrassing! I remember the huge lake-like puddles that would form outside Mr Genandt's room and how I was daydreaming and looking at one of those lakes when I heard about the space shuttle exploding. I remember in 5th grade insisting on sitting in the same seat with Kurt Schweitz and trying to convince the teacher we had to, because we were conjoined twins. Too bad he was Korean. That probably ruined the impression a bit...
- I remember going to Grandma and Grandpa Fordham's house and eating orange gumdrops the second I got there.
so, there you have it. Thanks for the memories, Becky!
I remember these two puppet dogs that I have and LOVED. My mom made me give one to Toys For Tots when I was in a beauty pageant.
ReplyDeleteI vaguely remember taking off my training wheels because my sister wanted to too but she wasn't ready.
We ate a lot of Southern food. I still cook that way! Fried chicken, pork chops, okra, biscuits, cornbread, white creamed corn, pole beans, and sweet tea. My Grandmama took care of us a lot and cooked all these wonderful, unhealthy foods!
I was a very good child. Very smart, outgoing, and dramatic. I would get in trouble constantly because I wanted to read everywhere we went. I could polish off a Babysitter's Club novel in half an hour.
I got sent out into the hall once in 2nd grade for talking. I never got into trouble again.
I remember my preschools and daycares. My mom had to call one of them "Play Place" otherwise my sister wouldn't go. I got staph infection there. We went to the daycare at the local junior college and I gott stitches in my chin there. We mostly went to a church daycare where my brother and niece and nephews go now. I got stitches in my forehead there.
We spent a lot of time with all our grandparents. We lived next door to Grandmama for several years, then my parents built a house on my Maw Maw and Granddaddy's property, where they still live. I was also lucky enough to know my great-great grandmother until I was about 5 and my great grandmother (Granny) until college. All my grands were beloved!
Thanks for the memories! That was fun!
Elementary school was awesome for me. Teachers loved me, and I definitely remember getting special treatment. My 1st grade teacher let me skip naptimes to learn cursive writing. I had lots of friends and loved drama- imagine that!
Because my parents both worked full time
Uhm, well, I pushed my brother down the stairs once. So I probably wouldn't be labeled as a good kid. But just so it is documented, I did feel incredibly sorry afterward. I even chased him down the stairs trying to stop the carnage. Either that, or I was trying to make him stop so I wouldn't get in trouble. He does still speak to me.
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