I remember our camping trips my parents used to take our family on. We went all out. It was fun and I remember how happy we were. I recall my late brother always taking care of me, never complaining abt having to watch me, or taking me with him. My mom would make these elaborate meals with the little burner stove. I remember laughing at my sister when she and I slept in a tent and she would snore. I can even remember the music playing on the radio. It was the Jackson Five. Whenever I hear their music from that time period it always takes me back to that time.

I remember our camping trips my parents used to take our family on. We went all out. It was fun and I remember how happy we were. I recall my late brother always taking care of me, never complaining abt having to watch me, or taking me with him. My mom would make these elaborate meals with the little burner stove. I remember laughing at my sister when she and I slept in a tent and she would snore. I can even remember the music playing on the radio. It was the Jackson Five. Whenever I hear their music from that time period it always takes me back to that time.

I grew up in the projects, there were a lot of good times. I am going to say in the early and mid 80s, we use to have block parties every late summer. We had break dancing contests, danced to the music that was popular at the time. Just being around people you grew up with was just a blast. I miss those days, but I don't dwell on it.

I grew up in poverty so I would have to say eating candy and Christmas time.

God, I miss so much from childhood. Most especially, when my cousins lived with us(they shared the apartment downstairs with our aunt and uncle) and I'd play with my cousin Janene. She was like a sister to me and we'd have fun swimming in our pool or just going to the park together.

I also miss holidays during childhood. I remember playing in the snow around X-mas and the world just seemed SO huge.


Good times :heart:

I grew up in poverty so I would have to say eating candy and Christmas time.
I'm sorry to hear abt your childhood. Xmas and candy, yeah, those were awesome times at our house. I have such wonderful memories of the holidays.

Probably time spent with my dad. I've got an awesome Daddy... Mom, not so sure of... but my Dad was always the best.

I can't wait to have kids of my own to make memories with! I get giddy thinking of it (of course, when they cry at night i might have a diff. opioion temporarliy)

Probably time spent with my dad. I've got an awesome Daddy... Mom, not so sure of... but my Dad was always the best.

I can't wait to have kids of my own to make memories with! I get giddy thinking of it (of course, when they cry at night i might have a diff. opioion temporarliy)
:lol: :wave: ;)
True. You know, when I grew up and was forced to go to private catholic school I told myself I am never gonna do that to my kids. Guess what??? I did! LOL But they loved it and they had a blast going to private school. Sometimes as a parent you wonder, am I doing things right? But the love and respect you get back is so well worth it. Yeah, the night crying is a pain sometimes, but such a joyous pain. It's a sign that you have a child that's alive!!!

The time I went to my friends 11th birthday party. I was so nervous because that was the first time I had been to her house and I was afraid that she was going to invite this girl I didn't like (who was her best friend the previous year but they had a fight.) But when I got there I found out that it was only me, my best friend Leah, and this girl named Brittany (who later became one of my best friends.) I remember she had this delicious ice cream cake with two candles on it; that was all the candles she had.

We eventually got bored so we decided to take one of her inflatable sleds and use it as a raft to float down the creek behind her house on, which on the side was clearky marked "DO NOT USE AS FLOTATION DEVICE." Well, that didn't work out too well. We ended up tipping over and getting all wet. I can still hear her mother, "You girls get out of that water right now! The last thing I need is three mothers complaining about your pneunomia!"

Later that night we were played truth or dare and did makeovers and all that stuff. I don't know why, but thinking about that day always makes me smile. To this day, I never miss any of her parties.

-My school years (K-4th grade)
-Childhood Christmas (when I still believed in Santa Claus. Christmas was more fun for me when I believed in Santa Claus and I enjoyed my presents a lot more).
-My trips to Disneyland and Disney World
-Playing Barbies with my cousins

playing with my cousins at my uncles house. it was soo fun until we found out my uncle had a drug problem so i couldnt go anymore, but i mean we were all so close and i just miss that

Just being with my friend Leah who used to live right down the street from me. We would do everything like riding around our dead end street on our bikes, playing Barbies, going to our community pool, jumping through the sprinklers, climbing her tree and finding new idiotic ways to swing from the branches, pulling her dog in the wagon, playing Hide and Seek, running over to her house to watch Sailor Moon, walking home from the bus together, talking for hours about Pokemon cards, playing in the lot at the end of our street( there is now a house there) and pretending there were wolves and rattlesnakes in there, jumping up and down to the Spice Girls CDs ( :lol: ) rolling down my hill, builidng forts during the winter, her awesome birthday parties etc etc.

