Childhood Memories

*cereal before school
*cream of wheat on cold mornings
*bottle rockets on the 4th of July
*chasing lightning bugs
*watching thunderstorms on the porch swing
*the quiet of the country
*saturday morning cartoons
*doritos
*count chocula cereal
*smell of fresh cut grass
*smell of the earth after a good rain
*writing stories with Leah
*chicken and dumplings on cold evenings
*ham hocks and beans
*grandpa's homemade southern cooking
*mmm...cornbread and peanut brittle
*flying kites
*Disneyland/world trips
*moving
*traveling
*the crisp feel of sun-baked skin
*porch swings
*ice cream made from snow
*how can I forget Sorghum syrup and sugar cane
*watching TV with my dad
*the donut trailer
*the countless cars we had
*getting up early and waiting for my dad to get home from work
*listening to Elvis Presley, Alabama, Oakridge Boys..
*spending hours with my BF creating a radio station...ya seriously
*being so freakishly, anally neat
*being so completely nerdy..I know, hard to believe. HA!
*90210 and New Kids On The Block...nothing else to be said
*playing barbies for endless hours also with Leah
*being boy crazy...always had a boyfriend
*being so shy I would freak if attention was called on me
*beating this girl up when I was like 9 in front of whole apt. complex...she pissed me off
*loving babies, always babysitting
*the twins...
*church...twice on Sunday...once Wed night
*Aersosmith, Poison, Def Leppard, Cinderella...bands I wasn't allowed to listen to
*endless hours of movie watching...scarier the better
*Tonia and Jenny Babe
 *the NHG...LMAO, LMAO!!! I was so gangsta...I'm glad no one I still talk to knew me in that stage!
*hours and hours of playing outside until dark
*music...there's always been music
*Halloween...Thanksgiving...Christmas....best times of the year
*being a Domenigoni...an Italian
*later on I found out about the Irish side and threw that in there
*my Grandpa Goni calling me Turkey
*the experience with the ouija board
*Light as a feather, stiff as a board
*writing poems with Tonia
*sneaking out after dark
*my cousin Vicki
*spending the night with Paula and Pat
*friday night card games meant AUNT RUBY!!
*family get togethers...I mean big, ones! I'm from the south
*lying in the middle of the streets
*playing ball in the street with neighborhood kids
*being uprooted from Alabama
*my dog Mungo
*playing in the parks after midnite
*Josh..Spencer..Burger...lol
*the dance I never went to, but have pics of
*holy crap...the drug dealers and the hotel...that could have been bad
*my entire Jr. High experience and the friends then...too many to list
*getting suspended from school and running away
*having detention every day for the three years of high school...habitually late...hmmm, not me
*Jerry's lawn
*the move to Gridley
*Mike, Joe, Glenn and all the others
*Beck
*my Billy story...lol...now it's being re-written as my Rob story
*Green Day
*walking every single place I went
*Chelsi and her firebird and Round Table garlic twists
*James...the old crazy man that walked around mumbling and tried to give girls candy
*Richy
*Gary
*I dated a guy named Booger...don't ask
*those plastic gas station roses
*passing notes in class with Brian...we totally got caught one day!
*hearing that Kurt Cobain died...that was a sad day
*sleeping outside in the backyard whenever possible
*always spending the night somewhere or having them at my house
*my fourteenth birthday party
*winning prizes from the state fair every year...ya I bake b*****s!!!
*having part of my story printed in the school newspaper when I was in Journalism
*making gingerbread houses

Reviews

[Chris]

"Hammocks and beans" - Hamhocks?
"Elvis Prestley" - Presley?

I really felt the flow... and understood.

[Ashley Myers]

the things we miss about our childhood.....things were so much simpler then.