“When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.” (Sam Ewing)
Hello, my lovely friends!
I’m back! I need this much needed time off to relax and refresh myself. So, it’s Friday and that means fun fact day. This week we’re talking about things I did in the summer as a kid. Let me know things that you did during the summer.
1. School let out the first week of June. Our summer was from the first week of June all the way until the last week of August. We always went back to school that last week and it was always exciting to have a day off for Labor Day the following week.
2. My dad brought a kitchen table home from the University and put it in the basement. On hot days we would have dinner in the basement on the table (our basement was finished). As a kid it was fun eating dinner in a different place that was nice an cool. The bad part was carrying everything up and down the stairs, but with four of us we made it work.
3. My mom would sign us up for swimming classes at the community pool. The classes were free and we would do our class in the morning, go across the street to the grade school I went to and they had free afternoon lunch, and then we would go back to the pool and swim in the afternoon. Sometimes my dad would pick us up after work, but most days we walked the mile home. We did this practically every day except on the weekends. On the weekends they had evening swimming with your family and we would go to that.
4. We collected cans and would cash them in two times a year, the summer and Christmas. In the summer we would use the cash to buy fireworks. I loved getting the variety bags that had sparkles, black cats, and my favorite joke one that you could put in cigarettes and they would explode when lit. My dad used to smoke back then. I loved putting them in and waiting to see them explode. Once he was watching a horror movie and it went off. LOL
5. Once summer hit we barley stayed home because we were outside playing, riding bikes, or swimming at the pool. In the evening we would stay on our block. There were lots of kids on our block and we would play kick ball, hide-n-seek, freeze or whatever made up game we came up with. They was never a fear of neighbors getting mad at us playing or yelling. Most of the neighbors all came out and sat at one of the driveways and talked to each other.
6. In the middle of August my dad would come home with my grandparent’s camper and it meant vacation time. My mom would clean it up and we would go shopping for food and snacks. This is when we would be able to get snacks that we normally don’t. YAY for Doritos! We would leave in the middle of the night. My sister and I would try to sleep inside the camper on the top bed, but we just stared out the window. Okay, my sister slept, but night owl me was up and watching everything.
Thank you so much for stopping by today!
I wish you a good morning, afternoon or evening wherever you are.
Talk Soon Adios…
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