August 2010 Tell Us About Contest 1/winner Announced

that was many decades I remember my mom working a lot and me watching my younger sister so we didn't have a lot of fun things to do.it was just me and my sister and mom dad left

I miss baking with my grandmother
I was too small at first and she used to open a cupboard and I would sit on it
But if I started swinging on it I used to feel the wrath of the dreaded 'wooden spoon'
LOL

I miss the good ole days, I grew up in Newark New Jersey it was just like new york city,we lived in a 3 story apartment bulilding and back then there were no computers no video games, we had a back yard so to speak, it was made of concrete no grass around my neighborhood lol, all of us kids in all the apartments would go back there and play wiffle ball and kick ball, we would have a blast, then every Saturday we would go to the movies it was 1/2 block away, loved the matinee we get to see looney tunes lol. Every holiday the whole family Gramdma and Grandpa and all my Aunts,Uncles and cousins would always be together, Gosh the simpiler times seem so long ago. Now family members have passed and I live here in Florida away from my family thats left uggg, ok enough this has depressed me now. But those are some of the things I remember, and miss so much.

pevangel

I miss my parents so much! They are the best memory of my childhood

The simplicity of feeeding squirrels cookies. They'd be there waiting after school for me.
After coming home and having about 10 on the front stoop waiting, my mother told me to stop, lol

I missed every thing about 1950, it was lots of fun and relaxing time. lots of family time. the early 60 was good also

I remember spending a lot of my summers on my grandparent's farm. The home made butter, sausage balls and making doll clothes form the flour sacks sitting under the fruit trees. I also remember riding in the rumble seat of the model ford LOL

Now those are old memories

win4maw

I could swear that the days were so much longer when I was younger...i remember being able to pack so many places and events into a single day...where as today i would be lucky to even accomplish one. This contest also reminded me of a song by Supertramp - The Logical Song.

My Mom used to fill a miracle whip jar with peaches and syrup and put it in my Dads lunch pail when he worked in the coal mine. My Dad would come home from the mine dead tired with black around his eyes and I'd go running for his lunch pail. It would be black from coal dust, but I didn't care in the slightest. That Miracle whip jar would always be there still filled with those peaches. Those peaches tasted like heaven to a 5 year old coal miners son.

Playing Graveyard Hide N' Seek @ Midnight with my entire family...including bro, sis, mom, dad, gram, gramps, 2 aunts, 2 uncles, and all my cousins!!...lol Especially on a moonless windy night !!!!

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I remember going to the farm (grandparents home) and all the family would be together..the adults would be talking, eating, drinking and all us kids would be chasing the chickens, teasing the goats (yes sharon real goats..LOL), imitating the pigs, playing hide & seek and just being happy..

Oh and Monica of course was in the field kissing boys go figure

SC

This is a really cool contest. Listening to everyones memories of their childhood

I was a very lonely little child so I escaped to the wonders of the world and how things work. Experimenting with my first chemistry set was heaps of fun.

I remember when I was young my sister and all of our cousins always got together for family gatherings on a regular basis, us girls would dance and act like we could sing and thought we were true rock stars. We were all so very close, now we're all so far away. Oh how true it is, we think we want to grow up and now we want to turn back the clock. I've enjoyed life though with many good memories!

OMG the fun I had as a kid.... the whole neighborhood of kids would get together for a ball game or a game of kick the can, hide and seek, or red rover, red rover. Skating down the Church sidewalk was a super challenge, making sure your skates were tightened properly with the key, then avoiding the cracks in the sidewalk (whick seemed to change from side to side with almost every block) and making the turn at the bottom of the hill to avoid hitting the gravel. Used to go to a small local waterfall for picnics almost every day in the summer time and winter meant sledding down an old farm path or ice skating on the pond (after shoveling the snow off it lol) I miss those days! Kids today don't know what fun really is