Best/worst Childhood Memories.

[rrosenberry]

Now that we have Kristy's thread totally off topic on Childhood things.. I thought I'd start this.
What is your favorite childhood memory and your worst?

My best was Christmas Mornings, being an only child ( I admit I was spoiled) and I would get up and sneek out and see everything and run and jump on my mom and dads bed, and we'd go out and open em, I remember on I got a drum set ( kids), all the Holly Hobbie dolls all three in all three sized, a typewriter, cash register, EVERYTHING I wanted.

My worst is 2~ The one was me coming home from my neighbors and my mom was sitting in the yard crying, because our poodle ( Fluffy) got hit and killed on the road, It was the first time I ever saw my Mom cry.
and the second~ Was me watching cartoons on a Sat. morning and I heard my Mom crying behind me, and she then told me that her and my dad were getting a divorce, but how much they loved me,etc.

[teri88]

My best is every summer when the lilacs would bloom. They ran the whole side of our house about 4 feet from the house. So my sister and I would sit on the path worn between the lilacs and the house. It was cool and smelled so wonderful! We would play dolls for hours and hours. to this day the smell of fresh lilacs just makes me smile!
My worst is when I was in 3rd grade and my dog, Skipper got hit by a car. He broke his two front legs. My mother didn't drive and he lay on the side of the street in so much pain. My neighbor saw the woman who hit him and as she was just driving away my neighbor ran after her yelling she had her license number. She finally stopped and drove us to the animal hospital. Skipper wore casts on his two front legs for months but he ended up being fine and lived to about 12 years old. The worst part: the woman who hit him was my teacher at school! It was horrible to be in her classroom and know that she was just going to drive away. She never once even asked how he was!

[hle_625]

My best childhood memory would probably be me and my sisters having garage sales in front of our house with all of our toys! We would put a sign up and just put all of our toys out in the front yard and sell them all day long! My mom used to get so embarrassed but now she just laughs about it!

My worst childhood memory is when my parents got a divorce I was only 5 years old but I still remember EVERYTHING! It was a really tough time my mom raised me and my sister on her own for a few years until she met my stepdad but she did a wonderful job and I love her for it!

[scrappysmom]

my best childhood memory is when my dad got me my first pet it was a collie i named her flicka she was my best friend .she slept with me and waited for me bye the door for me to come home from school .
my worst childhood memory is 15 years later when i had to put my flicks to sleep she was old and wouldnt eat and she just lay and potty on her self and the vet said she was old and her body was shutting down so my grandma went to have her put to sleep while i was in school my parents couldnt bring themselfs to do it so my grandma did it .and the second worst day of my childhood memory .my grandma and all my sisters use to go to church with my grandma and we use to give a old lady a ride to church when my grandma was helping the old lady in her house after church my grandma slipped and fell on her back and broke it and that was a few days before christmas that was not the best christmas ,grandma was laid up for months we ended up having christmas the last part of january.

[bchgirl]

Oh, RR, please come to Va and visit....we so think alike

Good childhood memories...can't limit it to one
The safest, securest feeling ever was hearing my dad snore like a freight train across the hall. Boogeymen, strangers, HA....couldn't get 'cha...dad, the savior, was right across the hall

We used to take car trip vacations....I loved being in the back seat (in the middle...cause big brother already claimed one window, baby brother always got car sick, so he got the other)...mom and dad in the front....it's raining and the rhymetic sound of windshield wipers....swish, swish, swish...yep everything is grand in my 9 year old world

One of my really favorite memories, I wasn't even a child. I was 22 on my wedding day. Now you got dressed in a building seperate from the church....I'm ready, dad comes, walking over.....leans over and tells me...."If you've changed your mind, it's ok, you let me know and we'll keep right on walking".

Another time as a young teen, I was sitting in his lap....my mother told him....soon, she's be somebody else's baby. My dad promptly retorted..."no, she'll always be my baby".

Worse ~
I stole a pair of earrings from Grant's dept store (I was 10), got caught, had to call my mother, came and got me....and she CRIED. Nothing makes you feel worse than making your mother cry. I had never ever seen her cry before. The month long restriction didn't cure my shoplifting...my mother's crying did

Or when my mom's mom had her stroke. She was an only child and I knew how I'd feel if something like that had ever happened to mine and I just couldn't fix it for her No matter what I promised God....

Last thought....we had a dog that we had to get rid of because the stupid kid next door kept teasing Skippy and finally got bit. Chip deserved to get bitten, oh, I balled. I cried for my mom to let me go with her to the ASPCA. Nope. That is the awful part.....then she came home and told me some family took him on the spot. Took years for it to dawn on me....my mother lied, that didn't happen, she just didn't wanna tell me. So I call and ask....mom, what happened when ya took Skippy.....word for word she gave me the same story.

Absolute worse ever...you're not a kid anymore....both my parents are deceased and it sucks

[teri88]

Absolute worse ever...you're not a kid anymore....both my parents are deceased and it sucks


Yeah, that does suck. My dad died when I was 26 and my mom died 4 years ago. It wasn't any easier at 42 than it had been at 26. I miss them every single day.

