There are moments from my childhood that I have been patiently waiting to share with my children. Some of these memories have been running around my brain since I first saw a two pink lines in 2006 and some only return when one of children asks a question and I suddenly remember exactly what it was like to be four or six. Those little moments that remind me of the Percy Bysshe Shelley quote:
Here are minutes and times from my childhood that still make me smile and are or are beginning to make my children smile as well:
– Picking buttercups and holding it under chins to see if who likes butter {answer: everyone}
– Hopscotch!
– Every late 80s and early 90s pop song without curse words. It's a Deee-Lite to dance and sing them again. Heh.
– Keep the balloon on the ground.
– {two days later} Keep the balloon in the air.
– Bouquets of honeysuckles and dandelions and daffodils and having no idea which are weeds because all flowers are for picking and giving to family and friends with love.
– Hands up and out: Down, down baby down by the roller coaster. Sweet sweet baby. I'll never let you go. {some of the lyrics to the hand clapping songs are modified at this age}
– Cat's cradle string games because I can still make the tea cup.
– Tea parties under the water and doing flips until we don't know the top from the bottom of the pool.
– Finding constellations in the sky and calling meteors falling stars no matter how much astronomy we learn
– Daisy chains.
– French-braiding hair right-side in and inside-out.
-Worm/Ant/Frog races.
-Forts. So many forts
– Complex trip wires and traps so no one can sneak up on the so-many-forts without a bucket of water falling on their head. {review where the towels are}
– 300 ways to play tag: Tag, Freeze tag, Flashlight tag, Television tag, Buddy tag, Blog Tag, etc
– Two-square and Four-square week-long tournaments
I could probably go on forever, but my children want me to teach them how to do a cartwheel. And then we'll learn how to do them over and over again until we run out of lawn.
What are you looking forward to sharing with your kids? Or what have shared that made you feel a little bit closer to the little boy or girl you once were?
