Originally Posted By Kala I do and my nephews think I need medication, but they still laugh! Chickendumpling now I have that song on my mind and can't shake it!
Originally Posted By chickendumpling <---would pretend the decorative posts on our porch were horses and my best friend (and next door neighbor) Brian and I would ride through adventures all day.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling Would tip the hammock stand like a see-saw with one of us on the high end and pretend we were on a pirate ship sailing the Seven Seas.
Originally Posted By tapdancemom put on plays and talent shows in the backyard. babysat for 50 cents an hour.
Originally Posted By LPFan22 Spent most of my free time roller skating, reading or playing the piano.
Originally Posted By sherylann59 Had an imaginary horse. Saturday was the only day that cartoons were on. Cleaned house every Sunday with my mom, and ENJOYED it! Yikes. Spent the night with my grandparents every Friday night. Watched "Dallas" every week. Wanted to marry Bobby Ewing. Was extremely accident prone. Used ride on toys or couch cushions to ride down the stairs. OUCH! Pretended that my bicycle was a motor cycle and I was a Pink Lady. "Grease" reference. Was in way too much of a hurry to grow up!!!!
Originally Posted By RidgebackLuver Lived for our DL trips, since that's the only cool thing we ever really could afford to do!
Originally Posted By pennyring wore six shooters and stayed up late watching Roy Rogers with my Dad. built forts out of sheets and couch cushions. bought Converse before it was cool for girls to wear them. loved my Strawberry Shortcake dollhouse and My Little Pony. thought Sea Princess was the most beautiful bike *ever* made -- and she was MINE! wanted to be Miss America. made up plays and acted them out on our marionette stage. adopted a Cabbage Patch Kid, took her with me everywhere and was horrified when my brother-in-law wanted to stick her in the trunk while we went into a restaurant! Sorry, no. Calantha Allison is a family member!
Originally Posted By smedley <bought Converse before it was cool for girls to wear them.> Ditto! More so as I'm in the UK lol.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <Used to buy candy with only one or two cents< Ah -- age indicator here -- so did I
Originally Posted By MomofPrincess -thought there was nothing softer or warmer in the world than my mother's hands -loved walking with my mom to the local dime store to have a hot dog at the lunch counter and buy some new piano sheet music -always faked that I was "allergic" to the "smell" of fabric (which, in turn, caused me to have headaches) whenever she tortured me by going into Cloth World, LOL -thought Mr. Rogers would make the ideal husband someday -swore I would be just like my friend Cindy's mom when I grew up, always volunteering in the classroom and being the cool "room mother," etc. (Truth be told, I later realized she only had time for all that because they ate out almost every night and her house was always a mess!) -thought there was nothing cooler than listening to "HEART OF GLASS" w/my friend Cindy on her new bedroom stereo (5th grade) -loved to rollerskate -thought hawaiian slip-on Vans were the epitome of "cool" -loved living across the street from a family with 7 well-liked kids who were even more fun than The Brady Bunch
Originally Posted By califtink used to love walking in the "woods" around our house, especially after it rained, and I would make up little songs and sing them to myself.
