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What is your favorite childhood memory?
Posted by OutsideMyBrain • 5/14/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Tags: childhood memories, memories, one sentance, writing
Here is the trick to this thread. In order for it to keep going, without becoming a novel, you have to tell your favorite childhood memory in one sentance.
So here is mine:
After waking up on a Saturday morning to 3 feet of freshly fallen snow, my brother and I spent the day careening down the hill behind our house on our recently purchased snowsleds.
I look forward to getting to know you all!
Remember - one sentance!
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Every Christmas Eve - the excitement, the build up, the family rituals of the day - it was even better than Christmas Day. -
We were so poor we were torn between keeping the rabbit as a pet, or eating it - we kept it.
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Aw, I guess you then had to go out haggis hunting for your dinner?
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Keeping it is a good way to lure cats into the yard. Have a club handy and you'll never go hungry.
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The scent of eucalyptus trees blowing in with warm wind through my bedroom window when all was simple and true in my world. -
Sitting on the doorstep at age 7 in our mining village eating fresh chips with malt vinegar from a newspaper watching the stars dance in the inky black sky. -
Making a tent using an old wooden clothes maiden and blankets, then eating sweets and reading in there.-
Ah, the memories of building tents and forts bring forth images of laughter and joy filled with times of abundant imaginary scenarios.
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I am glad it reminded you of nice times
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@crpitt: That is great! I remember creating tents in my room out of blankets and chairs. I would end up having multiple rooms in them and live in them for a week or so with a flashlight. Combined, you and I could have built a tent mansion.
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Eating Luv dog biscuits out of the dogs' bowls
kidzarama.com/yackety/dog-biscuit-memories/
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Popping out of Mothers and enjoying the light.
www.gosmelltheflowers.com
Assuming we're allowed sub conscious memories aswell. -
These are all great! Excellent word pictures... I'll be by to check out your sites when I have more time. Gotta go. Thanks!
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Thanks for starting this, it's been fun reading everyone's memories
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Your welcome janeycatte - I am enjoying these stories too. It seems that everyone of them triggers another memory of my own. BTW - Thanks for the comment over on my blog, I totally agree with you.
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According to my sister, it should be swinging in the back yard as she did the chores! Middle child coming out in her!-
That's funny... "according to your sister"... makes you wonder what her favorite memory is. lol.
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We once filled one of those plastic baby pools with chocolate pudding; a good time was had by all.-
HOW FUN WAS THAT! lol! most would do jello...pudding is tastier! yum!
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Moving out of my bio-mom's house and into my Dad's place when I was 14. -
My favorite memories of being a child are bathing in our pond with my mother. We were in a cedar forest and shafts of dazzling sunbeams sparkled on the top of the water like tiny stars. Dragonflies buzzed all around us and didn't seem to be bothered by our presence at all. Dark eyed timid deer watched us from the underbrush. I remember how beautiful I thought my mother was naked. She stood up, laughed and shook her long auburn hair that hung past her waist. The water drops that flew from her hair into the air also looked like a cascade of tiny stars.-
wow!
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Catching tadpoles all summer long at the forgotten moss pond in the woods, way at the bottom of the log rolling hill behind Nana and Papa's house. -
Laying in the backyard during the night while gazing at the domed universe of stars, feeling as if I could be sucked up and away to surroundings unknown, which forced me to hold the grass blades thinking that they would stablize me if the force of gravity gave way.
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@kdawg68: (Below) Although I only played a few games with him, my brother was really into "dice-ball", which is fantasy baseball based on "stats" and chance using regular dice, and I think a 10 side die, along with a baseball diamond laid out on a grid so that it could be determined if the ball was hit over the wall based on what stadium the game was being played at.