[Athina]

My happiest childhood memory is when my parents took me to the animal shelter to pick out my first dog. Also when we were at my cottage during the summer and my mom and aunt went out for lunch one day and came home with two puppies from a farm litter (one for me and one for my cousin).

The sadest memory was when my sister was 3 years old (i was 14) she developed allergies to the dogs and we had to give them away to a nice family

But now that I'm living on my own I finally have my two Yorkies (Bella and Ruby)

[rrosenberry]

Oh these are so good, and sad.

Teri, I Love Lilacs,and can see how that would be a great memory.

And Deb,
The car story, I have those two, My dad has pic's of me standing on my head in the back seat on vacation, going out west, I was so tired of being in the car.
And then when we would go places I usually go to take a friend (only child syndrome) well one summer, we go to Sea World, and cause my Dad was so COOL, he decided we MUST take the Corvette,so me and my 12 year old girlfriend are jammed in that back compartment the entire 3 hour trip. I remember every bump, cause they ride so smooth. lol And I remember my Mom bitchin' and moanin' the entire way, because of it.

And your Dad and on your wedding day made me cry! What a great dad story.
And I have a stealing story too~
Stole a pack of " chicklets" from the grocery store, cause Mom gave me the "Look", when I asked for them.. I'll show her, I thought! So, we get home I run straight to my room and shut the door,, RED FLAG, she comes back,, opens the door and I of course, have my mouth full! Well, back to the store we went, and I had to go in and return them and tell them what I did..

[bchgirl]

Originally Posted by teri88

Absolute worse ever...you're not a kid anymore....both my parents are deceased and it sucks


Yeah, that does suck. My dad died when I was 26 and my mom died 4 years ago. It wasn't any easier at 42 than it had been at 26. I miss them every single day.

I HATE IT My mother died Dec 30, 1991, I was 30...she got sick on Dec 23rd....that was the year without a Christmas. Took me a long, long time to put up Christmas decorations and not cry the entire time.

Fast forward to age 44....my father passed away last May. I will tell you a secret....I placed a note in his pocket....inside it said..."I will always be your baby. No one else knows I did that.....

I'll tell ya when my father died, it brought all the emotions from my mother passing right back up to the top....everything you'd thought you'd dealt with....sigh.

Both seem like yesterday and forever at the same time

[rrosenberry]

Originally Posted by bchgirl

I HATE IT My mother died Dec 30, 1991, I was 30...she got sick on Dec 23rd....that was the year without a Christmas. Took me a long, long time to put up Christmas decorations and not cry the entire time.

Fast forward to age 44....my father passed away last May. I will tell you a secret....I placed a note in his pocket....inside it said..."I will always be your baby. No one else knows I did that.....

I'll tell ya when my father died, it brought all the emotions from my mother passing right back up to the top....everything you'd thought you'd dealt with....sigh.

Both seem like yesterday and forever at the same time

Ok~ tears are streaming now!

[bchgirl]

Originally Posted by rrosenberry

Oh these are so good, and sad.

And then when we would go places I usually go to take a friend (only child syndrome)

And I have a stealing story too~
Stole a pack of " chicklets" from the grocery store, cause Mom gave me the "Look", when I asked for them.. I'll show her, I thought! So, we get home I run straight to my room and shut the door,, RED FLAG, she comes back,, opens the door and I of course, have my mouth full! Well, back to the store we went, and I had to go in and return them and tell them what I did..

I have one of those spoiled, only children. I have paid for more other people's children to go on vacation than their own parents have spent.

And your mother made you return the USED gum or just what was left? All I could imagine was you handing over a ball of chewed up gum

Sorry to be the downer of your thread....and yep, some of those stories got me teary yed...but they are GREAT memories

[rrosenberry]

[QUOTE=bchgirl]

And your mother made you return the USED gum or just what was left? All I could imagine was you handing over a ball of chewed up gum

Probably~ I don't recall! Probably the empty box,and then spit the wad of chicklets on the counter.
To this day, I can not see or think of chicklets and not smile.

[hle_625]

Originally Posted by bchgirl

I have one of those spoiled, only children. I have paid for more other people's children to go on vacation than their own parents have spent.

That is funny I am not an only child and we would do the same thing! We would have to take friends when we went on vacation and mom woudl be stuck with like 10 kids out camping!!! Or we would make plans to go spend the night somewhere and tell our friends parents dont worry about it my mom will bring me and pick me up! So mom was always running us all over the place!

[bchgirl]

Originally Posted by rrosenberry

Ok~ tears are streaming now!

Awww, don't cry...but next time your momma gives ya "the look"...you lean over and kiss her

I can still hear my mother's angry voice saying my name....DDE--BRA....drawn out just that way. Obviously she had to use that tone alot

[hle_625]

Another bad memory that I just thought of was last year on my wedding day, my real dad didnt even come My stepdad walked me down the aisle which was the plan from the start but my dad didnt even show his face it really broke my heart and I spent the day crying bc of it but I have come to the conclusioin that its his loss and not mine!