We had a huge cook out for dd's last birthday. After, the kids played hide and go seek. We're having a pool party at the end of school. Dd and I were talking about it....then she tells me..."know what, everyone keeps talking about from my birthday party...how much fun that game hide and go seek was". ...like it was something new. These kids have no clue what it means to play outside for hours on end....and still whine when their parents made them come in.

I remember "playing" Barbies on someone front porch...you'd lug all your barbie stuff down to their house, and spend hours setting up Barbie's pad. I remember having a transitter radio....that was my Barbie's console stereo ;)

Just dawned on me...I forgot to teach them....ollie, ollie, in come free for hide and go seek. :rolleyes:

I have to share a funny story. Of course my funny stories always get buried so LISTEN UP.
Went to my great-nephew's birthday party last night. My sister is out of town on business, so I took her son, Shawn to the party. Luke is opening presents and Shawn kept saying "open mine last" (he's 10, but high functioning autistic) Anyway, Luke opens his present, which was a t-ball set. My neice (Lukes' mom) makes a big deal about it and says "Did you go with daddy to pick this out for Luke?" and Shawn announces to the whole crowd: "No it came from my house. I'm too big for it so we gave it to Luke" My other sister and I were on the floor laughing. I said Joan is going to kill her husband! Obviously he forgot about the party and had to be creative! It was soooooooo funny. I forgot how bad they can embarrass you!:D

As long as it wasn't thundering and lightening.....my mother had our butts outside in our bathing suits. :eek:

During a heavy rain...the street and ditch would flood....we'd play in that. Except the Worley kids....nope...they'd catch worms playing in that(their mother's words)....nobody I ever knew caught worms, well, except for earthworms any way. :rolleyes:

We used to play Block hide and go seek. Like 30 kids, you could hide anywhere. sometimes we'd forget to look for some of the kids! I was so excited to have a girl, thought I was having a Barbie buddy. My sister and I played for hours and hours. Megan hated Barbies! She'd say "what do you do with them" and I'd say we change their clothes, and they go fun places, and have dates and shop, and stuff like that. Her answer: WHY???? Well, maybe I'll have a granddaughter some day and she'll play with me. I used to still be sitting in Megan's room playing and she would be off doing something else.

Brutal kid honesty at it's best. :D

One time...my SIL was out of town, and nephew (who was 6) had a birthday party...so my brother goes to the toy store, buys present, and grabs Sesame Street wrapping paper....my nephew has a cow. Sesame Street? You bought Sesame Street??? That's for babies. Brother says look the kid'll never pay any attention...here sign the card. So Nick says his name and then writes....Sorry about the wrapping paper, my dad picked it out. :rolleyes:

Dd didn't hate Barbie, but she and her friends did not play with Barbies like we did. Think I may have told ya....we cleaned out the motherlode Barbie bin.....16 nekkied Barbies and 1 Ken in shorts. Told hubby....Ken's got his harem, dressed just the way he likes them. ;)
I used to re-dress those Barbies....five minutes after....Dd had 'em all nekkied again. Apparently we had nudist Barbie...I just didn't know it.

Loved Barbies...played with them everywhere...best memory was whoever got their Christmas tree put up first, we would all go play barbies under the tree before it got filled with presents....:confused: thinking back not real sure why that was so fun...but it was!
Playing in the rain was fun...we would always have 'straw' races in the water that would run down the sides of the street after a big rain with drinking straws!

My brother would always push Barbies boobies in :confused: Do you think there could have been an underlying problem we didn't know about???

Teri that was funny. Kids, ya never know what they are going to say. We have had our share of "family secrets" revealed.

Come to think of it we would be outside in our bathing suits during the rain. We would have neighborhood campouts. Not with real tents. They would make them out of blankets over the clothes line. We always had Jiffy Pop, and I don't think anyone ever made it the whole night.

How about going to the drive - in in your PJ's?

I was the only girl in the Neighborhood. The boys had GI Joe. Barbie was always the nurse in Vietnam. Then she would be a prisoner of war and tortured and people wonder why I'm nuts.

How the h-ll do you push in Barbie boobs? :eek: They're harder than the ones that come from a plastic surgeon, for pete's sake.

Any chance you were playing with BM's boob smushing brother? My brothers had GI joes. Barbie liked him better than Ken...think it was the tough guy scar...that and his feet could turn completely around. ;)

PS I called GI boyfriend...Mike. My brother's name was Joe, Barbie didn't want a boyfriend called after my brother, for land's sake. ;)

We did that. The only movie I remember seeing with my parents at the drive in....was Bonnie and Clyde....wholesome family entertainment. :rolleyes:

As teen agers we used to go to....only we'd sit on the hood of the car. I saw Saturday Night Fever at the drive in. :) With Mike W.

