10 Things I Miss

1.Riding on the handles of my brother’s bike on the way to school each morning. 2.Playing poker and betting with cheese nips as my siblings, cousins and I watched Bozo the clown or the Price is Right. 3.Making homemade biscuits with my grandmother, who always allowed me to make a small one just for myself. 4.My grandmother waving good-bye at the window each time we left. 5.Enjoying summer lunches that always consisted of PB&J or Banana sandwiches with my grandmother and uncle.

6. Camping out in a tent with my brother in the back yard, only to be scared the whole time because of the sound of the crickets & frogs. 7. Catching tadpoles in the edge of the pond with my bare hands and bringing them home to put in the bathroom sink until my parents got home. (They didn’t enjoy this half as much as me!) 8. Tying fishing line to beetle bugs and watching them fly as you hold the line. 9. Sneaking out with the babysitter’s husband every Friday morning to get a honey bun and Mt. Dew from the “Honey Bun Store” 10. Running down the Ice Cream truck with all the other children, that came around the park where my dad was playing softball.

1. Family reunions with all my cousins. 2. Week-long sleepovers with my best friend at her grandparent's house. 3. Going "outside" and not being asked where, as long as I made it back by the next mealtime. 4. Walking to the store after the mail. 5. Trips to the county library every couple of weeks. 6. Grandmother's house where all the aunts gathered to gossip and snap beans, shell peas, etc. You knew you were getting half-grown when they handed you a pan of whatever when you walked in. 7. Going to the field with Daddy and riding the tractor. 8. Going to school with my mother the week before school actually started to help her get her first-grade classroom ready. 9. VBS at church during the day, with cookies and kool-aid under the trees in the church-yard. 10. Sunday afternoon drives that ended at the Dairy Queen. and 11. (because I can't leave it out) Digging potatoes and knowing that you did your part.

1. sitting on my grandfather's lap and helping him "smoke" his cigar 2.handing tobacco leaves to grandma to tie on a stick 3.roller bat baseball with my brother and sister 4.drinking a green glass bottle of sprite on my aunt's porch 5.walking down town with mom every saturday to go to roses five and dime 6.listening to the phone signal for fires, then looking on the list to see where they were at 7.throwing an old army blanket over the clothes line and camping underneath 8.all my cousins living so close that we could play all the time 9.my first school dance in 5th grade 10.my dad always buying my birthday cake from davis bakery in durham even though grandma was going to make me one too!

bill, you realize that these lists could go on and on and on. it probably would be easier to list what you wanted to froget from childhood. Ha Ha!

20 Things I Miss Most About My Childhood in WV

1. Hearing the train whistle at night while lying in bed with the windows open

2. My daddy bringing me bb bat suckers from the little store on his way home from work every day

3. Hearing the rooster crow across the creek and listening to my Mother telling my son “Doodle Do, Mamaw loves you”, to the rhythm of the rooster’s crow.

4. Sitting on the company store steps and pouring p-nuts in my orange pop

5. Going to Big Momma’s house in VA on Christmas Day and seeing all my cousins, aunts & uncles and playing in her beauty shop

6. My only brother who passed away young due to diabetes

7. Decorating the entire house at Christmas and waiting for the little unincorporated town I lived in to start talking about the house on the hill

8. Soft fallin snow and the babbling brook with the smell of smoke from chimneys

9. Smelling my Mom’s Christmas ham when she cooked it during the night.

10. Elementary school Christmas

1. My aunt's homemade potato dumplings 2. Sleeping over at my aunt's house, lying under the thick warm homemade quilts, and hearing the passing train whistle 3. Sitting on the porch on a summer night and singing "Catch a Falling Star" 4. Tarzan movies on Sunday afternoons -- but only the Johnny Weismuller ones! 5. Paper dolls 6. Martin's Drive-in hamburgers 7. Sitting on top of the ice cream freezer to keep it steady while my brother turned the crank, then eating the yummy results 8. The aroma (and taste!) of the yeasty homemade rolls in McKnight school cafeteria 9. Waking up on a school morning and finding that school has been canceled due to a thick blanket of overnight snowfall 10. Making indoor tents out of blankets and chairs.

