Graphic made for me by Anna (Anna's Anomalies).
I got an email today that jarred my memory about how we kids (me, my sister, and brother) spent our time before the days of internet and computers, before video games, cell phones, CD's, DVD's, voicemail, and email.
During our earlier years, we lived in the house with my Nana J, my Dad's mother. We lived in one side and she lived in the other. She owned a daycare center. We went to her daycare, which was located next to her house and after she closed it at 5:00, we would go home with her and she would proceed to give us either a coke in the small green glass bottles or a Dr. Pepper in the glass bottle and she would have either Hershey's Bars or kisses, 5th Avenue, Mr. Goodbar, or orange slices to share with us. We would then go into her bedroom where her TV was and she would watch Lawrence Welk. We watched it with her faithfully on her black and white TV (did we have any choice?). She had a living room, but we were never allowed in there as that was reserved for "special company." I do remember being allowed in there twice a year when Cinderella or The Wizard of Oz would be shown on TV and we were allowed to watch it on the "good" black and white TV in her living room. My siblings and I would be dressed in our pajamas laying on the floor on our stomachs propped up on our elbows to watch it. That was a real treat for us.
Some evenings we would play out in her yard playing games like hide and seek, Red Light, Ring around the Rosie, and Mother May I. Because of her daycare, we had a swing set, a slide, and a sandbox that we spent countless hours playing on.
Sometimes we spent time with my Nana A. We had friends in her neighborhood and with them, we played other games like Hot Potato, Duck Duck Goose, Red Rover, London Bridge, Hop Scotch, and Jump Rope.
We had one game where we would chant:
"Ain't no boogers out tonight
Grandpa killed 'em all last night."
We would hide and the person we had chosen to be the booger would hunt us and chase us. We had a certain place that was base and we had to make it safely back to base. If the booger caught us, then we immediately became the booger and the game would start over.
If I could make a choice now of having the childhood with the endless summer days and hot summer nights with friends until well past dark playing games, riding bikes, and doing things like chasing lightening bugs and putting them in a mason jar in which we had poked holes in the lid or the childhood my children have had with the video games, color TV, computers, CD's and DVD's, and cell phones, I believe I would still choose the way it was when life was simple and friends were many.
Have a blessed weekend!~
Susan
9 comments:
My grandmother was a L. W. fan. When I see PBS still airs it sometimes and I laugh and say "wonderful, wonderful, wonderful" LOL I was more of a HEE-HAW girl growing up! LOL
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Until I was 8, we loved upstairs form my grandparents. Each night we would go down for snacks...chips, bugles, fiddle faddle, sometimes there would be dip for hte chips etc.
becky
I'm with you Susan! I would pick the way things "were' back then too! We went outside...we played....we had friends! We got our exercise just by being outside jumping rope, running, riding our bikes, skateboarding (yes we had skateboards in the 60's...lol). While I never had the opportunity to catch lightening bugs in a jar (California doesn't have them), we used to put pill bugs in a jar and see who could find the most! lol
I remember playing hide n seek which to me is kind of like playing your booger game. Only the person caught was considered 'it' instead of 'booger.'
Good times those were..... Good time!
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jackie
Loved your entry, hon. That is why I love memory walks so much. Nothing like them, epecially in times of stress. Enjoyed sharing your memories. I pray you are of a quieter mind today. It's been rough, I know.
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Hi Susan!
Thank you for adding me to your journal since it's now private. Dang! What else can happen!!!
Yes, I remember all those times....except the Duck Duck Goose, I heard that somewhere else the other day too! Oh, but you left out playing in the summer rain! We'd run and dance around in the soft warm summer rains. That was so much fun ..... and we'd just laugh and laugh. Now when it rains we all (even the kids) run inside quick! Where's the childhood joy gone? Oh, I know...it's mess up our hair! lol You brought back a lot of memories!
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amen to that. life was soo much more simpler than, but of such a better quality
betty
hello friend great entry i would have the same thing too and i remember the wizerd of oz wathching was such a treat for me too sorry i have not been around i have been so sick so sorry you are going throught tought times still you are in my prayers my friend Godbless kelley
Good Entry.....I remember those times well.....I think we were 'It' instead of your
'booger'! LOL And when we touched 'base', i think we yelled, "HOME-FREE-ALL"!
and you better be touching that base too! I recall making my skate board in my grandpa's work shop, which was in the cellar [we called it a cellar, cause that's
where the coal bin was too] with my girl friend; we used one roller skate a peice,
and two peices of broards, then we painted them, with peace signs and flowers!
We couldn't wait to show them off outside.....ahhhh....the simple things in life!
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great entry, I used to do play all those games. Loved it. We played ghost in the graveyard too at night. We had a great time. We were never instead, not even for a second.
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