Tag: playing
group name: childhoodstories
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January 11, 2008 11:00 AM EST --
Reading Ellie M.'s photo essay My childhood play house was a barn reminded me of times spent as a child visiting a friends farm.
My friend Karen had brothers and sisters and along . . . more
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October 21, 2006 11:12 PM EDT --
When I was little I spent a lot of time with my maternal grandmother. She lived about 15 minutes away and she served as my baby sitter because my parents couldn't afford to pay one. When I was too . . . more
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August 02, 2007 10:50 PM EDT --
Playing Doctor
Did any of us really play doctor when we were children? I don't mean with the little black doctor's bag and the pretend needles and vials of fake medicine. I mean just the old fashioned . . . more
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May 03, 2008 11:48 PM EDT --
Last week we all went to the park, for a few hours.
Zander coming down the slide.
Xaiver coming down the slide. I love . . . more
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April 18, 2006 10:35 AM EDT --
When I was 10 years old my mom moved us to the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, to an avenue named Wayne. My first day there a vertically challenged 13 year old with the worst perm I have ever seen, said . . . more
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May 24, 2006 08:28 PM EDT --
lillie - princess sea - had an amazing day today. such fun! when she wakes up, one of the first things out of her mouth is "can we play puppet show?" i swear we play puppet show for hours . . . more
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April 28, 2006 10:34 PM EDT --
I have been nostalgic for the past few months...thinking about old friends, old boyfriends, Chicago the city I grew up in. I don't want to call it a mid-life crisis (I'm not that old!)
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April 28, 2006 03:42 PM EDT --
I can't see your face.. so long ago, yet yesterday. If I close my eyes I can smell you… feel your hands on me rough, young, inexperienced, but willing to learn along with me. Just me and you . . . more
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September 22, 2006 08:19 PM EDT --
I mowed the front lawn today. The part under our Maple tree. There were leaves on the ground. They were red and orange and yellow. Not the most magnificent colors, but the foliage is only just getting . . . more
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October 03, 2006 06:49 PM EDT --
I guess watching "The wizard of Oz " did not help my daughter, who just turned 10, to sleep tonight.
Germany , just over the border, got hit by a Tornado and had roof tops flying in the wind . . . more
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June 17, 2006 10:30 PM EDT --
summer is perfect for little kids. time is always free, but with summer, time seems to expand.
remember when you got out of school, and RAN home, and just jumped for joy?? THAT . . . more
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May 05, 2006 11:21 PM EDT --
I talked to my cousin Davina yesterday. That in itself wouldn't be Earth shaking other than I haven't talked to her since Katrina. She lives down on the gulf in Louisiana and we didn't . . . more
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June 08, 2007 02:17 PM EDT --
One day from today I will have been married for 29 years to the same woman.
Yesterday my wife had to go to the doctor. The nurse there asked her if she was a movie star! My wife is beautiful, . . . more
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March 30, 2007 12:19 AM EST --
In 1983 we lived up on Snowden Road near White Salmon Washington, We had been living there for about three year and it was a pretty nice place to live. The reason we moved is because I became severly . . . more
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May 28, 2007 12:07 PM EDT --
Last week, while at Grandpa's, my oldest discovered a new friend. First let me say that Macie does not like insects or creepy crawlers of any kind and never has. When she was 2 1/2 . . . more
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October 25, 2007 02:45 AM EDT --
When I Was A Child...
When I was a child there were certain rules involving household behavior that were absolutes. They were ironclad, written in stone, unbendable and unbreakable.
No running . . . more
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July 26, 2007 01:34 AM EDT --
Miss Tabby
By Jennine Donier @ June 8,1984
Into this world a ball of soft fur was born
nestled next to mother, who was big and warm
She licked our fur until it was like silk
We wiggled and . . . more
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May 30, 2007 10:33 AM EDT --
The Memorial Day Weekend started a day early for my girls. Since my oldest was off of school on Friday, we went to visit Grandpa. Along with finding their cute little inchworm friend, . . . more
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June 03, 2006 08:49 PM EDT --
lillie's imagination has been working overtime the last week. ever since she got a princess jasmine outfit in her box of dress-up clothes, she notifies me when princess sea is about to become princess . . . more
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June 06, 2007 05:39 PM EDT --
Why is it that everything we like is bad and everything we hate is good? I'm specifically talking about chocolate ice cream, my favorite food of choice!
When I was 11 years old my Mom left my . . . more
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