1. Plowing the garden with my Grandpa. 2. Gathering the eggs from the chicken coop. 3. Picking fresh strawberries with my mom while eating them! 4. Christmas when the whole family was together. 5. Riding 4 wheelers til dark with neighborhood friends. 6. That yellow slip n slide covered with dish detergent to make it more slippery. 7. Camping trips with my mom,dad,and brother. 8. My 2 dalmations--best dogs in the world! 9. Grandma's fried chicken every Sunday. 10. My energy--where did it go!!!

1. riding my bicycle in the summertime until it got dark & my mom hunted me down to come home.

2. beanie weenie

3. my granny clara & grandma dot.. they both died when i was in 6th grade

4. picnicing at kerr lake

5. summers at springdale pool

6. clark st. elementary school.. miss those creaky wooden floors & how mrs. leake's heels sounded walking across them.

7. my brother & cousin catching crawfish in the creek below my house.

8. old belk dept store in downtown henderson. i loved how the floor sounded when the adults walked around.

9. good shows like "good times", "the jefferson's", "happy days", little house on the prairie, chips, the love boat..... played hookie many times to watch happy days... :)

10. most of all... i miss arguing with my big brother :)

Livermush? Ugh!

10 Things I Miss About My Childhood in Princeton (Johnston Co.)

10. Playing rollerblade basketball with my siblings

9. Taking trips to PA and the Outer Banks with my grandparents

8. Softball camp and learning how to slide (on tarps covered with dishwashing detergent)

7. Not being allowed to talk to boys on the phone (those were the days)

6. The first (and only) homerun I hit on the largest softball field in town

5. Fighting with my best friend because she kissed my brother goodnight

4. Driving my sister's car when my parents took my keys away

3. Eating red hots or homemade veggie soup at my babysitter's house

2. Playing volleyball at family cookouts (my grandmother always caught the ball and threw it over the net)

1. Living in Princeton...I live about an hour away now, but boy do I miss the small town!

1. Picking blueberries in the cow pasture with my grandmother 2. Holding my baby girl (either one) on my shoulder as they slept 3. Playing in the creek, building dams, catching crayfish 4. Exploring my other grandparent's barns and cellars 5. Walking from the campground through the dunes to the beach at Salter Path (both campground & dunes are gone) 6. Climbing higher in the trees than anybody else, ever 7. Sitting on my inlaws porch cracking & eating pecans from their tree with my daughter 8.Wading through the salt marsh at Carrot Island, finding sand dollars, welks, horseshoe crabs, and needle fish 9. Listening to ACC tournament on a transistor radio during Boy Scout camping trips 10. Putting pennies on the railroad track & seeing whose would get flattened the most

1. My father 2. My grandparents 3. Riding horses with my cousins at my grandparents on Sunday afternoons. Afterwards, grandma would always have us ice cream cones ready. 4. Grandma's chocolate and biscuits 5. The book mobile coming to town 6. Family vacations 7. Playing outside all day with friends while parents never worried. 8. Little bottles of Coke 9. Everyone dressing up on Easter Sunday for church 10. The innocence and wonderment of childhood

I miss penny candy. I miss making a fort with couch cushions. I miss walking to school. Pine State deliveries on Saturday morning. The Ice Cream truck after dinner. Going to Sinbad movies on Saturday afternoon. Peanuts in a glass coke bottle. Catching lightning bugs and putting in a jar to watch as I fell asleep. Sleeping with the windows open and not being afraid. Not knowing my day who was killed in Vietnam in May 65 and I was born in March 65.

1. Playing outside all summer long. 2. Trips to White Lake with my cousins when we came to visit my grandparents in Roseboro,NC from Pennsylvania(before my mom talked my dad into moving here!) 3. Playing in the dirt and making "frog houses" and mud pies. 4. Sliding across my grandma's cement front porch after a rainstorm(it's a wonder I didn't kill myself or break something) 5. Vacations we took as a family. 6. Playing hopscotch in my grandma's yard-it was all sand! 7. The "community" cup/dipper and the pump on my grandma's back porch. 8. Fly-killing contests. 9. Homemade chicken pastry. 10.Christmas eve/Christmas day.

Bill, I think you got a tough job ahead of you! Reading these makes me think of many many more things I miss!!! Sleepovers with my bestfriend or a birthday sleepover at our other friends(about 6-8 girls!) Telling scary stories when it got dark outside! Sitting on the front porch in Erwin and listening to all the widow women who gathered on my Mom's porch(she was a widow then too) and learning ALOT about life from them. Probably more than Mom wanted me to!!!lol Walking to school in the fall when the weather cooled off and the leaves changed color. Christmas parties as a teenager at all my friend's houses - we would have two each week for Christmas and New Years. My first kiss - thought he would be the ONE - didnt happen that way at all!!! Going to Fayetteville as a teenager on a date to the old Dinos Pizza Palace and watching the guy in the window toss the pizza crust and smile and wink at me and make my boyfriend mad!!!lol Everything, just everything!!!

