My kids had a bunch of friends over at our house Friday night for a
"drive-in" movie/swimming party.
They are getting older now - 21, 19, 17 & 12, but
we've always had a least one big "invite a bunch of friends over" event
for them every summer since they were very young.
We hang a canvas on the side of our house and use a projector to watch movies.
That led me to think back to my childhood summers, and some of my favorite memories.
Here are a few that I fondly recollect:
1. Catching fireflies and putting them in canning jars.
2. Floating on our tractor-size inner tube tires at the lake.
3. Swinging on the tire swing hanging from our big tree.
(if my cousin tells you a story about me and that swing...don't believe her).
4. Going to Six Flags with my family (every year) and getting a
chocolate ice cream cone at the end of the day before we left.
5. Climbing my favorite tree in our backyard, as high as I could go
and just sitting there, watching my little corner of the world.
and just sitting there, watching my little corner of the world.
6. Sitting in the shade on our wooden swing, snapping
green beans. I didn't like to eat green beans, and I can't say I wanted the job
of snapping them as a child, but the remembrance makes me smile today.
green beans. I didn't like to eat green beans, and I can't say I wanted the job
of snapping them as a child, but the remembrance makes me smile today.
I woke up the Saturday morning to find sleeping bodies
covering my living room floor.
I hope things like that will be on my kids list of special memories when they are older.
What summertime childhood memories put a smile
on your face and in your heart?
on your face and in your heart?
Blessings,
Angie
Sweet post! I love that you are making memories for your kids!
ReplyDeleteWe went to Lake Chelan every August and camped for two weeks...lots of fun! And ice cream cones at Pat and Mike's.
I am a bit older than you, I imagine from you the ages of your children and since mine are all grown and gone, but I share some of the same memories. I shelled peas and butterbeans instead of snapping green beans. Cherish those times with your children. They are gone too quickly.
ReplyDeleteRiding down town in the back of Grandaddy's pick up on the 4th of July to watch the fireworks, the ice cream man, playing outside all day, lightening bugs in jars and home made banana ice cream are just a few of the memories I treasure.
ReplyDeleteHow fun!! You are creating amazing and wonderful memories for them.A friend of ours does the same thing.They watch movies outside there home like that and invite the neighbors over.Let's see my memories.
ReplyDeleteCatching fireflies
Swimming at my Aunts house
Sleep overs at my Grandmothers house
Riding my bike where ever we wanted to because we were not worried about crazy people.
Favorite candy.....bottle caps and wacky waffers.I wish they still sold wacky waffers.
xx
Anne
What a riot! Love the idea of the outdoor movie. I wouldn't even know where to begin to set something like that up, but it sure would be fun!!
ReplyDeletenothing like a pool to bring everyone together. especially on a hot summer day. lots of fun. love the projector idea. too cool.
ReplyDeleteah summer.......
laying on a blanket in the backyard reading a book
vacations in ogunquit maine
my parent's big party of the year that everyone came too, espescially the year with the dixieland band
riding our bikes uptown to the market or to the to the general store to pick out penny candy
the beach, but that's a given as i grew up 1 mile from the beach and then my parents had a hardware store at our beach for a time
i could go on. thanks for the trip down memory lane
You are just taunting me to go public on your blog land with my TRUE story!!! Ha. My memories of summer, a lot from your house, playing in the woods and playhouse, picking strawberries and eating them yum!, having to snap Lima beans and then being made to eat them if we weren't good! Yuk. Also my family camping out and seeing cousins in the Smoky Mountains for 2 weeks at the same campground every year and swimming in the freezing cold mountain river. Still my favorite place on earth! And when I was just at home, laying on a blanket under the tree and reading. And of course, like so many others, catching fireflies. Love, your truthful cousin!
ReplyDeleteYou wouldn't dare! I'll dig out every embarrassing photo I can find of you and do a post about just YOU, so watch it, cuz! :0)
DeleteOh, what fun! I'll dig out some embarrassing photos of BOTH of you. But, seriously, I can confirm the TRUE story ;) Of course, my sis and I share a lot of those special memories. But my favorite flavor at Six Flags was mint chocolate chip in a sugar cone ... yum! And I loved the swing too, but I liked to sit with a fresh tomato from the garden and the salt shaker. Oh, those inner tubes. I would love to be floating in one at Isaac Walton lake right now! The endless summer days - packing lunch for our adventures in our backyard woods, getting eaten alive by mosquitoes, and being FORCED to take naps in the afternoon. If only we knew then how precious those would be to us later in life!
DeleteIt's a miracle - my sister commented on my blog! FAINT!
DeleteI used to be a tree climber too. So high up, knew the tree like I was a monkey. My parents didn't know, the tree was on the boulevard in front of someone else's house! They would of been shocked at how high I climbed.
ReplyDelete~Bliss~