My Favorite Childhood Memory is.....

footprintsangel

Making my parents smile with good report cards

dkhancock1948

I have a brother that is 9 years older than me.  He used to put me on his shoulders and we would go to the side ditch and pick raspberries.  Sometimes he would take me to a corn field and we would pick a couple of ears, husk it and then eat it.  It was field corn before it got hard.

footprintsangel

Waiting For my Dad to fly home from Viet Nam to see us,

had a Cat clock for me, I was so happy to see him.

lvtwoqlt

Waiting for my uncle G to return from Viet Nam. Mom took us out of school and Dad stayed home from work that day. The whole family (grandma, grandpa, 6 aunts and uncles and their families) waited at the airport for Uncle G's plane to land then we all stopped at the grocery store to buy stuff for Lunch. We had Thanksgiving Dinner in May of Bologna sandwiches, chips and fruit because Uncle G was finally home. He just told my dad a story of his tour last month that he hadn't told before.

As part of a college class my sister was taking for 'early childhood development', she wrote a children's story about the day my Uncle came home from war, included photos of that day and child like drawings of the activities surrounding that day. My uncle cried when he got a copy of her book.

Sheila

spar2

Going arrowhead hunting with my dad

exploring caves

dreaming

My favorite memory was sitting in my fathers Library reading and later talking with him about books.

Thanks to him I am never alone ,because I love to read. The large home is gone like my father, but his books are with me.

footprintsangel

Going to the Air Force base swimming pool, The family

would get together at that time, After we cooled down

we went shopping together,

dkhancock1948

When I was a teenager, my dad was retired.  (He was 44 when I was born).  He would fix me breakfast and I would sit on the floor and talk with him.

kbugmom

I remember taking dried corn and making a necklace.

kbugmom

I would go to park near my house ride small train and get snow cones. That was so much fun

my3girls

I remember my Dad bringing me a small heart shaped box of candy on Valentines day.....I felt so special!!

footprintsangel

Now kids get too much candy

I remember I got one Chocolate Bunny for easter

and everyone shared the jelly beans

footprintsangel

We made necklaces our of macaroni noodles in Brownies

footprintsangel

I loved to play jacks and my brothers played marbles.

everyone was happy with little things and now days!

dkhancock1948

I would get a chocolate heart on Valentine's Day and an chocolate Easter bunny on Easter.  I had forgotten about those.  Thanks for the memory!

footprintsangel

I loved to fined wild flowers for my teacher.

And made dried pressed flower for mom

Faith316

Exploring through the treasures in my Great Aunt's attic and then coming down the painted gray stairs into the kitchen and eating homemade Snickerdoodle cookies.  Yummy!

footprintsangel

My Grandfather made garage doors and one day he made

me a play house out of scraps, I thought it was wonderful.

I didnt care if it was scraps.

dkhancock1948

One time, my mother and I made taffy.

footprintsangel

Girl scouts around the fire singing kom bi ya

footprintsangel

Sharing my popcicle with my brother cause we couldn't

afford another one. But we thought it was wonderful.

footprintsangel

Walking home from school, We were so lucky not to have

gangs when I was in K-6 we had sit outs in the 70s

footprintsangel

Going to Vacation Bible Study in the Summer

my3girls

running down the hill of our brick street, after a heavy rain..the water would be flowing, and it was warm...cause it was summer...and mom would let us go out and get wet!

footprintsangel

Making time as a Brownie to work on badges

Estepp

Collecting bottle caps..............

footprintsangel

getting our dime from the tooth fairy

footprintsangel

Watching the Wizard of Oz in black and white

Scared of the mean witch.

footprintsangel

Making mud and dandelion pies for Grandma

my3girls

shining up my black patent leather mary jane's for church on Sunday..we used vasoline.