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Sick of Winter? Let's do some kid summer memories!!!
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 407619" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I'll always remember how it felt on that first day out of school when I was in the elementary grades! The weekends just weren't the same. I remember going outside barefooted on the first day that we didn't have to go to school, very early in the morning when the dew was still on the grass! It just seemed magical! The sun seemed a little brighter, the air smelled a little sweeter, the colors of the flowers seemed even more vivid. And as a little kid, those days of summer vacation and complete freedom seemed to stretch out endlessly in front of me.</p><p> </p><p>And I remember spending so much time at my grandparents house! My dad was the oldest of six and for as long as I could remember the whole clan would gather at my grandparents big old fashioned 2-story house every Friday night. There were so many cousins, there was always someone to hang out with. They did it all year long but in the summer we'd play outside in the dark till we were ready to drop! We'd catch lightning bugs in jars too, and tadpoles from my grandpa's fish pond, and my older brother and cousin would dug up night crawlers to use as fish bait the next day. Most of my cousins and I now have grandkids of our own now, but get us together and we still talk about those Friday nights at our grandparents house! And in the summer they also got together for barbeques sometimes on Saturday afternoons or Sundays after church. I remember playing in the yard while one of my uncles would be barbequing ribs. We'd be so hungry and it smelled soooo good! And I remember big old wash tubs full of ice, with bottles of beer for the adults and soft drinks for the kids - we'd all get all the orange and grape drinks first! My kids have their own happy childhood memories but it's always made me sad that they never had anything even close to what we had as kids.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 407619, member: 1883"] I'll always remember how it felt on that first day out of school when I was in the elementary grades! The weekends just weren't the same. I remember going outside barefooted on the first day that we didn't have to go to school, very early in the morning when the dew was still on the grass! It just seemed magical! The sun seemed a little brighter, the air smelled a little sweeter, the colors of the flowers seemed even more vivid. And as a little kid, those days of summer vacation and complete freedom seemed to stretch out endlessly in front of me. And I remember spending so much time at my grandparents house! My dad was the oldest of six and for as long as I could remember the whole clan would gather at my grandparents big old fashioned 2-story house every Friday night. There were so many cousins, there was always someone to hang out with. They did it all year long but in the summer we'd play outside in the dark till we were ready to drop! We'd catch lightning bugs in jars too, and tadpoles from my grandpa's fish pond, and my older brother and cousin would dug up night crawlers to use as fish bait the next day. Most of my cousins and I now have grandkids of our own now, but get us together and we still talk about those Friday nights at our grandparents house! And in the summer they also got together for barbeques sometimes on Saturday afternoons or Sundays after church. I remember playing in the yard while one of my uncles would be barbequing ribs. We'd be so hungry and it smelled soooo good! And I remember big old wash tubs full of ice, with bottles of beer for the adults and soft drinks for the kids - we'd all get all the orange and grape drinks first! My kids have their own happy childhood memories but it's always made me sad that they never had anything even close to what we had as kids. [/QUOTE]
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