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My Childhood Memories Meme

I was tagged by Spurs at Pull My Finger with this meme:

Five Things I Miss From My Childhood-

I am supposed to remove item #1 from this list, bump everyone up one place and add my blog to the 5 spot applying links to all.
1. Villainous Company
2. Riehlworldview
3. Third World County
4. Pull My Finger
5. Quality Weenie

5 Things I miss from my childhood:

1 - Decorating for Christmas. My dad and I were huge christmas fans and it would take us days to decorate inside and out. Hanging lights, putting fixtures out, putting the tree up and making sure everything was in it's correct place. As I got older it would be our special time to talk about the year and just bond. *sigh* I miss that, especially because hubby, I swear, is anti-christmas and refuses to hang even one bulb on the tree.

2 - My birthday. My dad always made sure your birthday was extra special, always made a big deal about it. He would ask what you wanted for dinner and you could have anything made you wanted, the cake was always your favorite. You could do anything you wanted on your day, he made me feel like a little princess on my birthday.

3 - Florida for Easter. Every year, for 13 years, we went to Florida for 2 weeks during the Easter Holiday. I have been to everything place, visited every attraction that was in Florida before 1982. We would tow the pop-up camper and spend 2 weeks as a happy camper family.

4 - Christmas morning. I would always wake up early and sneak down to see what santa had left and wait until the appointed hour and then run and wake up sibilings and parents and dog and run out to open gifts. My dad would always make breakfast after the gifts were opened, pancakes and sausage links. The pancakes would be in the shape of Mickey mouse.

5 - Camping during the summer. We would camp for 8 weeks during the summer up at a local campground. We met people there and all of us would camp for the summer together and have lots of fun hanging out, swimming, gossiping, causing trouble and having fun. Those were uncomplicated summers, spent growing into women, learning that stuff together.

Posted by Quality Weenie at June 6, 2005 10:44 AM