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Monday, March 4, 2013

My Best Childhood Memory

Day 4 of the 31 Day Challenge:

My Best Childhood Memory.

I have so many good childhood memories.  Most involve my grandma in some way.  Some of them include:

Playing Barbies outside my grandma's house and a neighborhood dog usually came up and stole one.  I would find it later with a hand missing or a foot chewed on.  I would still play with it.  In fact, I still have a lot of them.

Me and my cousins and brother would play business in my grandma's building behind her house.  It was usually either store or business and because I was the oldest (and I am extremely bossy) I always picked the game and I was always the boss...haha

I remember playing paper dolls under my grandma's table during city council meetings (my grandma was treasurer).  Sometimes I could get the secretary's son to play with me.  My grandma would get me a new paper doll book every time just to make sure I had plenty to entertain me.

On my mom's side, I remember getting together with a huge amount of cousins at Thanksgiving and Christmas and playing football in the front yard of whatever house we were at.  I also remember most of us pairing off at the end of the night and staying the night at someone else's house.

I remember when I was 9 going down the steepest hill in town on a bicycle.  I remember crashing half way down right in front of the boy I liked at the time's house.  His best friend gave me an ice pack and offered to share half of his pb & j with me.

My favorite birthday party was my 9th birthday.  I had 12 girls spend the night and we stair-sledded on a mattress, had a fashion show, a singing contest and the next day we went skating where I was joined by about 6 or 7 more kids.  One of my friends fractured her leg before we even got in the skating rink.  She fell outside in a pothole.

I have so many others including family vacations in the car and basically just tormenting my little brother (until he got 6 inches taller than me).  I actually had a pretty good middle school/teenage experience too.

If you want to read other best childhood memories, head over to Fabulous Finds by Tiffany.


10 comments:

  1. Sounds like you've got some great memories. I remember playing with paper dolls, too.

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    1. I loved paper dolls. Barbie and Rainbow Brite come to mind as being the ones I had most.

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  2. Oh I loved paper dolls when I was little! That's kinda sad about the dog chewing on the barbie, I think I would have been devastated lol

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    1. It was sad about the dog chewed Barbies at the time, but now I bring them out and my daughter and her friend laugh at the misfortune my Barbies have endured. Most of them also have haircuts given by me. They still have a good time playing with them. :)

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  3. My grandma had a cupboard in her kitchen island filled with paper dolls and coloring books just for me. You brought that memory back to me by sharing yours! Thank you!

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    1. My grandma kept mine in an old copy paper box to grab and go. It also had coloring books in it. It was a special day when I got new markers and got to use them. Glad I was able to bring back a memory for you.

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  4. I lost a few Barbies that way too!

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    1. You think we would have learned our lesson after the first one...haha!

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