1. Having my grandfather rub his facial beard against my face. 2. Getting together with family EVERY Sunday afternoon at my Grandparent's house because there was nowhere else to go (Blue Law). 3. Spending a night with my Dad at the volunteer Fire Department and eating ice cream. 4. Riding my bike all over the county and not having to worry about someone hurting me or my friends. 5. Buying 3 submarine sandwiches for $1.00 at Kmart on Six Forks Road on our YEARLY trip to Raleigh. 6. Hunting for and collecting dried cicada insect skins from trees. 7. Building a lemonade stand with my 1st cousin & thinking we would strike it rich. 8. Taking turns sitting on the hand cranked ice cream maker. 9. Eating a home grown watermelon straight from the garden, no matter how hot the melon was. 10. Going with my Mom & Dad every Friday night to buy groceries and getting a grape drink and candy bar to enjoy while watching cartoons on Saturday. Thanks Bill for bringing these memories back.

1. Being the baby in the family #12 and sitting in my Dad's lap as he pulled out a bag of penny candy. 2. Watching my Dad cut a watermelon in half and starting on the sides and eating the part with seeds first and saving the heart for last. That's when I'd find my to his lap and enjoy the best part! 3. Walking to church on Sunday morning. 4.Picking cherries from a neighbors tree that was covered in the sheet that was on the plant bed protecting the tobacco plants to keep the birds away. 5. Easter egg hunts in the tall oat field. 6. Trying to milk the cow after going in the pasture to bring her in late in the cool of the evening.

my 10 things list from rural Nash County 1. weekly Sunday dinners with everyone, Aunts,Uncles,Cousins 2. stealing apples from 'Aunt Hattie', I was allowed any off the ground, but the ones on the tree..God forbid I get caught 3. 'chaney ball' (Chinaberry tree)fights, boy they stung! 4.snow days, making snow cream and eating icicles from the eaves 5.riding bicycles, evening with chains that slipped off, we rode them every where 6.going to the 'Rock Side',in Middlesex on Saturday nights for a hamburger with cheese 7.popping firecrackers,cherry bombs and m80's, every Christmas eve 8. Vacation Bible School at Union Hope Baptist Church, more kids came than our regular Sunday School crowd. We got Pepsi,Coke,or Tru-Aid Orange and a pack of 'nabs' for snack 9.Going to the 5 County fair in Zebulon 10.barnin' 'backer, from sun up 'til we got finished! 5 barns a day, 5 days a week, 'Aunt Bertha's' lunches were a Sunday spread every day! Thanks for reminding me,I'm blessed

I grew up on a lake in Orlando, Florida. My mom and step-dad still live in the house I grew up in.

1. Catching Lightning bugs on a summer’s evening

2. In the summer, spending all day, every day, at the lake swimming and skiing

3. Vanilla ice cream cones dunked in chocolate coating at the DQ

4. Slumber parties

5. Fresh picked oranges, tangerines and grapefruit from the trees in our yard

6. Friday night fish fries for the whole neighborhood

7. My parents driving my sister and I around to look at the christmas lights

8. Christmas eve at the marina with santa claus (he always had a gift for every kid there)

9. Summer vacations at St George Island in the Gulf of Mexico (before the bridge was built)

10. My mom’s potato soup.

*sigh*

1. Summer days spent laying on my grandmother's porch swing off Hillsboro St. listening to the NC State belltower.

2. Bringing in my grandmother's Pine State ice cream and milk off her front porch (this was mid-80's).

3. The smell and sounds of the NC State fair

4. NC State vs. Carolina basketball rivalry (when the men played at Reynold's)

5. The thanksgiving parade in Raleigh..I miss it almost every year now that work gets in the way!

6. Field Day during elementary school- it was actually all day! AB Combs great gators!!!

7. Sailing with my family. The sounds the ropes make against the mast are still one of my favorite sounds.

8. Playing until it got dark outside.

9. Bob Barker on the Price Is Right

10. Tom Suiter's Football Friday..I'm only 29 but it's hard to stay up to watch it!!!!

1 When students respected teachers and feared principals. 2. When nearly everyone you knew went to church on Sunday and did nothing the rest of the day. 3. When kids played outside all day and most of the evening. 4. When adults sat on the porch and watched the kids play. 5. Not locking the door of our house growing up because we didn't feel the need. 6. Riding bikes without helmets and feeling the wind in my hair flying down the hill. 7. Watching tv and listening to the radio and never hearing bad language. 8. Being able to eat whatever I wanted without worrying about it clogging my arteries or gaining weight. 9. Staying up late on Saturday night and watching "SHOCK THEATRE" 10. My family all together for Christmas.

