My Favorite Childhood Memory is.....
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Seeing the snow in the mountain in California
Big Bear it was called
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Having a nice warm slice of my paternal grandmother's homemade banana bread.
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Riding in train to go visit Santa
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Having dim sums with my grandparents every Sunday.
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Mmm, dim sum
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Tea party with my cat
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Walking to school over a wooden bridge
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Watch my father come home from war
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hiking in the woods in Europe near my home at the time in a fairytale village
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Fishing with my dad in our old aluminum rowboat. The little motor would ALWAYS die on the way back, so he had to row. He'd playfully mutter swear-words in Lithuanian as he rowed. 40 years later, just last month, I was at my Grandmother's funeral and my cousin walked up to me and said he still had that rowboat (I guess my dad had given to him many years ago -- my dad died in 2013), and said he's going to bring it to my place the next time he's out this way. (He lives in Mass., I live in D.C.). I was blown away! Now I can take my own daughter fishing in that boat. I can't wait!!
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growing up in So Cal with mountains, oceans, sun, pools, and Disneyland
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Seeing the world as we travel from March AFB all
over the world, Japan when I was 2 years old is one place
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Went water skiing when I was 8, didn't stay up to long,
but was proud.
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Picking wild flowers for my mom on Mothers day, She loved them
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Having toothpaste fights with my sister (catapulting blobs of Colgate off our toothbrushes at each other). Well, except that time she got me in the eye....not so much a good memory. Don’t think it’s a great memory for my mum either...clean up and all. Maybe I should just scratch this memory off the list lol!
Happy Mother’s Day to all those toothpaste cleaning mommas!
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Seeing the sky in an Air Force Plane flying to Dads new Base
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Every year my family took a 2-week camping vacation on the Trent River in Canada with my Mom's family. I got to spend 2 weeks with all of my cousins, some of whom I only saw during this vacation and at Christmas. We had so much fun! Swimming, fishing, campfires, fish frys, sleepovers in each other's campers/tents, and just hanging out! All of my grandparents would go - my Mom's parents and my Dad's. It was a 2-week family reunion!! I wouldn't trade those memories for anything in this world!!
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Getting a slush made on hot days, mom made the best!
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Getting new shoes (used) on Air Force Base at the NCO club
Black and white and hard on feet. Cost less was like new.
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Seeing Dad when he got back from the battle field over
seas, Brought me back a cat clock from Thailand.
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Footprintsangel, I just scrolled down this thread and saw your entry about seeing snow in Big Bear, CA! I lived in Big Bear for a few years when my son was an infant/ toddler! We moved there in the summer which is equally gorgeous, with pleasant cool weather and reasonable rentals, especially compared to the Los Angeles area! It was one of the most beautiful places I have lived.
A favorite childhood memory was driving up this same mountain, to Lake Arrowhead, another city closeby, to a lot my dad had purchased. He would drive us there to see and play in the snow. I think he dreamed of building a cabin there. My best friend Jackie came with us.
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Doing my Brownie deeds so I could become a Girl Scout
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Making cookies in my little oven that really worked.
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Riding a real pony at Girl Scout camp
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The Partridge Family, The Brady Bunch, playing til the streetlights come on, running barefoot all summer long, riding bikes all over town, wearing dresses to school because pants weren't allowed until I was in 2nd grade, school dances, sleepovers with my 2 best friends or my cousins almost every weekend, slumber parties, buying elementary school lunches for .30, bringing home the Scholastic book order form & begging to buy books!!, spying on my brothers especially once they got girlfriends, trying to swing so high you could flip over the top (like that would ever happen!! Lol), jumping out of the swing, gym class, dodge ball, climbing the rope (the dreaded rope!!!), TB tests that left the little circles on your arm, the red tablets the school nurse gave you to chew to show you how bad you brushed your teeth, snowball fights, building snowmen, snow days, the Blizzard of '78 - we got 2 weeks off school!!, school lunches - the pizza was great, the grilled cheese with spinach and boiled egg wasn't!!, the little squares of jello with cool whip on top, getting my letterman jacket, being in the school marching band & pep band, going to football & basketball games, band camp!!!, the bus trips to away football games & competitions, my high school sweetheart (my husband now!!), proms, homecoming dances, Sadie Hawkins dances, so many memories, so much fun!!!!!
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Oceanbum,
I was in the 4th grade when the blizzard hit (fellow Ohioan). My brother and I had a blast those two weeks off, but then we had to go extra days to make it up.
Had forgotten about those crazy red tablets!
Great memories, thanks for the reminders!
Vickki
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Thanks Oceanbum, Now I remember that school nurse and
the 30 cent lunches I couldn't get we didn't have , to much. Peanut
butter and jelly sandwich were my lunch alot
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I remember having surgery when I was 4 in metal
beds at March AFB
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I remember the last day of school was “Field Day
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Or the teacher let us out early
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