My mind is drifting today! Call it age, call it the sedatives they gave me yesterday while undergoing a wisdom tooth extraction, I dont know but do any of you remember the out door skating rinks with wood floors, the times with no cell phone? When we kids were allowed to walk to school or play in the rain or ride our bikes all across town!? I remember walking to the bank in Adel and rollerskating on the parking lot! Frog hunting under your aunts house and eating dirt on saltine crackers! Having a fire under a grape arbor with a frying pan and our moms let us fry potatoes!?! Wow those were the days! Oh and when you watched grandpa milk the goat and spray it in your face or ALL the family fishing trips to the ocean! Or the days when we didnt know there was anything wrong with Halloween and we could go with a pack of the neighborhood kids, walking around trick or treating into the night! Mama at home decorating for a scary spend the night party with your friends and then tell us ghost stories that would amaze you! When we had no electronics with games or phones or computers to tie us down or keep us in doors! When your big sister would show you how to make a house out of a big box and decorate the walks, make paper furniture and use paper dolls! When you slept outside in a tent for your birthday! When you made things like door stoppers out of the sears catalogue, then walk the neighborhood and sell them for .50! Or your Aunt would make divinity and we would knock on doors and sell them for .10 each! When we would draw a big square in the yard and two of us would come out fighting! When we walked to our swimming lessons at the CITY POOL or sat on the wooden ice cream churn as Daddy turned the handle to make us home made ice cream! Playing cars in the dirt yard with roads and tunnels and bridges all made by us! Or pulling home made taffy to get it ready to eat! Tea cakes and selling lemonade by the road! Catching fire flies and jump roping or swinging on our sack swing! Christmas at Grannys and you could choose what you wanted for breakfast there! When Mom had to call you in at dusk dark to come eat supper after a long day of playing! When the greatest being was God and you were always faithful to the House of God! When absolutely nothing would take our attention from Him! When life was simple, a lot slower, meaningful, safe and so happy!
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:41:20 +0000
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