My Favorite Childhood Memory is.....

Our family would walkup the hill to a cross and have Easter

serve there. I dont know if the cross is still there. Was there for

many years

Counting how many jelly beans I got. I was

so happy just to get alittle bit. 

Playing kick the can

Cutting out paper-doll clothes from McCalls Magazine

Seeing the Rose parade and I took a picture,

it was black and white automatic camera

Getting pop bottle money for things we needed

Had a little cassette recorder with a microphone, and would pretend I was a TV host and interview everyone in the house...LOL it got to where they would see me coming and run!!! Nothing left to tell me so they would scram...too funny, but oh what fun that was!!

Watching the birds fly in flocks in the morning,

I thought they were leaving the earth.

I also love to play the little organ I had

If I have to pick just one, it would be going to the beach which was across the street from us and enjoying all the activities that went on each day.  I usually went with my cousins ( who lived next door to me) and sometimes we'd just walk over or ride our bikes.  I still remember all those "sandy/crunchy" sandwhiches we ate everyday.  So many memories there...

I also remember Ice skating in the winter time on the inlet.  That's when we had real cold winters!  My brothers used to test the waters first, to make sure it was safe and that know one would fall in.  I do remember one of my brothers going through the ice and having to get pulled out.  We must have been crazy then, but it sure seemed like alot of fun back then.   I do know I wouldn't want my kids doing that!

Going to see my father fly home from war

and got a cat clock from him. 

Dressing my cat Tippy in doll clothes and taking him for

a walk in the doll carriage.

That sounds wonderful!

I remember my skates and having to have

the key to put them on, My brothers would use

them later for a race car wheels, then I would

get another pair later.

I have tons of great memories growing up on a farm in central Iowa. A highlight was showing Hereford steers and heifers at the Iowa State Fair. It was a lot of work, but very rewarding.

Making pancakes out of Bisquick for the first time,

I thought they were wonderful.