It helped to have someone to be outside all day with away from my house and my parents, now matter how crappy things were at home. I never spent as much time indoors as I do now. There is something beautiful about being a kid. Life just seemed so much easier.

Traveling across the US to visit my grandmother and my other relatives back east...

-Disney World Vacations
-Going down the shore every summer
-Getting my dog
-Going to my grandfather's house every Sunday

well its not so much a childhood memory b/c it was last year but i really miss spending time with my friend who was like a brother to me before he died. i just really wish he could be at my house one more time

going with my family to Six Flags Magic Mountain (back in the dayz it was just Magic Mountain); also going to Disneyland; going to the lake, the beach, barbecues, all that family stuff.

-Going on family vacations
-Watching TV at home and at grandma's and watching Disney movies
-When I lived in my first home, times spent with my neighbor, she was my first friend

having family reunions. so much fun meeting other relatives you only hear abt.
also, having my own room and my own tv and phone. teen life, ahhhhh.

- Growing up as a little kid in the 80's. I miss the 80's. :(
- Playing our NES as a little kid in the 80's/90's. The REAL stuff. Good 'ole 8-bit games.
- Also growing up in the early 90's. 1990, 1991 and the first part of 1992 were all very awesome years for me.
- Living next door to my grandparents til the mid-90's.
- The family Christmases when my parents were still married. We'd have Christmas Eve at our house and go to our neighbor [maternal] grandparents' house later that day. We would have a HUGE feast and then open presents afterwards. The next day, on Christmas, we would go to our paternal grandparents' house for the day. I think the last Christmas we did this was in 1993 or 1994, because my parents split up in the early spring of 1995. The Christmas of 1996 was the last time we had a huge feast at my maternal grandparents' house - my maternal grandpa passed away three weeks later, in January 1997. We haven't had a feast for dinner since - we just order out for pizza on Christmas Eve. :( I feel so bad for my younger cousins on my mom's side- they barely remember the feasts we used to have.
- Family movie nights. OMG...I miss movie nights like crazy.
- Watching Fraiser and Seinfeld with my older sis every night, when our Fox station used to run them at 10 and 10:30pm, respectively.
- 7th grade (1997-1998) and 8th grade (1998-1999) in general. Everybody else I know HATED junior high, but not me. :D I had an awesome teacher for 8th grade English, and we hit it off pretty well. I miss her sooooo much...I moved away and have not seen her in two years.
- Sophomore (2000-2001) and junior years (2001-2002) in high school. What can I say? I had a bitchin' time both years. :rock:
- Hanging out with my cousin Mel. Monday was the six-year anniversary of her passing. September is never a very easy time for me, with 9/11 and her anniversary following immediately the next day. :( Time has healed a lot of the pain, but it's never very easy.

There are sooooooooooooo many more, but I will stop here.

My favorite childhood memories were going on family vacations. I also
enjoyed elementary school. I can remember ever year when school let out
during those years,My parents surprised me and my big brother with gifts
as rewards if we passed to the next grade level. My mom gave that idea
to my aunt,and she and my uncle did the same thing with their eldest daughter and son.As we got older our younger siblings joined in.
Also being a kid in the 1980's. It was the best decade ever!

Spending time hanging out with the kids in my old neighborhood. The girl across the street and I were always out playing, or having sleepovers. And hanging out with the kids in our old trailer park. My street was full of kids around my age.

Stupid things like seeing an Easy Bake Oven on TV or whatever will bring back memories. I'll be all like, "I had one of those!"

Spending time hanging out with the kids in my old neighborhood. The girl across the street and I were always out playing, or having sleepovers. And hanging out with the kids in our old trailer park. My street was full of kids around my age.

Stupid things like seeing an Easy Bake Oven on TV or whatever will bring back memories. I'll be all like, "I had one of those!"
Yeah, I remember there were alot of kids on our street, and at that time (70's) there was hardly any traffic going down our street, it was very quiet and still. We would play kickball, baseball, we would build ramps and jump with our bikes. Our bikes had those banana seats and the orange flag that was real high behind that seat. It was supposed to be there for visiblity to drivers, but it was more of a cool thing to have on your bike. I remember us girls would lay in the street as the guys rode their bikes up on the ramp and "fly" right over us!!! That was some scary s**t, what the hell were we thinking??? :crazy:

I miss my nan and Grandad who died when I was younger. We had some great times. :)

I miss being a kid sometimes. No bills, no worries, no cooking LOL LOL LOL