The last drive- in here did not show family entertainment....not that anyone was watching anyway. ;)

:sidesplt: :sidesplt: :sidesplt: GI Joe was a manly man. My brother and his friends would never let Barbie ride in the Jeep and her car was was always being blown up in the war.

PS Barbie was always wearing an evening gown in the war with her permanent high heel feet and the fancy straight pins for earrings.

That was me, all boys in the Hood, did have one girl but they were always at church, no kidding everyday, so you can imagine how fun she was. Probably why I still, would rather play with the boys.
We had this huge pine tree forest behind my house so we had paths cleared and forts everywhere, that was the coolest. And was just thinking yesterday, surprised I never had a tick... ANYHOW... ( off topic):rolleyes:

But I did do the Barbie thing with gfriends I'd have over, just didn't let the guys know anything bout' that.

Drive ins! Oh man! We used to go and there was a playground and we'd all be there, playing in our pj's. Then we'd lay down in the back of the station wagon and fall asleep before the movie was over. Probably didn't see a whole movie til I was 12! and as teens, we'd pile 20 people in the car because it was $5 a car load! those were great times. Saw "Urban Cowboy" every night for 2 weeks! Kids today don't know what they missed! OMG, I sound like my mother!

Sounds like my summers as a kid too.

I remember the playground.. It was still light when you got to the DI, and all the kids were in their PJ's.

In highschool we would all go to the DI every Friday night. Last movie I saw was the exorcist. I layed down in the back of the car with my hands over my ears, now when I see it I just laugh the whole time. I really miss the Drive-In.

AS I mentioned before when I was 16 first vehichle was a Jeep Honcho pick up.. well it was great for the drive-in used to fill the bed with pillows ( off moms couch when she wasn't home) and blankets and go ask a few " boys" you were into to go with ya, it was great, 4-6 of us all laying in the comfy bed watchin' a movie...or not...:cool:

Yeah, and it was teens like you that got the drive-ins taken away from the rest of us!

Talk about children's brutal honesty.....last night we were at the grocery store shopping for my husbands upcoming fishing trip. My daughter (4 years old) hands the cashier the bag of chips and the cashier says "oh honey, are those for you?" My daughter replies, "Nope, they are for my daddy, he's going fishing and daddy says those fish will smell better than my mommy"!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: I seriously thought I was going to die. I got in the car and called up my husband and asked him what the HE** has he taught my daughter......... it then dawned on me we had a conversation the night before about the smell of my hair (i just got it colored) and he said the fish would smell better than me. SOOOOOO not what I thought my daughter was talking about. Still, I am humiliated.

The darndest things kids say.

lol you get the spit the diet soda on the screen award for today.

Not me, I was a good girl. Actually we still have our drive-in, haven't been there in years, talk about going, but I'm always the one " Its too hot, or too many mosquitos." remember the PIC thing you bought at the concession stand and you lit to keep the bugs away?

Goodnight ladies, I am off the get the roots dyed... Talk to ya later.:wavey: :wavey:

Here's Susan, hair looks fine to me.

:eek: Speaking of cleaning your screen....where is Gina :bee2:? :( Hope everything is OK. Macy's must be having a sale!!

Yeah! Anyhow, where is she??:confused:

In answer to some of the posts.....

Not real sure how he smushed her boobs in 'cause it was that hard plastic?? He was always abusing my toys, we have home movies of him beating up my stuffed animals :(

Loved the drive-in movies....first memory I have is seeing chitty chitty bang bang (much better for family viewing than yours Deb!) with the whole family in the Ford Fairlane that had push buttons to change gears instead of a gearshifter!

Also liked going when we were teens....you either had people laying in the floorboard or in the trunk so you wouldn't have to pay for them!! I saw Saturday Night Fever on a Christmas Eve with Jo Jo, but it wasn't at the drive in, so maybe that little tidbit doesn't fit in here :(

Also, in my hometown they have built a new drive-in with 4 movie screens...sounds pretty neat...I haven't been back home yet, but want to go to the drive in when do get down...but anyway back on subject...they named the 4 screens after 4 old drive-ins that used to be in town...well the last one to close was The Goober drive in....trust me...ya didn't take your family to that one:eek: ...anyhoo...they named one of the screens after The Goober...told my husband...no way am I going to watch a drive in movie with my boys at The Goober...just wouldn't be right!!

Ok so hubby (then bf) caught movies at our The Goober....can't remember the title....but Debbie did something. ;) A lot....Debbie did a lot. :eek:

And she's going to heaven....where are you going, missy? :eek: hellfire and damnation smiley :eek: ;)