1.Beach trips with my family 2.Going deep sea fishing with my dad 3.Visiting my aunt's farm in Charlotte on Sundays to feed the chickens and pick vegetables from the garden. She would always have cakes and pies sitting around that she baked in her wood stove. 4.My mother's fried chicken and milk gravy over rice for Sunday lunch (with green beans and homemade biscuits, of course). 5.Playing outside until dark with the other kids in the neighborhood. (We are all still in touch.) 6.My father's cooking on the weekends. 7.Riding the bus to the dime store with my friends. 8.Going to the park down the street and skating. Later in the afternoon we would cross the bridge we constructed to hide in the woods and guard the skating rink! Our neighbor used to let us use his old ration belts and we would stuff food in there to have while we were "on duty" at the park. 9. Christmas traditions 10.Family Thanksgivings

I miss 1. drinking icy cold coca cola from a glass bottle and eating a tootsie roll soft from the Louisiana heat 2. listening to The Beatles "She Loves You" on a hand held transistor radio while walking barefoot down the sidewalk 3. Riding bikes to the corner store barefoot AND without a helmet 4.climbing Mimosa trees and smelling the blossoms 5. Watching Ed Sullivan on the black and white tv, the only one in the house 6.Making root beer floats at Grandmama's house and laughing when I drank it and the foam went on my nose 7. My Granddaddy imitating Red Skelton and rolling his own cigarettes (with Prince Albert-in a can!) 8. Playing games on the playground at school and being chased by that boy with funny ears who tried to kiss all the firts grade girls! 9. The slam of the screen door when we'd go out to play, you know, the one that made our parents cringe? 10. Drinking "coffee" (Milk and sugar with a smidgen of coffee) with my Daddy early in the morning before anyone else was up but us

Sorry, all of mine have to be in Texas, because that is where I grew up.

1. Baseball games at Colt Stadium, precursor to the Astrodome,home of the Houston Colt 45s. 2. Baseball games at the Astrodome ... had its own appeal. 3. Camping with my dad in the Hill Country west of San Antonio. Hot! 4. My grandmother's house at Christmas 5. Fishing with my dad at the Texas City Dike (alas, blown away by Hurricane Ike) 6. My 9th birthday, celebrated while Hurricane Carla rattled the windows and tore shingles off the roof. 7. Our first family vacation out across the West Texas and Carlsbad Caverns. 8. I didn't have uncles on my mother's side, but her two first cousins filled that bill ... really miss spending time with cousins Jimmy and Tommy (go back to #1 and #2 :-) 9. My dad traveled overseas a lot ... I miss the joy of his return and finding out what he brought us. 10. Christmas morning at home ... and our "stockings" ... my dad's old army socks.

I have an honorable mention too ... Christmas Tree Forts! Seems silly now, but they really filled in the days after Christmas and into the new year. Seemed really imporant and exciting at the time ... we'd have veritable wars over these cast-offs. Somebody would ultimately end up with a backyard full of old trees. I bet their parents were really mad. My mom definitely said NO to my pleadings to play host to one.

Was that just a Houston thing or did other kids used to do that too?

1. getting engaged in the first grade! tolsen brought his mom's wedding ring to school and gave it to me on the playground.

2. learning how to drive on Grandaddy's dirt road

3. smell of tobacco curing in the barns

4. Mom's homemade biscuits( now she makes yeast rolls)

5. the old 45 records

6. going to Europe for half the price of what it costs today

7. my dad driving across the tobacco fields in his VW beetle selling insurance to the farmers!

8. going to myrtle beach and hanging out at the pavillion! (remmeber those days??)

9. playing softball in the front yard with my 6 boy cousins who lived down the road

10. eating apples right off the trees and turning the hand crank of the wooden ice cream maker while someone sat on the top!!

