My Favorite Childhood Memory is.....

Jumping in puddles.

Getting to do the wishbone after Thanksgiving

Going to the drive-in movies at night. We would climb into our station wagon wearing our pajamas.

Building sandcastles at the beach.

One year when I was a kid, for some reason there was a bumper crop of milkweed fluff. I don't know why, and have never figured it out. Anyway, the air was full of the stuff, blowing all over. I remember sitting on the balcony with my Dad on a beautiful afternoon, and we would try to catch a piece of fluff as it flew by. I don't think we ever quite succeeded, although we tried hard.

Getting early dismissal from school because the snow was coming down hard and heavy!

Seeing the teacher smile, as I gave her my homemade valentine,

Learning to ride a skateboard.

Jumping in puddles.

Trick or treating or "The Great Candy Pillage" with my older sister. We'd take pillowcases for our candy and always had to make two trips out of that one night because if we didn't the pillowcases probably would have ripped

Not stepping on cracks in the cement

You would break Your mother back was the saying

Playing freeze tag and Mother may I

Going to the drive-in movies with our parents. We always wore our pajamas and we would fight in the back seat if either one of us touched the other...I know stupid. Also, going to the library with my mother was always a treat, along with having picnics in the park when my dad would come home from work. Such good times!!

Playing "slug bug" with my older sister on long car trips

Oh, snow cones! I remember making them at the fourth of July with the old fashioned crank machine.

You could get a gumball for a penny at the post office. They were the stalest gumballs ever - somebody must have had a stash of ancient ones they were trying to sell off. But hey, they were only a penny!