My Favorite Childhood Memory is.....

Seeing the snow in the mountain in California

Big Bear it was called

Riding in train to go visit Santa

Mmm, dim sum

Walking to school over a wooden bridge

hiking in the woods in Europe near my home at the time in a fairytale village

growing up in So Cal with mountains, oceans, sun, pools, and Disneyland

Went water skiing when I was 8, didn't stay up to long,

but was proud.

Having toothpaste fights with my sister (catapulting blobs of Colgate off our toothbrushes at each other). Well, except that time she got me in the eye....not so much a good memory. Don’t think it’s a great memory for my mum either...clean up and all. Maybe I should just scratch this memory off the list lol!

Happy Mother’s Day to all those toothpaste cleaning mommas!

Every year my family took a 2-week camping vacation on the Trent River in Canada with my Mom's family. I got to spend 2 weeks with all of my cousins, some of whom I only saw during this vacation and at Christmas. We had so much fun! Swimming, fishing, campfires, fish frys, sleepovers in each other's campers/tents, and just hanging out! All of my grandparents would go - my Mom's parents and my Dad's. It was a 2-week family reunion!! I wouldn't trade those memories for anything in this world!!

Getting new shoes (used) on Air Force Base at the NCO club

Black and white and hard on feet. Cost less was like new.

Footprintsangel, I just scrolled down this thread and saw your entry about seeing snow in Big Bear, CA! I lived in Big Bear for a few years when my son was an infant/ toddler! We moved there in the summer which is equally gorgeous, with pleasant cool weather and reasonable rentals, especially compared to the Los Angeles area! It was one of the most beautiful places I have lived.

A favorite childhood memory was driving up this same mountain, to Lake Arrowhead, another city closeby, to a lot my dad had purchased. He would drive us there to see and play in the snow. I think he dreamed of building a cabin there. My best friend Jackie came with us.

Making cookies in my little oven that really worked.

The Partridge Family, The Brady Bunch, playing til the streetlights come on, running barefoot all summer long, riding bikes all over town, wearing dresses to school because pants weren't allowed until I was in 2nd grade, school dances, sleepovers with my 2 best friends or my cousins almost every weekend, slumber parties, buying elementary school lunches for .30, bringing home the Scholastic book order form & begging to buy books!!, spying on my brothers especially once they got girlfriends, trying to swing so high you could flip over the top (like that would ever happen!! Lol), jumping out of the swing, gym class, dodge ball, climbing the rope (the dreaded rope!!!), TB tests that left the little circles on your arm, the red tablets the school nurse gave you to chew to show you how bad you brushed your teeth, snowball fights, building snowmen, snow days, the Blizzard of '78 - we got 2 weeks off school!!, school lunches - the pizza was great, the grilled cheese with spinach and boiled egg wasn't!!, the little squares of jello with cool whip on top, getting my letterman jacket, being in the school marching band & pep band, going to football & basketball games, band camp!!!, the bus trips to away football games & competitions, my high school sweetheart (my husband now!!), proms, homecoming dances, Sadie Hawkins dances, so many memories, so much fun!!!!!

Thanks Oceanbum, Now I remember that school nurse and

the 30 cent lunches I couldn't get we didn't have , to much. Peanut

butter and jelly sandwich were my lunch alot

I remember the last day of school was “Field Day