1. My father taking me outside under a sky spangled with stars and teaching me the stories behind the constellations. 2. The magic of Christmas Eve Candlelight Services in my home church. 3. Waving sparklers in a figure eight on the Fourth of July. 4. Homemade ice cream straight out of the freezer. 5. Having the most beautiful girl in the whole town as my babysitter. 6. Driving in a convoy to the regional basketball tournament where I just knew our small town team would win. 7. Pulling off the lit end of a firefly and placing it on my finger like a diamond ring. 8. Dancing with Kathy Suter on New Years Eve to Chicago’s “Colour My World” and falling in love for the first time. 9. Playing in the Turkey Bowl every Thanksgiving with my brothers come rain, snow, or shine. 10. Pretending to be asleep each evening, and I never was, when Dad would come into my room, kiss my forehead, and whisper, “Schlafe mit Gott” (Sleep with God). It felt so safe and warm.

1.The smell of Old Spice and tobacco(my grandfather). 2.Summer vacation 3.Swinging on a tire swing. 4.The sound of playing cards in my bicycle tire spokes. 5.The excitement of back to school shopping. 6.Getting together every Sunday with extended family members for sunday lunch and playing baseball afterwards. 7.Exploring the woods with my father and grandfather. 8.Being in the kitchen with my mother. 9.Feeling safe just knowing Mama and Daddy were down the hall. 10.Saturday family night with board games and popcorn.

Here's another one (the first ten really got me thinking!) I miss the smell of newly mimeographed school papers! The teacher would give them to the first person in each row to pass back but everyone took a slow deep whiff of that purple ink before handing them back. Boy you hated to be the last in the row when "all the smell was gone!"

1. Walking into my grandmother's house next door and smelling her cooking her delicious homemade applesauce. 2. Being on the patio in our backyard and seeing my daddy come out of the basement on his HOMEMADE STILTS!!!!! 3. Playing on our zip line that our daddy made from the hickory nut tree on the patio to the back of the yard (which seemed huge when we were young). 4. Playing with my Monkey Doodle (yes, that's where MDOODLE comes from) that my grandmother made for me -- a Monkey Doodle is a sock monkey 5. Getting daddy to make our '55 Plymouth sedan "into a stationwagon" by putting a platform over the backseat for our day trips to Atlantic Beach and Fort Macon so we could spread out blankets and sleep on the way home at night 6. Rushing to the window of our house on St. Mary's Street (the part that becomes Lassiter Mill Road) way before it was widened and paved nicely to watch the firetruck go down the street. There was always one fireman standing on the back (continued)

1. Family who have passed on. 2. The way things were before that tradgic day in September 3. All things with tobacco, curing, toping, setting, 4. When you could leave your doors unlock and not worry 5. Snow in the winter 6. Drinks served in bottles 7. Freshmen and Sophomore year of college (WCU) 8. Homemade ice cream. 9. Friends from High School 10. MONEY, cause as grow it goes away to.

6. (continued) ...the fireman riding on the back of the truck, bouncing up and down because the pavement was so bad. He had to hang on for dear life!!! 7. Watching for the Pine State milkman to come to make his deliveries because he would give us crushed ice to cool off with on hot summer days. 8. Getting my grandmother to take us to ride on the "bumpy road" to see her best friend. That bumpy road was Glen Eden long before it was paved. 9. Piling in my father's coca cola sign that he used as a sled during the day of a big snow and having him pull us down the hill by our house to make a track, then going back out at night when it froze over and riding the sled at top speed!! 10. Sitting in my grandmother's kitchen drinking Dr. Pepper out of her "pee wee" glasses -- they had been little jelly jars!! My brother and sister and I used to fight over those glasses.

I grew up in Williamston (Martin County) so here are mine: 1. Having sleepovers with my friends. 2. Eating "tickles" & tuna fish on the front porch in the summer 3. Girl Scouts 4. Going to my grandparents house in Baltimore with all my cousins (about 30 of us) & having Thanksgiving 1 day & Christmas the next with my Pop Pop dressed up as Santa 5. Playing Barbies at my best friends house. 6. Sitting on the front porch at night & catching lightening bugs. 7. Sitting up in the projector room with my dad to watch a movie for free (He ran the projector for the local theater on Sunday afternoons so I got in free with him to see a lot of movies!!) 8. Sitting at the corner by myself in my little folding chair eating a pop tart at 7:00 a.m. to wait for my dad to walk home from the firestation after working a 24 hr. shift 9. Good TV shows that the family could watch 10. Riding the bus by myself to New Bern to spend a week with my grandmother on the Trent River in the summer.

