Childhood Memories on Hot Summer Nights
Guest Post Alert! Featuring Marydon Ford from http://blushingroseboutique.blogspot.com/!
Oh, the days of feather pillow fights upon our platform beds, how we’d giggle for hours with feathers flying. Mother used to take the bed frames outside in the heat of the summer, throw the old feather mattress upon it & we’d ‘camp out’. All the neighbor kids would come over, sometimes 6 to the bed. We’d tell horror stories, look at the stars, jabbering until sleep captured each of us in the wee hours of the morn. There was always one of the kids that would tell creepy stories and then scare us by screaming in the middle of the night.
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I treasure those moments & precious memories, of a life that the children of today will never know … simplicity.
Do you have any wonderful childhood memories you’d like to share?
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That sounds so much better than camping out in a tent Marydon. Great memory...
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ReplyDeleteI remember our neighborhood buzzing all summer. There were so many kids that lived on our blog (one Dr's house had 11 and another had 8!). I think I counted once and we had over 30 kids who could all play together.
We'd play Kick the Can, Pom Pom Pullaway and Starlight/Starbright and had a ball.
Last night I watched the fireflies outside our door and was transported back to being an 8 year old in our old neighborhood...our yard lit up by their blinking. It was wonderful.
I hope you'll share another memory like this with my readers on Monday of next week for Memory Lane Monday. I'm sure they'd love to read all about your childhood reminiscing. I know I would!
Happy Days, my friend.
xoxo
Donna
Such a sweet memory! Camping out under the stars telling stories must have been so much fun Marydon.
ReplyDeleteMy memories of me with my friends making mud pies. That might be why I love to cook now. It all started with mud pies. lol :-)
Dee
You have some wonderful memories. It all sounds like so much fun! I loved that we could stay out later, playing under the street lamps. When the porch lights went on, we had to go in, tired, but happy!!
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Jane
Oh how fun!!! the first memory that popped up when you talked of your childhood memories are that we played 'Ghosts in the Graveyard' and catching lightening bugs...now that was a lot of fun!
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Hi Marydon. when I was little I remember my gran dressing me all pretty for church and telling me to keep my dress clean! I did but wondered down to the river, took my dress and everything off, hung it in a tree and jumped in the mud! When found shortly before the church service, I pleaded..covered in mud from top to toe..." But gran, look my dress is clean"
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Summertime! We bloggers help make it a delight. What wonderful memories you have, my friend. Made me smile and I needed that!
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Mona
That was so cool - I had never heard of that - and never did it. That must have been so much fun!
ReplyDeleteSounds like comfy camping! I remember catching so many fireflies. I recently got the grandies bug boxes so taht they could do some firefly catching. Linda
ReplyDeleteWhat a sweet story. We were so much more innocent back then, weren't we? I think kids today grow up way too fast.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite summer memory is running in the fields across from the house and catching lightening bugs and putting them in mason jars....then keeping them in the bedroom for the night. xo Diana
I love childhood memories like that:-) We could never sleep outside except in a tent otherwise the mosquitoes and black flies would have eaten us alive! lol One of my fondest memories was when dad would put the sprinkler on for us kids to run through on a hot day. We would end up with all the neighbourhood kids joining us:-) Mom would bring out lemonade and tons of towels!! xoxo
ReplyDeleteI miss the days of going camping with my family! Those were the days! :):):):):):):):):):):):):):)
ReplyDeleteSummertime is the best time to be a kid. What a sweet story.
ReplyDeleteWe did what almost every kid has done and that is pitch a tent in the backyard. It was always great fun and made for great memories.
I could so see you out there camping under the stars on a feather bed! I wish I had done that when I was a kid! But we slept in a camper when we camped and when I got married, DH and I roughed it many years in a tent with the boys. It was just more fun that way. We used to sleep several to a bed on hot summer nights on vacation. Great way to really get to know your cousins. Screened windows and a big metal fan blowing over us...giggles until we heard "You girls go to sleep!" LOL- ususally the boys would try to sneak out and come to our window to try to scare us.
ReplyDeleteWe played hard and slept sound- after staying up half of the night.
Pillow fights and jumping on the bed- dancing around in our baby dolls.
I always thought those times were so special because I had my own room and slept alone all the time.
3 in a twin bed was just a good time!
Hugs- Tete
What a lovely blog post! One of my favorite memories is what PEA said...playing in the water sprinkler in our back yard!...and oh...drive-in movies! My brother and I would be in the back seat, already dressed in our pj's and fall asleep before the movie ended! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteWell that certainly is an exciting summertime memory. Parents could safely allow children more freedom then. There are things that my parents allowed me to do that I didn't allow my children and would be horrified to allow my grands. Maybe I should lighten up. Fun story!
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