Guest guest Posted April 30, 2004 Report Share Posted April 30, 2004 What is your earliest memory from your childhood? I was about 3 years old and was climing on top of an old shed we had and fell down on the hood of a Desota car. My brother had put it back behind the shed so it wouldn't get bent up while he was working on the car. Guess he chose the wrong place for it. LOL I got a big deep cut across my left eyebrow and still have a scar there today. Love & Hugs, ( MWDW@... )#TX 1743, ville Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 30, 2004 Report Share Posted April 30, 2004 I can actually remember seeing my daddy at the other side of a room holding his hands out to me with my mother behind him smiling and my oldest brother hanging on to my hands. I think they wanted me to show daddy that I can walk. BarbieHamilton & Feeser wrote: What is your earliest memory from your childhood?EMAIL TEXAS-STYLE!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 30, 2004 Report Share Posted April 30, 2004 I lived in a 2 story small frame home in Colorado. The furnace was in the basement and we had grates in the floors that opened to the floor below. My earliest memory is being small enough to fit through one of them when I lifted the grate off and falling through from my second floor bedroom to the dining room below. Before I fell through, I had stuck my head through and was yammering at my older sisters and brother who were yelling at me to pull my head back through and put the grate back on before I fell.... I think that may have been a point of turnaround for me as I became a good listener after that (and I am STILL a very good listener)!Hamilton & Feeser wrote: What is your earliest memory from your childhood?EMAIL TEXAS-STYLE!! "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming-- WOW--What a Ride!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 30, 2004 Report Share Posted April 30, 2004 What is your earliest memory from your childhood? I'm always amazed at how many people can recall details from VERY early in their childhood. My earliest memories are scattered, with the earliest one being at four and a half years of age. No memories before that. We were living in Fort Dix, New Jersey and I was in my kindergarten class one day when I was chewing on the top button of my white sweater. Well, I must've worked it loose, because I swallowed it. The teacher sent me to the nurse who called my mom. I don't remember getting in trouble, but I remember my mom being mad when I swallowed my nickle milk money that very same school year. Those are the only memories that I have of that time. Then, we moved to Germany in the second half of my kindergarten year. I can remember walking to school with my sister on a rainy windy day. The wind caught my umbrella and turned it inside out. I was terrified that it was going to blow away and that I would get in trouble. My other memories from kindergarten/ 1st grade revolve around being terrified of my catechism teacher. Why is it that the scary times are all that I can remember? I can still vividly remember a nightmare that I had when I was in 2nd grade. And then there was the period of time that I was preparing for my first communion and being forced every Sunday to go to confession. I can remember lying to the priest by making up sins about talking back to my parents because at that age, I honestly didn't have any. Also, their was the incident at my communion where the girl behind me caught my veil on fire with her candle. I'm no longer a member of the Catholic church. [side note....When I was bedridden in the hospital for months on end several years ago due to a muscle disease, my husband wrote down "Catholic" on the admissions paperwork. Well, I was visited by a person from the Catholic church and when I told her that I was no longer a Catholic, she looked me straight in the face, and with all the sincerity in her heart, told me that that was probably why I was stricken with the disease....God was punishing me for leaving the Catholic church! Is it any wonder that I felt traumatized as a child! No offense meant to anyone of the Catholic faith....these are just my experiences and hopefully not indicative of the entire religion.]My earliest happy memories are of my 1st grade teacher Mrs. Gookins....a pixie blond, with cat-eye black eyeglass frames who always praised me at reading time. I'll have to ask my kids what their earliest memories are. I sure hope they aren't as scary as mine! My mom swears that she remembers back to when she was 2 years old, during World War II, and living in her hometown in Germany. Everyone in her small town hid out in a secluded room in the basement of an old farmhouse. She remembers being there for a very long time, and sleeping in a bed with a bunch of other children from the town. The bed was infested with fleas or bedbugs of some sort. Have you noticed that I have a hard time just giving a brief and to the point-answer to these daily questions?? I guess I talk that way too, because my son always gets that eyes-glazed-over-look just before telling me to get to the point. LOL!! Hugs, Janet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 30, 2004 Report Share Posted April 30, 2004 KAREN WROTE>>>I lived in a 2 story small frame home in Colorado. The furnace was in the basement and we had grates in the floors that opened to the floor below. In July of 1994, we went to Fort , Colorado for a family reunion. Since it was summer, we were all wearing shorts. When we went on a day trip up to Rocky Mtn. Nat. Park, we about froze to death in the snow! We were VERY grateful for the furnace floor grate at the visitors center. I didn't think that I was going to get my hubby and kids off of it! It sure did blow that heat with alot of force. I'd never seen anything like it before. Good thing we didn't have those as kids....mom worried enough about us touching the big old radiators in the army quarters. Hugs,Janet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 30, 2004 Report Share Posted April 30, 2004 My earliest memory is something I saw a picture of years and years ago and I was like I REMEMBER THAT! I was about 3 or 4 I believe my mom said. I had long hair that was curly. What's up with that? Anyway.....my father was working on a car and he was under it and I was sitting on a pumpkin and I have a stripped 70's shirt on. I was screaming and screaming at him because I guess he wasn't paying attention to me. LOL! Imagine that! Anyway....my mother snapped a picture and I truly believe that that's the earliest memory I can recall! LOL! -----Original Message-----From: Glaze, Deanna/Larry Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 5:37 PMTo: TexasTOPS Subject: Re: QOTD #38 What is your earliest memory from your childhood? This is a difficult one for me, as I truly don't have many memories from my early childhood. Don't know if I "erased" them for some reason, or I'm suffering from memory loss. My son is just the opposite - he can remember every detail of things that I have forgotten. Maybe it's medication, or old-timers disease. Hugs, DeannaEMAIL TEXAS-STYLE!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 1, 2004 Report Share Posted May 1, 2004 What is your earliest memory from your childhood? This is a difficult one for me, as I truly don't have many memories from my early childhood. Don't know if I "erased" them for some reason, or I'm suffering from memory loss. My son is just the opposite - he can remember every detail of things that I have forgotten. Maybe it's medication, or old-timers disease. Hugs, Deanna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 2, 2004 Report Share Posted May 2, 2004 I think one of the earilest memories of my childhood is a bad one because it was of me and my other siblings sitting in a neighbors porch swing watching our home go up in flames. I was about 4 1/2 when this happened. I remember someone grabbing me up out of bed and carring me to the house down the road and placing me on the porch swing and then someone else placed my baby brother in my arms and my other little brother beside me and telling em not to let them down and we were to stay put on the porch. Then someone else brought a blanket out to cover us and we sat there and watch the house burn down. I really did not understand what was happening but I remember thinking that the fire was so pretty and looked like the sun going down. I guess the earilest happiest memory I can remember was when i was about 5 or 6 Daddy took me to my first little " fair " and I got to ride a real live pony. Love pepper > >Reply-To: TexasTOPS >To: <TexasTOPS > >Subject: QOTD #38 >Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 07:46:21 -0500 > >What is your earliest memory from your childhood? _________________________________________________________________ Mother’s Day is May 9. Make it special with great ideas from the Mother’s Day Guide! http://special.msn.com/network/04mothersday.armx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 6, 2004 Report Share Posted May 6, 2004 What is your earliest memory from your childhood One of my earliest memories from childhood, is the morning I decided to go with my sister to school. She was in the first grade. My mother was working at the time, and my grandmother was babysitting me. I think my Dad may have worked evenings because my grandmother woke him up that I was gone. I don't know how they knew where I was, but my Dad came to the school and found me with my sister in class (with a dirty face). Barbara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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