1.Going to grandma's house and helping her pick green beans in the garden 2.Drinking a coca-cola and eating a moon pie at my uncle's country store 3.My great grandmother's big stray hat 4.Swimming in the pool at night,although the deer flies were bad at times 5.fishing in the creek with my dad and brother 6.the smell of grass after it's been cut 7.Christmas eve at Grandma's 8.Going for a drive in the country on Sundays 9.Making a wish by blowing the dandelions 10.Walking with my dogs through the woods and exploring old tobacco barns

1. Captain Kangeroo and Uncle Paul 2. Riding my cousin's Pinto pony, a big barrel racer 3. Designing houses in the dirt beside Gramma's house 4. Rollabat and Snake in the gutter 5. Staying at the beach in a house instead of a condo 6. Watermelon on Sunday afternoon 7. Mama's noodle-covered, satin-lined cigar box jewelry boxes 8. Mom's cooking 9. Clean clothes just showing up, didn't notice then, do now 10.My Dad

1. My mother 2. Catching the first lightening bugs of the season 3. Playing kickball in my backyard with all the kids every night after dinner 4. Everyone's curfew- be home when the street lights come on. 5. Watching the corn grow in the field behind our house and taking lemonade out to the farmer when he harvested it. 6.Playing hide and seek in the same field- (don't tell the farmer) 7. Playing in the sprinkler on hot summer afternoons 8. Friday night TV shows- The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family. 9. A much slower pace in life- summers were so carefree. 10. Real homemade icecream

Thanks for a great trip down memory lane Bill!

I grew up in Texas. Thanks for bringing baack the memories, Bill 1. Chocolate malts at the Rexall drugstore counter 2. Riding my bike for hours on a summer day 3. Playing cards all day with my best friend Donna during summer vacation 4. Mama’s Sunday dinners: roast beef, yellow rice and gravy ... mmmmmm 5. Sunday night with “The Wonderful World of Walt Disney” and Pillsbury Orange Danish...I know it sounds weird, but we did it every week. 6. Swinging from the clothesline in the back yard 7. Marching in the band during halftime of Friday night football games 8. Daddy turning the ice cream freezer with Mama’s frozen buttermilk (don’t knock it ‘til you’ve tried it!) 9. Doing cartwheels until I was dizzy 10. Playing in the sprinkler when it’s 100 degrees outside

Grew up in Cary. I miss, 1. Walking to the 7/11 regularly to buy candy, 2. helping a family friend on the farm he managed in western NC, 3. being awakened in the wee hours of the morning to watch celestial events, 4. playing in the ocean with my father and sister, 5. someone setting fire to the cornfields behind our neighborhood, 6. jumping our bikes over a dirt mound in the woods at the end of our street, 7. seeing extended family at Christmas 8. staying at the old family homestead in Garland NC and hearing old family stories passed down from generation to generation, 9. Playing rec. league softball during the summer, 10. my great-aunt's bread and butter pickles

Well, my memories are so similar to the others, but as my mother lay dying, I crawled up in her hospital bed with her and recounted all these with her! Somehow, I just knew she could hear me! 1. Remember when you tried to teach me to cut up a chicken? I still can't Mama! 2. Also, making biscuits! HA! They look like "catheads" (as you would say), so I just gave up! 3. Remembering studying my Sunday School lesson on Saturday night! (I had to or else!) 4. Watching the Jim Thorton program at midnight after we came home from our best friend's house on Christmas Eve! 5.Putting peanuts in my Pepsi Cola 6. Running through the water hose then eating banana popsicles!7. Walking to the country store down the road and knowing I'd be safe! 8. Waking up on Christmas Eve long enough to see the ball on Santa's hat! 9. Watching Peter Pan, thinking about cherry pie and jumping off the end off Mama's bed( and I was OK!)10. Knowing your spirit touches me every time I smell White Linen, by Estee Lauder!

dpm819, do you remember the smell of school paste? i could see why some kids ate it.

does anyone remember in the late 60's , the serice sations were giving out paper replicas of one of the space ships (lunar module i think) that you could fold and insert tabs to have your own paper space ship model? and you could buy a paper kite and string for less than 50 cents at the same place or one of those balsam wood, rubber band operated airplanes?

