Remember When

[Merry Prankster]

Remember when the adults were fed first at family gatherings.  Now the children are always the first in line.

Remember when it was safe to go to bed at night with your windows wide open and you could feel the night air. 

At our large family gatherings, we all ate at the same time and had the adults table and the kids table.  One adult sat with us to keep some semblance of order.  By the time dinner was nearly over, all of the adults would be at the kids table.  We were where it was happenin', man.

[Prairie Dawn]

Remember when going to the movies was a big deal and people were respectful and quiet and the popcorn was fresh and buttery?

[Snowbird]

Remember playing with those  little rolly polly bugs that would roll up in a ball when you picked them up?
I haven't seen one in ages.

[ponytail]

push mowers! My Dad would cut crazy paths in the lawn first and let us run and play, and then do it all over the right way later on.

[Snowbird]

My dad use to "let" me use the push mower and then when he got a gas mower he wouldn't let me use it.  He was afraid I would slip and get my foot cut off.

Remember when everyone used real trees at Christmas.  We use to go in the woods behind our house and cut one down.  Getting it to stand up straight was sometimes a problem but it was all so much more fun that dragging out the box with the artificial tree.

[bacali]

My daughter and her family cute down their own tree every yr...and we still have a real tree...actually 2 real ones.
 ...a nice one in the house and a little "Charlie Brown"  on the deck outside the kitchen's sliding door.
But, do you remember....those pretty bubble lights? They are a rare find now a days.

[Prairie Dawn]

Loved the bubble lights!

We used to "tag"our tree at the tree farm in the fall and go cut it down a few weeks before Christmas.  The tree farm would serve hot cocoa and spiced cider in the barn, you could pet the animals.......so much fun!

[Snowbird]

We use to make our own candy canes using pipe cleaners and nail polish.  We also hung silver bells on the tree but by the time Christmas came they were be about gone.
I still have some of the tree decorations that we had when I was a little girl.  They are antiques now but I use them.  There is one glass Santa Claus and I would cry if it broke.  I always put it up high on the tree so the grandchildren can't reach it.

[ponytail]

...remember your wonderful childhood pets. We were a dog family, and always had one around. Still do to this day!

[Merry Prankster]

Remember "Show and Tell" in elementary school?

[Snowbird]

I remember current events every Monday.  We had to clip an article out of the paper and tell about it.

[Prairie Dawn]

Remember "Show and Tell" in elementary school?

Awwwwww! I loved show and tell day!


Remember giving your mom a big bottle of Jean Nate every Christmas? I actually miss the smell of that!

[ponytail]

Oh that cheap dime store perfume!  Blue Waltz!

Remember Walnettos?

[Snowbird]

Dads got English Leather. 
I wish i still had the dolls I got at Christmas.  They'd be worth something today. 

[Prairie Dawn]

Anyone remember talking Mrs. Beasley dolls?