God's Grace in My Life

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April 14, 2006

Childhood...

Things i miss from childhood:
1. Being excited about little things - like riding the carousel if i was good in the grocery store.
2. Playing outside till it was dark.
3. Family dinner.
4. Olly-olly-oxen-FREEEEEE!
5. Sleeping till noon on saturdays.
6. Going to the dump with dad.
7. Being able to wear white socks with frillies on them with my dress shoes.
8. Playing in the sprinkler.
9. Being locked outside the house during the long summer days because we'd mess up dawn's cleaning!
10. Squeezing four children into the back of an Aries k-car and complaining because dawn sat sideways:)
11. Playing outside in the snow for hours on end and not caring that my feet were frozen.
12. Wearing socks on my hands in order to play in the snow because i couldnt find my mittens - and not caring what other people thought!
13. Riding Bikes and not being sore the next day!
14. letting my mom do my hair for me.
15. being carefree - no job, just play. 24/7.
16. begging to mow the grass or do laundry like the big kids.
17. playing "house".
18. Saying things like "lisa wants to know if she can come over..." to my parents.
19. getting the response "go ask your dad". (dad always said "yes":))
20. Cleaning out the shed. I hated it. seemed like such a waste of a saturday...yet i loved when it was clean and saw the fruit of our labor.
21. Building tents. Box fan tents, bunk bed tents, couch tents. you name it. we made it.
22. my clubhouse. dad made it specially for me and bob. boy was that cool. he even put a flower box on it for me.
23. Digging for salamanders.
24. Leaf sledding.
25. "king of the mountain"
26. Being together on Christmas morning.
27. Going thrift shopping with my mom and grandma.
28. Going to work with my dad.
29. Sleeping in my mommy's bed when i was sick.
30. Trying on my mom's shoes and thinking i was so cool.
31. Wearing my daddy's t-shirts:)

What are your favorite memories from childhood?

7 Comments:

At 8:31 PM, Blogger Jim and Angel said...

Favorite memories from childhood...
Not in any order=

1. Sock fights
2. Commanding my Army
3. Collecting dues from the Army I commanded
4. Putting eggs in the back yard...When jen found them she waited for it to hatch...HAHA
5. Painting rocks gold...so when Jen would find them she thought she was rich.
6. sleding down the Duplex driveway when it was fozen over.
7. Building a raft in Pelham
8. Using Bob as my test crash dummy.
9. Trying out a science experiment...but mistaking gasoline for alcohol
10. Stapling frogs to tupperware lids.
11. Building a sledding course
12. Trips to Ohio
13. Wacky family poses...oh wait, we still do that...

you know what, just see my blogspot

 
At 10:38 PM, Blogger Jennifer said...

oh yeah, and burning worms and leaves with a magnifying glass! great times!

 
At 11:06 PM, Blogger Jennifer said...

32. sock parties
33. remember the alamo
34. playing secretary with dad's old work phone.
35. catching tadpoles. catching frogs...switching them out and telling mom that it grew that much overnight...then having the frog get loose in the bathroom!
36. "bobsledding" in the front yard.
37. "sock-skating"
38. selling my drawings to the neighbors.
39. when bob sold soda out of a cooler on union st
40. painting rocks on the cape
41. being part of the WLVI kids club!
42. when bob played mailman
43. neil
44. elmer
45. when i made homemade mac and cheese with mozzerella
46. playing human sandwich
47. when dawn sat on her curling iron
48. when jimmy spit on doorknobs
49. when mom played the heritage strings EVERY morning for like a year!
50. air hockey
51. "johnboy johnboy, whatcha gonna do? whatcha gonna do when my dad meets you?"
52. BAREFOOT!
53. fake cigerettes from the waterhouse
54. calling that mystery story thing every morning during the summer to win prizes...till mom found out that we wracked up the phone bill!

 
At 9:15 AM, Blogger Unknown said...

I'm jumping on this bandwagon over on my blog too!

 
At 8:31 PM, Blogger Jennifer said...

55. playing 10,000 pyramid on our green and black computer.
56. air hockey pucks made out of brown food trays.
57. walking to the corner store in cleveland...it turned out to be a crack corner!
58. sitting there watching robby play nintendo followed by the phrase "you made me die!"
59. jumping off the porch into the snow.
60. "PATRICIA. DOWNSTAIRS!" "take out the dirt, rob!"
61. getting left at the airport.
62. playing "butt-bomb" on the neighbors trampoline!
63. telling bob his epidermis was showing.
64. green acres
65. when bob called 911 on union st. mom covered for us by saying that she was on the phone with us at that time...she new deep inside that robby called:)
66. "abigail, get off the wall!" "yes wobby!"
67. robby's rock tumbler
68. robby's levy system to get the trash to the parking lot and the groceries to the 3rd floor.
69. singing "there's a hole in my bucket" with dawn on the way to school on the cape.
70. tanning on the picnic table on the deck in pelham.
71. dad getting certs before sunday morning church
72. peking garden...jimmy was the "numba won son".
73. when jimmy pranked the neighbors and had to go to jail.
74. the rotor tiller
75. the speech in the car before church on sunday morning: "dont ask for anyone to come over. dont ask to go over anyone's house"
76. "find something contructive to do" and thinking that they always wanted me to play with construction paper.
77. masking tape down the center of bob and jim's room...
78. telling dawn she was going on a cruise for her birthday
79. mom telling me to sneak up the stairs and see if dawn was actually cleaning her room
80. the sock box in the living room closet
81. dad making faces on his hands and "finger man" during church:)
82. the junk drawers in the china cabinet
83. the people on 2nd floor smoking pot during jimmy's graduation party
84. dad telling us to "eat worms and die"
85. jimmy letting me drive his LeSabre when i was 14
86. the mattress in the back of jimmy's truck...and making bob ride back there! hahaha!
87. slamming my toes in the monte carlo door

 
At 11:40 PM, Blogger Heather said...

That’s funny—it is the same thing! Must be some sort of sentimental, reminiscent weekend.

 
At 11:43 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

i dont know any of des kids:))

 

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