My childhood - spent on Long Island, NY

1. Riding bikes with no destination in mind 2. Swimming all day until our fingers looked like prunes 3. Plaing in puddles after the rain and getting soaked! 4. The summers I spent at the local public pool catching little kids off the diving board and drooling at the lifeguards 5. Our church carnival 6. Just hanging out - reading good books for pleasure and NOT for school 7. Good Movies, Funny Movies, Scary Movies (I became the family movie critic!) 8. Just being a KID 9. Once I got my driver's license, I would visit my maternal grandparents and hang out with them - they would tell me stories and my grandmother would cook up some REALLY good Italian food for me! I miss them both to this day. 10. I miss not having to pay a mortgage, maintain and house and car and NOT having a job with all this responsibility!!!!

1. Catching Fire Flies in Mason jars with holes punched in the lid. 2. Playing wiffleball with a stuffed newspaper bat until midnight in the neighbor's back yard. 3. Feeling like summer lasted forever! 4. Sitting down with the Sears catalog and picking out what I wanted Santa Claus to bring ...in OCTOBER! 5. The excitement I felt when sitting in elementary school in Pennsylvania and seeing the snow starting to fall! 6. How time appeared to stop between Thanksgiving and Christmas...Christmas EVER come! 7. Looking FORWARD to birthdays! 8. Holding hands with the girl from Math class! 9. Sleepovers at my Grandparents house. 10. My ability to eat as much as I wanted and still be a skinny stick!

Ahh the memories!

Seems like we all miss the same things; things from a simpler time and place. Growing up in the 1940s and '50s in Oxford was like Happy Days personified! Playing outside all day and in the evening, riding bikes or skating all over town, Sunday dinners, walking to school, ice cream from a hand-cranked freezer, lilac bushes and gardenia bushes in bloom, going to Hall's drugstore for a fountain coke and a pack of Nabs, visiting with neighbors on the front porch. Too many good things to list.

These wonderful memories! Thanks! Let's keep this open another day.

Glad someone mentioned the Uncle Paul show. Also walking to downtown Cary (without parents) to get 5-cent candy or (for special occasions) a hot dog at Asheworth's. That was back when there was only one stop light (and one flashing light) in town.

I grew up in Raleigh & the 10 things I miss about my childhood are: 1.Grandma & ALL her cooking 2.Fishing with Grandpa (he'd let me smoke his pipe) 3.Making a dam in the creek behind my best friend's house & swimming in it all summer 4.Staying out playing hide-n-seek with my friends almost all night long while all the parents had coffee & gossiped on the porch of our house 5.Catching lightning bugs & putting them in old pickle or mayonaisse jars that I poked holes in the top of & watching them blink in my room all night long (I'd let them go the next am) 6.Going to Salter Path every summer to my Uncle's place & going fishing from the pier & deep sea fishing with him & all my cousins 7. Family reunions held at Umstead Park with all the family 8.Making our own girls only fort in the woods because our older brothers had one for themselves & we weren't allowed in it 9. Drive in movies at the Forest drive in 10.Halloweens watching Spook Spectacular on channel 5 eating candy Ü

* Riding bikes around the neighborhood until it was so dark we had to come in * Wondering through the creek at the bottom of the hill catching crayfish * Playing in the houses under construction in our neighborhood * Not having a Care in the World * Spending hours on the phone with my girlfriends not talking about anything * using the hairbrush as a microphone and singing my heart out to Grease soundtrack * Marching Band competitions and football games * The feeling that we owned the world and could do anything * Not having a care in the world. * My daddy

1) Mountain road trips with my grandparents, especially up Mitchell and along the Grandfather (before the viaduct was built); 2) The smell and warmth of a woodburning stove on a cool winter evening; 3) Watching the USA Cartoon Express when I got home from school; 4) Chocolate shakes from Charlie's drug store in Mt. Holly; 5) Adventures out in the woods to the 'Big Rock' near grandma's house; 6) All the cool bridges we crossed coming home to visit from Louisiana; 7) Fishing trips to Long Beach; 8) Making sure we made it to Roan Mountain every June to see the rhododendrons in bloom; 8) My grandpa's stories; 9) The family reunion potluck every July 4th by the river in Enola; and 10) Mother's day picnics with the grandparents and all my cousins, aunts, and uncles at Price Park off the Parkway.

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