My Favorite Childhood Memory is.....
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We camped every year in August. My dad made a camoflagued table tent and we had a tent big enough to fit all eight of us. We had bed bunks, an oven we used to bake over the coals and lamps to light our way at night. At night we read classics as long as the lamp or candles would last. I loved to listen to the different voices reading our stories: White Fang, The Call of the Wild, Cannery Row, Romeo and Juliet. I don't remember all the books we read during that month of August, but I remember the voices of my sisters and brothers, Mom and Dad reading the books, bringing them to life. All their personalities enchancing the story line, bringing the characters to life. A great time.
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Oh I remember the clip clop sound of my Moms playing cards as she played solitary every evening while I was trying to go to sleep. It was a quite little sound that I could here from my room at the top of the stairs.
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I remember going to see my Grandma in a big house to me, And Grandpa built garage doors.
one day he built me a play house out of scraps of wood, I thought it was the most beautiful
playhouse any child could have.
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Captain Kangaroo!!! lol Yep...loved that guy... Watching Lawrence Welk and Red Skelton with the family... My dad singing us girls, "Goodnight ladies" every night before bed.... sigh...
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We I was young, We would got to 6:00 church group for kids on Friday
Got a free candy bar for going.
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How about Mighty Mouse, He was my hero
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Oh Mighty Mouse. I thought I was Wonder Woman and could leap 2 twin beds in a single bound. Ended up with a jambed finger but I did clear both beds. My siblings still make fun of me about that.
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How about freeze tag.
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I remember eating out of town. I had something with gravy and when parents werent looking yes I licked the plate clean. lol I was little not sure how young.
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I was a daddy's girl and I always wanted to be with him. He was a farmer. I had to stay in the back of the truck when he planted. We had a field that a creek ran along the edge. On the other side of the road was an area where people could fish. My dad told me if I got a catfish, he would take it off for me. Well, I caught a catfish and waited for him to get back to the end of the field where the truck was. The field was a 1/4 mile long and he went slow when he was planting. By the time he got to the end where I was, the fish was dead when he took it off the hook.
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I love to help my Grandma cook, So she bought my a Betty Crocker oven for
kids, it really worked.
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Saving my pennys for the Popicle Man
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My mother's birthday was a day before mine and halloween is the day after my birthday. My birthday seemed to get lost. My aunt (my mother's sister) always made me feel special - she baked whatever cake I said I wanted - even if she never made one like that before. She always sewed something for me. The one thing I remember that she sewed was a black corduroy jacket.
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I love to remember going to the beach and looking for shells
and there was not very much trash, broken bottles. You
could walk the beach and play in the water. I also loved
to help cover my brother in sand.
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I always loved to visit this one old lady, She was alone
and shared cookies with me, She was very poor. I helped
her that day and she wanted to feed me, I was going to
and as we sat down to eat, I went to wash me hand and she had
made the hamburger out of Skippy dog food, I ask her for water
and slipped it in a napkin. She never ask my and I alway brought
thing to eat with me.
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Working to get my Girl Scout Badges, Helping and learning alot.
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Waterskiing
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My brother always got me a pigeon in the spring, usually one that fell out of its nest. I would feed it bread w/milk. They usually flew away when they were old enough. This one time, I tried to nurse a baby back to health and it was making progress. Then, for some reason, the pigeon died. I remember being so crushed. I ran to my mother crying. While she was hugging me, she cried, too.
Not until we are parents or grandparents or just close to young children, do we realize we hurt for the child so much that our tears flow with theirs.
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I remember the special way we played house,
I didn't have alot so we used boxes and branches
It was alot of fun.
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two comnents. dh, i never knew a pain greater than when my 19 yr old daughter broke up with her first real boyfriend ...later in life we laughed that i hurt more than she did over that one! and my fav memory ... sitting at dad's feet when he came home on fri night after work .,.. late ... and mom made him cheese omeleette...i'd sit on floor and he'd give me a bite egery 3rd or so ... i am one of six but that was a time when it was just me nad my dad ... thanks for putting this forum up so i was able to remember this and have asmile and a tear ... both lovingly.
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Girl Scout camp!
Leah
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Best Memory Is Christmas Morning!!
Dad and I would discovered that when Santa left on Christmas Eve- there was small pieces of candy on our front porch because Santa had a hole in his sack - ha! Seems it was a few years that Mrs. Claus didn't sew that hole up.
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oh...such great memories....thanks ladies!! I have gotten goose bumps..laughs, and tears....
I am glad so many of you are enjoying it. I know for me...it helps me to go back...and just slip away for a bit.
xoxo
Lisa
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Getting to spend nights with my nanny and her sewing for me and spoiling me.
packing a picnic lunch and taking off on my bicycle all day
laying under a shade tree reading a good book (nancy drew)
Going to Chickasaw national park and spending the whole day hiking and wading with my BF
The washita river split our land into, we use to rowboat up and down the river and when it was shallow from no rain, wade up and down it catching fish with our hands in the shallows
Daddy use to have a cable car if the river was up he rode the cable car across the river, going was fast and fun but you had to pull yourself back across.
As you can tell I was a tomboy, we had a tree house, I carried a gun and could shoot a turtles head off, daddy use to say I could shoot better than him. We were poor but I didn't know it and that is how we got our food, shooting squirrls and catching fish. It was a good life.
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Spending a couple of weeks with my grandma and Grandpa Reeder the summer I was 8 and she taught my sister and I how to sew up patchwork pillows for our dolls and I created a rag doll out of muslin (I didn't know the type of fabric then) that I drew the face on with crayons and made clothes for it. It was shaped like a gingerbread boy but I drew it, cut it out and sewed it up on my grandmother's treadle sewing machine. They only turned the TV on to watch the evening news, then it went off. We (my brother, sister and I ) spent all day outside, climbing the old apple tree and the peach trees that they had in the 'orchard'. playing hide and seek in the corn field and barn.
Sheila
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The smell of salt water and the sound of the waves hitting the beach bring back the week we spent every summer in Grand Isle. We went went another family and rented the whole front row of cabins facing the beach. My Grandfather and the Dad of the other family worked the Tarpon Rodeo while the rest of us spent day after day swimming, collecting shells, hermit crabs, crabbing and just having fun. At the end of the day we would boil the crabs we caught, chase sand crabs in the dark, walk along the surf in the dark with a flashlight to see what we could find, then pass out in bed and start over the next day. I haven't been down to Grand Isle in years, but still love the beach and find it the most relaxing place to be.
I have many wonderful childhood memories, but this was the first to come to mind so I thought I'd share......
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Going to Grandpas for Easter and he always put change in his
chair and sofa he would tell us, " Grandma hasnt vacum the sofa or
chairs yet. We love it! (We didnt have alot of money in the family
anyway)
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Debbie: That is so cool for your Grandpa to do. I have never thought of that. I did go and buy packages of different stones and "glass" pebbles for my grandchildren to "find" in my rocks. They still look and find some (I did this 2/3 years ago) and ask if they can keep the rocks. I need to buy more.
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Like you Debbie, Sharing what we had with others.
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Kool aid stands
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