Five good childhood memories
Jan 30th, 2008 by jeremy
I’m talking about earliest memories here, none of them are particularly good or bad. After thinking and jotting memories down for a week, there are the five earliest I can remember. When I started thinking about it, I thought for sure all the bad memories would stand out, after all I’m a huge pessimist.
1. Climbing the apple tree. The apple tree in our backyard in Kaysville was huge, judging by memory I’d guess it was at least 100 feet tall (I’ll stick with the memory, it makes it more of an accomplishment). Getting past the bottom trunk was the hard part, and it was pretty amazing when I finally got up and realized how high I was. I could see the roof of our house! I loved that tree. The worst part about building a new house is that the trees I plant will only be enjoyed fully by my grandkids.
2. Roundy’s House. When I was young I was friends with Brian Roundy who lived a few blocks away, and I thought their house was the coolest place ever to visit. I can still remember when their dad mowed paths in the backyard grass instead of mowing it all, and we would run around on those paths making up different games to play. It was also where I started eating what is still one of my favorite lunches of all time, tuna fish sandwiches and chicken noodle soup. As a bonus we always had a good time teasing his sister, who’s now my friend, Allie Cat.
3. Flooding the yard. The house I grew up in didn’t have a sprinkling system. Instead we’d dam the ditch running alongside out property and irrigate the yard. Friends would come over and we would have water fight and slide around in the water.
4. The drive-in. I don’t remember how many times we went, but loading up the truck with sleeping bags and pillows to go watch a movie still stand out in my mind. The family would cram into the back of the pickup and have a great time chowing down on popcorn and treats from the grocery store. I can’t remember a single movie we saw, just how much fun it was to go see it.This one has translated to my adult life, Britnie and I still go to the drive-in once or twice a summer, usually skipping the drive-in popcorn for some takeout Mexican or Chinese food. Plus I can usually get her to make out with me between movies to gross out all the kids in the vehicles around us.
5. Renting a television. This one is similar to the drive-in. I can’t remember a specific movie or television show we watched (other than my dad watching the last episode of M.A.S.H.), just how much fun and exciting it was to watch it. We didn’t have a t.v. for years while I was growing up. But at certain times during the year (Christmas Eve being one), my parents would go rent a t.v. and VCR so we could watch a movie or something special. It was a huge deal, we had treats and sat around as a family enjoying whatever event was big enough for us to watch.
More list of five here.
I love when you do posts like this. Your “5″ idea is great. Did you like not having a t.v. when you were younger?
Jessica
At the time? I hated it. Now I can appreciate it because I believe it was a large factor in me becoming such a book lover.
Allie Cat! I had totally forgotten about that nickname. Great post.
Hehe, I can actually still see her sitting on the curb crying because Brian and I wouldn’t stop calling her that. It was so mean.
These lists are so interesting to me. The drive in movies were so much fun for all of us. We should do that again when grandchildren get older. We do have a nice pickup to use (but we won’t drive back and forth to the movie with you guys riding in the back of the truck).
I also had a great time irrigating. It never seemed like to much of a chore, and you kids had such great fun.
Renting the tv is what we did to keep children from coming downstairs after Santa had gone to bed. Sneaky, huh?
Living without a tv was so hard for me as a mother - I couldn’t plop you down in front of the tv to entertain you. Now, I am so glad we did it. Perhaps we still wouldn’t have one if grandparents had not interfered with out decision and presented us with a used tv for Christmas in front of all of you. They didn’t want you to go without–GRRR. It was a real sore spot for a few years and was so wrong for them to do.
Your favorite memories are some of my favorite memories as well. I still remember getting stuck in the apple tree and being afraid.
One of my favorite childhood memories is my dad bringing home a color tv a few times a year for us to watch programs that were special to us. I especially remember when he would bring it home to watch Rogers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella”. That was a favorite. I remembere one year I missed the whole show because I was sitting at the dinner table refusing to eat my Tuna casserole (which was cold and which I still refuse to make OR eat!). Ah such great childhood memories. We also did the drive in movie thing both as a child with my mom and dad and as a parent with our children.
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