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that's one of mine too, although I'd forgotten it until I read yours
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Playing "baseball card baseball" with my brother and friends - an intricate game using cards, dice, and even a replica stadium we constructed. For the record, backup catcher Clint Hurdle was the god of our 1986 season. -
The day I laughed when my very prim and proper mother told me she use to ride western saddle. To prove it to me she jumped on my horse, gave it a kick and off they galloped.
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Acting out scenes from a certain tv show and portraying a favorite character at recess time.-
vfanblog: I use to do the same thing, sometimes I think that is how I got through rough times... I would pretend I was a character in a movie.
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Going to Disney World...would love to go again -
Let's all go! Bloggers Unite at Disney World!
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Climbing to the top of the jungle gym with all 5 of my brothers and sisters, and then singing a disney tune together at the top of our lungs.-
What a great memory to hold on to - what song or songs did you sing?
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eating ice cream with all the kids in town, and having all the stains in my clothes..love it -
This was fun & held many laughs!
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...playing hide and seek, prisoner, "shato", "patintero", and other Filipino games.-
That's great... how do you play "shato" and "patintero"?
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i was a tomboy and when i most felt joy and peace is when i was in the woods making camps, climbing trees and picking blueberries....we used to all pick blueberries together my cousins, aunts and my gramma....those were my best memories being with nature-
I used to climb up the wrought iron and onto the roof of our front verandah, then onto the roof when I wanted some peace. It was lovely.
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@lordiwanttobewhole: we built camps in the woods too and we called them forts, however instead of blueberries, we would eat the wild rasberries from the briar patch that would just melt in your mouth with a burst of sweetness.
@janeycatte: there is nothing like finding that place of solace away from it all to steal a few moments for ourselves without the hassles of life and schedules trying to shred away our sanity.
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walking through the woods with my dog and climbing what I then called 'mountains', exploring creeks and looking up at the heavens from grassy fields
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Isn't it amazing when we go back to our childhood environments, as grownups, only to see that the entire place has shrunk and is not nearly as big as we had it pictured in our mind.
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Family holidays in the 70's with our hippie caravan in tow.
Those days were the best. We'd stop by the side of the road in some dusty Australian country town. Mum would open a few cans of assorted vegetables (like baby carrots, potato salad, beetroot) and a can of spam of course - spam, it means something different these days - something unwanted. the world is getting sadder...oh for caravan holidays again.
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Though I haven't thought about this in years, my mom had a recipe for a spam casserole which included tator tots, peas and cream of cheddar soup.
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..they were the Spam glory days!
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My Eighth Birthday Party! -
One of the things I remember and loved to do is dancing around to the song that had the phrase "We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun" I do not think I have heard that song in years - use to love it! Does anyone know who sings it and the name??? If you do please leave me a message at my profile page - Thanks!
Shelley -
I used to love playing with what we called "glass animals" ... those were the little Wade Figurines that came in boxes of Red Rose Tea. Anyone else from Canada old enough to remember those?
Here's the Poodle:
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I had a glass monkey that I think came from tea.
Ahh, the glass toys we used to play with as kids. Seemed so safe -
Did it look like this? Hey, they were very safe! I still have a bunch of them. They're collectibles now, I think they can go for up to 20 bucks or something.
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OMG!!! That it!!!
That's "Glass monkey, that funky monkey"
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Click this link and buy him for $18.00
www.glassmenagerie.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/146_458/products_id/2... -
Hehe Drowsey's trying to sell her monkey for 18 bucks
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All right...very funny, LOL. And here I was gonna say I may have an extra and I'd send it to ya ... but now that doesn't sound right.
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Whoa. I can't even get one and you have extras
If I really looked I could probably track down my monkey.
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My mum said I couldn't play with my glass monkey cos it was for my wedding day. -
Thanks everyone - These are great! I don't recall the "glass monkey", but I do recall the glass "quail" and "pheasant" cologne bottles from Avon that my mom proudly displayed on their bathroom sink.
From an earlier comment:
Terry Jacks - Season in the Sun
youtube.com/watch?v=pfm-17pu6SQ
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