Memories

Ok I've been feeling  nostalgic  ever since  I've started reading my old dairies so I   thought it'd be fun to go back in time  and  reminisce about  a few  favorite  moments from the past .Some  are from the distant past  and others are more recent .Hope you don't mind me rambling😇 Anyway I've  done  it in a survey type format so you can join in if you want to 😍

Favorite childhood memory

Living  in Wyoming.I remember so much that I enjoyed ( boy do  I wish I was writing a diary back then!) I loved  the wide open spaces we had for a  back yard ,playing with the baby  praire dogs, and going to Yellowstone,the Tetons,and Lost Creek.I remember Kara riding her little pink bike  in the parking lot of our town house and Luke hating the lasagna from Swans  cause he said he didn't like the  noodles 😅 But then I  was no better cause  Swans had these enchiladas and  I always liked them until I  saw they had raisins in the ingredients and  bam  suddenly  I decided I didn't like them anymore 😬Then there were the  sleepovers at Tara and Jamies house, the  burger place  behind us (with the worlds best burgers or at least they were to a  8 year me 😉)and that pizza place in Saratoga .All I  can remember is the ton of oooy gooy cheese they always put on.mmmmm😋Oh and lets not forget  riding in the back of that green station wagon!

Now I can't even remember if this happened in WY or not but  it was somewhere around that time frame.Anyways  we were driving somewhere and I  looked behind us and there was a guy in a car eating an apple and he kept pointing at us .Well later we realized that  mom's purse was sitting on the back  bumper and we'd forgotten  all about it.Obviously he'd  trying to alert us to the fact but at the time I  just thought he was a nut .

Something silly

Putting glue on my  face  and pulling it off  once it dried ( I  remember it was in  Kansas so I was  probably around 7-8 ) 

Earliest memory

some strange man knocking on the  door when dad was at work  .I  remember mom calling dad on the phone to ask if he'd sent anyone over.I guess I just remember it because it was a bit scary so the memory  stuck with me

Favorite Game 

hmmm not sure but I do remember loving "quiet waters still waters" a game we learned from the Baptist church in Wy and "sharky sharky" which was  something we little people made up 

Favorite house

think I'd say the ranch house we had  but I  loved the woods at the house we moved to when we came back from Michigan   it was like a private park complete with a darling little brook.

Favorite recipe

 I loved mom's swiss steak and  kidney bean casserole.Mine never turned out as good 😏 I also loved a certain emon cake I  had it at a church poluck in MO . Been looking for a  similar recipe ever since.Have tried a few here and there but nothing spectacular

What to be when you grew up

well I remember in Wyoming I wanted to be a truck driver with  a purple simi

Favorite book 

Richard Scarrys" I  am a bunny".

Favorite toy

Probably my  big white  teddy bear considering I kept it into adulthood .But otherwise I'd say a pen grandpa gave me in Wyoming .I remember it  was one of those multi color ones  with what  seems to my mind  anyway was 12 different colors but probably not  that many.Everything seems bigger when you're little.There's another   toy I remember really liking  though I have no idea what it's called.It was some type of  revoling toy .Can't  even remember if it was ours or I just played with it at a friends house.But  I remember putting little dolls on it and it would  slowly twirl around.I  searched e-bay one time trying to see if anything would come up and I did  found something similar but now I  can't remember the name😬

Scary moment

Hearing the floor boards creek when I  was home alone.This is an old house and I'm slowly getting used to the borads creeking under my feet but this  happened  when I  was in the bathroom which scared me something awful cause no one was  supposed to be out there .I  really thought someone had gotten in the house and was creeping about.I took a can of shaving cream with me  and went searching  the rooms upstairs  but didn't find anything .I've since realized that when you walk across the hall the boards getted pushed  into  place but are too weak to stay put so they pop back up later creating this creaking sound even though no one is walking on them on that moment  👀

Something that happened to you that seems almost unbelievable

I was walking back from work one afternoon and saw a 20 dollar bill laying by the side of the road .I didn't pick it thinking  maybe someone had  lost it .But lo and behind it was still there  the  very  next day so I  picked it up and took it home.👏