My Very First Memory
This one is a little tricky for me. I have this memory of my parents going tubing in the snow and my mom getting hurt and my dad helping her into the car. I have had it for years but when I got older and read about it in my mother’s journal I realize that it was a part of the story of the first time that my parents kissed. (which is way, way, before I was born) I think that they must have told me the story when I was small and that I must just have a very active imagination.
I remember the Duplex we used to live in when I was a toddler. I remember my dad coming home from a trip and bringing me alphabet soap in a tin can with a brown lid. This was when we still lived in a Duplex with my great Aunt Becky. I remember her putting me in time out on the stairs once and crying.
I remember moving into our house in Woods Cross and going over to the neighbor’s house (Nicole Larson) to swim in a plastic pool in her backyard while my parents unpacked. I remember the feeling of warm concrete burning the bottoms of my feet as I ran around the corner dragging my towel. I remember hiding in the closets when they brought family in to see the new house and I remember my parents putting shingles back on the roof after they all blew off an few weeks later in a storm. I think most of these memories are from age two or three.
I remember my mom being pregnant with the twins and her belly being so big that I couldn’t lay down next to her on the couch (which was a big deal in my little world). I remember staying with my Grandma Harker while my mother was in the hospital having the twins. The first time I went to see them my brother Jason was still in an incubator (I think he swallowed so fluid during the birth and his lungs needed to recover) I remember putting my hands into the gloves in the sides to touch him and pushing Hilary back down the hall to the nursery with my mom so that she could get some rest.
topics
- My childhood Best Friend.
- Clothing styles when I was 16.
- We went camping....
- A typical Saturday for me.
- at Grandma's House....
- My favorite road trip
- The first time I kissed a boy
- Going to the county fair.
- Christmas as a kid
- My childhood house
- My favorite home as an adult
- When I got engaged..
- Donuts
- What we did all summer.
- If I had a day all to myself.
- Visiting a foreign country
- My hairstyles.
- The first time I sewed...
- Christmas as a mom.
- Reading books to my kids.
- My wedding day.
- Foods I love.
- Foods I hate.
- When I was 12....
- Childhood pet.
- Sports I can play.
- I cried.
- Grandpa.
- 5 things I wish I'd done, but I was too scared to.
- the first time I voted.
- our childhood car.
- I lied.
- A trip to the beach.
- I was in the school play.
- Hidden talents.
- songs I still have memorized.
- the price of food from a grocery store.
- Someone I love passed away.
- My baby was born.
