Childhood Moments
I got one of those emails last week saying “copy this, change the answers to your own and send it to friends”.
One of the questions was “favorite childhood memory”. I have a hard time picking a favorite anything because there are lots of things I like but I had erased the previous answers to put my own and completely forgot to answer it. Since then I’ve come up with a few neat memories.
*I played flute in the middle school band. After concerts Dad would take me to 7-Eleven for slurpees.
*As a pre-/adolescent Dad and I would have Dad/Daughter dates. I don’t remember everything we did but one time during a trip to Richmond to visit Mom’s parents, he and I went out by ourselves to see “Ghost Dad” with Bill Cosby. It’s still one of my favorite movies.
*As a very little girl Mom would make up stories to put me to sleep. They usually included my favorite cartoon characters like Care Bears. She read sometimes of course, but those spur-of-the-moment stories are more memorable.
*Before moving to Richmond, my grandparents had a house in Simsbury, Connecticut. During one winter visit, the downhill driveway had been paved so there was a huge pile of snow. My cousin Barrie and I climbed all over it. I think we wanted to get over it instead of just going around.
*Making mud pies
*”Sneaking” around my street with a flashlight looking in other peoples yards and infrequently windows.
*Feeling brave in elementary school because we stood on mounds of hard-packed red dirt by the building walls we pretended, or thought were dead bodies and listening to the walls for ghosts. 
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