I've been thinking about the past, specifically, my growing up years and remembering the good stuff.
I wonder how many of you can relate to some of these things:
Running down the fresh made silage pile (before it got covered with black plastic and tires)
Using leftover black plastic as a home made "slip n slide"
Bringing meals out to the field with mom and siblings to eat together (usually a casserole) as dad was too busy to stop and come home to eat and he would get tired of cold sandwiches
Crocheted capes - worn with pride to Sunday morning church (because grandma made them)
Wearing clothes that matched my siblings (and my mother made those)
Playing in the mud puddles until my boots got stuck - falling over in said mud puddle
Making forts: in trees, in hay bales, in bushes (behind Doug and Lisa Dykstra's house - I think that was the PCGS grounds actually) on playgrounds, under bleachers, under tables (with blankets) etc, etc.
Sunday coffee time after morning church at alternating grandma's houses and having Sunday dinners at grandma's. Fighting over who got to sit next to grandma Dyk at afternoon church because she gave out pink peppermints.
FIELD DAY! WOOHOO! (especially in the lower grades - was SO FUN!)
Giant tractor tire inner tubes at the river
Grilled hot dog and hamburgers by the river after swimming all afternoon on those giant inner tubes!
S'mores
Grade school Christmas program - NEW dress
Having a Sunday coat (only for wearing to church and other special occasions)
The once a month HOT lunch! :)
Sleepovers at Janelle's, walking the creek bed and shooting bats in the barn with a bb gun
Mowing the lawn and singing as loud as I could
The Platte swimming pool concession stand (which they closed) but it was great while it lasted - I could get big Laffy Taffy, not that tiny stuff they have now; going to the pool and getting candy was a big deal when I was little
Armour Music Contest - especially the duet with Joel - that was memorable!
Pen Pals - two in particular, that were both met at music functions (go figure!)
Booms Drive In, as a 3rd grader I could eat a footlong with everything, fries, and a chocolate shake (tried once as an adult, couldn't do it) in the teen years it was a pizza burger, fries and diet coke :)
Bowling on Thanksgiving at the Platte Lanes with my cousins
The end of the year rolling skating party
Ah, sweet memories! I'll continue this list at another time....
and the greatest of these is love
Bottled pop in Black Cherry flavor at the Bowling alley. Santa's visits at Christmas time. Bombardment (sp?) in the gym and the pure pain that followed after being hit. A net full of foam that we would take turns jumping into. Plays on the stage. Endless hours of basketball too. Visiting Liewens' hardware store and Dykstra's dept. store, the drugstore and more. Friend visits nearly every Sunday afternoon - between services. The old church balcony, sitting with friends in the side wings on Sunday nights. Johnny Lyon snoring out loud in church. White gloves and shawls that grandma made, little patent leather purses and shoes and always a homemade dress. People standing in the grass after church, drinking coffee and having cookies. Walking around and around and around the church with friends talking and giggling. Red light, green light games on the steps in back. "Bopping" the streets on Sunday nights. Sale barn visits with my daddy. Dusty dirt roads. Storms. The sound of the wind, gusting, howling as I laid in my bed. The sound of cattle, cats greeting me when I stepped outside. Gardening in the summer. Fishing with a bamboo pole and salamanders. Ahhh Gina, thanks for the memories, we should get together and write Little House on the Prairie books! :) God is SO good!
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