shoppingnut Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Mine is when me and my sister were little, my parents took us to Disney World and we had no idea we were going until dad drove into the parking lot. We sat in the back seat of the car and hugged each other,, we were so excited! Link to comment
mhowe Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Swimming with my dad and being put up on his shoulders. Link to comment
Patrick974 Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Would anyone believe me if I say I have no memories from pre-10 year old ? I had this discussion with an old man the other day. And as a teen I had no great memories, kissing a girl for the first time was the high point of these years for me. Link to comment
Seraphim Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 The year our new neighbour dressed up as Santa and came to our house with a horse drawn buggy. Link to comment
Seraphim Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Camping and my mom taking 8 mm movies of us. Playing outside on the open prairie with my brother for hours on end. My dogs Link to comment
imsuperman Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Watching Ohio State football in the 90s on Saturdays with my grandpa and hearing him laugh whenever they made a great play. Link to comment
Seraphim Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Rolling in the leaves down the hills with my mom. Link to comment
luminousone Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Every summer we would go to visit my great aunt, who lived at a lake in Michigan. We swam all day and played kick the can every evening with all of the kids up and down the shore. Some day maybe I will be able to get back there to see the place through adult eyes. My aunt died some years ago and her place has been torn down to make way for a luxury home... Link to comment
mhowe Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 On Thanksgiving Day while the turkey cooked, driving into the country and visiting really old cemeteries and reading the headstones. Link to comment
alli Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Biting my cousin on the hand when I was maybe 4 years old because he took all of my big red blocks. Not because he wanted them but because he didn't want me to have them. He deserved it; he was always a jerk to me. Link to comment
chitown9 Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Catching fireflies in my grandparents' backyard in Chicago. My parents and grandparents were there. We kept them in a jar. chi Link to comment
mhowe Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Roasting marshmallows on a stick over the dying coals of the grill on a summer night. Waking up early and walking up the street to watch the morning glory's open in the morning sun. Riding in the wheel barrow on top of the grass clipping when our neighbor was pushing it to the ravine. Link to comment
Seraphim Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 My mom making homemade pizza and watching hockey night in Canada on Saturday night. Cleaning the house with my mom and stepdad and my brother every Saturday. Every Saturday my mom would turn on music and everybody would clean the house together. The year my mom took a year off work and I was able to come home for lunch from school and sit with my mom and have a hot lunch. Link to comment
Seraphim Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 My eighth birthday. I felt like I was a princess for a day. I was so excited !I got taken to the most expensive place in town I got to have a lobster dinner and the place even had ballroom dancing. I got to pick out my own huge princess cake. Even though the day was more than 40 years ago I still remember the excitement of it. That day I felt like I really really mattered. Link to comment
petite Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Swimming naked in the ocean, lol. Eating bread drizzled with olive oil and salt My grandfather picking strawberries with me Watching a bee sting my youngest sister and not doing a thing about it. Because, funny. Kicking the next door neighbor in the stomach for spitting on my new jacket. Saw the jerk a few years ago, he's still an arse lol. BBQ's with my family Trips to Italy Cuddles from my grandmother Playing cards with my nonno Link to comment
Scoe141 Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Building forts/playing in the woods. Playing hide-and-seek in the neighborhood. Riding bikes to a local store to buy candy. Link to comment
mhowe Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 After a major ice storm --- skating on top of the lawns throughout the neighborhood. We used shovels to clear the snow, and made streets, and raceways. It lasted for more than a week. Link to comment
Hoagy Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 Being force fed sweets every Christmas Going into town every Saturday morning with my mum, buying my comic then standing in the shop window reading it while she bought the bread Holidays in Devon Getting our first video recorder and being able to rent films without waiting for them on TV Watching the A-Team on a small black and white portable while eating sausage rolls Link to comment
ParisPaulette Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 Too many to count, but the first time I rode a horse and they began to gallop and I knew exactly what to do, how to hold on, how to move to let the horse go faster. And we flew accross the desert floor. Pure bliss and a speed junkie and horsewoman was born that day. I was nine. Also the really elaborate whole neighborhood nighttime hide and go seek fests we'd hold with kids and adults in the summer. We turned the game into a serious art form. I mean, people who wouldn't even talk to each other in the daylight would turn out for these things and be teammates. It was crazy, wild, stupid, dangerous and the most fun I think I ever had. I still miss it. Link to comment
Fudgie Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 Having picnics in the backyard. Going to the lake with my family. Riding on my dad's back, piggy back style. Playing with the dog outside. Eating berries out of the berry brushes in the backyard. Smelling the cow manure and fermented grapes. I miss being more carefree than I am now. I wish I could go back to a time where I had maybe fewer worries. Now I am older and adulthood largely sucks. My family keeps me going and the memories do too. Link to comment
imsuperman Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Going to the pool in summer like eight hours a day with the 90s music playing there all day. Link to comment
IAmFCA Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Single best childhood memory? The time I thought my family forgot, but actually they threw me a surprise 6th birthday party? Sitting on the boat, on the bow, feet dangling over the side. Link to comment
mhowe Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Ohhh --- that sparked one. Attaching a lanyard to the mast and using it as a swing to fly out over the ocean and dive in! Link to comment
IAmFCA Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Ohhh --- that sparked one. Attaching a lanyard to the mast and using it as a swing to fly out over the ocean and dive in! I really like this memory mhowe. A great one. Link to comment
mhowe Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 I really like this memory mhowe. A great one. Thanks to you for sparking it up! Our summer vacations when I was a late teen would be to charter a large sailboat for the last two weeks of the summer. We were each allowed to invite a friend for a few days and the kids all slept on the boat and my parents would get a hotel room. They were awesome vacations...and I now live in the area we came to! Link to comment
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