Some of my fondest memories from childhood are of me, my oldest brother and our cousins running around our grandparents’ house on Sundays. We always sat in the living room during family meals and ate on card tables while the adults sat at the big table in the dining room. (We still talk about Mark and his ham and olives…that’s all he would eat.) 🙂 Since they lived on a farm, there was always plenty to do. We jumped on the hay bales after crawling through the electric fence (once I got shocked-ouch), went exploring the fields, stepping over cow patties to get to the creek at the back of the property, we shot BB guns at aluminum cans and played on the swing set they got for us (which is now a big pile of rusted junk). We also had Easter Egg hunts outside and played hide and seek. I think the big propane tank outside was base. If it was too cold to go outside we would play endless rounds of LIFE and there was another card game that I remember playing a lot with them, but I can’t remember the name of it to save my life. (It had a bell that you would ding and cards that had picture of various grains on it.) Anyways, I feel so lucky that I got to share those memories with my cousins and I am even happier that my own children have cousins that live close so that they, too, can remember Sunday dinners, birthdays, Christmases, Easters, etc. playing with their cousins. Even though there aren’t any cow patties or BB guns involved, they can make their own memories.
Cousins
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
I’ve been thinking about those hay bales lately- I don’t know why?! It’s nice to think back to times when life had no worries. Maybe that’s why I’ve been thinking about it…as an escape from my currently hectic life…to a time when life was just more leisurely 🙂
BTW- the game was “Pit”- I think I still have it in my basement 🙂
Oh, and don’t forget the notorious bridge that we worked on everytime but never completed! 🙂
I thought about writing about the bridge, but then couldn’t remember if we really ever did try to build a bridge or if I was just making it up…it must be because we never actually finished the bridge. Now that you have confirmed that we did work on a bridge…we worked really hard on that darn thing. Why is it that we never got it finished? 🙂
No, it wasn’t a figment of your imagination… It was always a work-in-progress and I think we liked it that way! 🙂 We sure had fun working on it!