My Favorite Childhood Memory is.....
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foots, I also remember looking for "chalk-rocks" but I lived in NY so we calledit Potsy not Hopscotch.
Leah
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Leah, I never heard that, Did you ever look for round
rock to us like marbles and big round rocks to use in
potsy?(hopsoctch)
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I remember playing with my brother's marbles. He had them in a bag that tied with a string. I used to love to look at them..esp. the really pretty ones.
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I didn't have a brother (was blessed with 2 sisters) but played with marbles anyway.
Foots, as I recall most if not all of the rocks we used were irregular in shape. Now, I grew up in NYC so, if truth be told, it was probably rubble! Worked for Potsy though.
Leah
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How about red rover red rover.
and London bridges falling down
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Riding through the forest on our ponies
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Seeing the light bugs at night and trying to
catch them when I was 4, never did to well.
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Watching "Pollyanna" and crying my eyes out!
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Seeing Santa Claus on a train, I was 5 and was scared
at first. then Santa got me laughing.
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Playing with my Snoopy dolls!
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How about playing with those little ovens when
they first came out. I still have my first Bisquick
cookbook. Messy but still love it.
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Finding newborn kittens in Grandpas garage
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Every fall when my mother would make apple pie. We would all sit around on the living room floor covered in newspapers. My parents would peel the apples and my sisters and I would cut them up and sugar them.
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Playing house with my cat and Chatty Cathy
I could dress my cat and he would stay in the
doll carriage
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Oh, so many...
I grew up out in the country and we ran wild unsupervised all day. We had to stay within the sound of the car horn, which meant dinner would be ready by the time we ran home.
Loved 4th of July. We'd go to my Uncle Bill's house after the parade and have real homemade lemonade in a 5 gallon crock, all the hot dogs, hamburgers, chips, etc. And when it got dark, we'd drag out the 'illegal' fireworks and have a ball. My uncle would always have these pinwheel things that you nailed to a board, and then when you lit it, it would spin around with a shower of sparks. And all the sparklers we could want.
Loved Halloween. We'd always have a fall wiener roast and roast marshmallows, too. I love the smell of wood smoke to this day. We'd have hay rides, and make great homemade costumes. I was a purple robot one year (spray-painted cardboard boxes with flexible corrugated plastic tubing on my arms), yelling "Danger, danger, Will Robinson!" LOL. And we soaped windows and corned cars.
Love meteor showers. We'd go way out away from any lights and lay on top of the car and just watch the Milky Way and the occasional meteor. It was so neat and peaceful.
Loved Christmas. Loved cutting down a tree and the smell of pine in the house. We'd go to Grandma's on Christmas Eve and her tree would always have bubble lights on it. If they didn't bubble, you'd tap them and they'd start again. One year, "Santa" came in with presents. We were old enough to know there wasn't a Santa Claus, so we went through all the adults to see who was missing. We'd thought we'd figured out it was my Uncle Virgil, but then he walked back in from the bathroom. We were gob-smacked - who was it? Years later, Dad confessed they'd gotten a neighbor to come over, and then later someone returned the favor at his house.
Wow, what a great thread! I had a wonderful childhood.
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Thank You Riley702, I enjoyed reading You List.
Welcome
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Making doll clothes out of old dress we had grown out of.
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My grandmother making all of her granddaughters a quilt. I was upset (teenagers!) that mine was pink and green, because even then I hated pink and thought it was a weird combination. I treasure it now.
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My mom got me those black and white shoes
they where very nice cause we couldnt effort them
except if we bought them on base. My classmate
got mud on them the first day I wore them.
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I remember going to visit my one of my Grandma's who loved to bake pie. She always made me an apple pie (my favorite) and a chocolate pie (my brother's favorite) and then my mom got hers at the end of the visit, lemon merangue. What we didn't at dinner my grandfather would take to work the next day for his lunch. She taught me how to bake and for years I've made an apple pie for my birthday instead of having cake and think of Grandma.
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I might try that this month instead of cake.
I remember finding bottle caps and glue them
together and paint them for the Christmas tree
(didnt cost alot)
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Christmas makes me think of making ornaments from butter top lids!
We would cut out old cards and glue them on the lid and poke a hole in the top and put glitter on them and put a piece of yarn through it as a hanger for the tree. I still have one my daughter made when I did it with my kids when they were little.
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What about taking green craft paper and
cutting it thin to put in the Easter baskets.
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going to Ocean Shores in WA to dig razor clams and watching my dad get knocked over by big waves while bent over to go after a clam
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Riding through the forest on our ponies, with my sister.
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Seeing others smile when I offered them my mud cakes.
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Waiting for the first day the Popsicle man came
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Playing dress up with old clothes and shoes
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Making sand castles at the beach and not worrying
about oil spill or pollutants in the water.
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Hear, hear!
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