ToyfulSweetartMavMOM's blog: "Words Matter A Great Deal To Me"

Before the Internet or the AIM, Before playstation 2 or X-BOX Even before the 5 hours of homework you put off every night... Way back... I'm talkin' bout hide and go seek at dusk/ Red light, Green light/ Playing kickball & dodgeball until your porch light came on/ Mother May I?/ Red Rover / Running through the sprinkler/ Happy Meals / Getting the privilege to sit in the front seat of the car or the BIG table for Christmas dinner! Wait... Watchin' Saturday Morning cartoons The Pink Panther/ The Road Runner/ Deputy Dawg Or what about Get Smart, Mission Impossible, The Outer Limits, ARE YOU AFFRAID OF THE DARK!? What about how GREAT Christmas morning was... Your first day of school every year, Bedtime Prayers and Goodnight Kisses. Climbing trees, Getting an ice cream off the ice cream truck, A million mosquito bites from playing outside at dusk and not worrying about getting sick because of them. Sticky fingers, Jumpin' down the steps, Jumpin' on the bed, Pillow fights Runnin' till you were out of breath, Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt. Being tired from playin' all day. Your first crush... Rainy days at school meant playing "Heads up 7-Up" in the classroom Remember that? I'm not finished yet... Kool-Aid was the drink of the summer Giving your friends a ride on your handlebars and putting playing cards in your spokes to sound cool! Wearing your new shoes on the first day of school Class Field Trips. When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there. When getting high was swinging on the swingset. When $5 seemed like a million, and another dollar a Miracle. When your parents took you to McDonalds and you were sooo cool. When Toys r Us overuled the "mall". I want to go back to the time when... Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe", Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "do over!". "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest. Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "monopoly", Catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening. When It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends. Being old, referred to anyone over 20. The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties. Nobody was prettier than Mom, Nobody was cooler than Dad, Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better, and it was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big people" rides at the amusement park. Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare" Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles. If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED!!! Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown up" life... I double dog dare you!