Meme

I've been tagged by my blogging buddy Melody Ann.

What 5 Things do you miss about your childhood?

But first the rules to this meme game: Remove the blog at #1 from the following list and bump every one up one place; add your blog's name in the #5 spot; link to each of the other blogs for the desired cross pollination effect:

1. JustaskJudy
2. Loose Leaf
3. Lu's News
4. Searchin' For A Rainbow
5. Ain't it Amazing?  

Next: select new friends to add to the pollen count. (No one is obligated to participate).

1.  Jenny

2.  Melissa

3.  Ms.  J. Mind

4. Helen 

5. Abraham Lincoln

now on to the game...

1.  Visiting my grandparents and having dinner with them.  My grandmother would cook, and the adult ladies would help, and clean up.  The kids had a card table in the living room.  When the kids got bigger, they got to sit at the dining table with the adults.  When my grandfather retired, my grandparents sold their house and bought a travel trailer and traveled all over the US so I never got to sit at the big table.  On the way home, my dad would put a radio program on in the car, and we would listen to it.  (The Shadow)

2.  The scent of my grandmother.  She used cover girl powder and that's what might have given her that scent.  She always smelled good!  I was named after my two grandmothers.  My Mom's mother was Mary, and I never got to know her.  She passed away when I was only 6 months old.  My paternal grandmother was my role model, and we had a very close relationship.  I miss her terribly.

3.  Sitting on my Daddy's lap watching the "Brooklyn Dodgers" and falling asleep.  Sometimes he would put me on his lap in the car and let me "drive" into the parking lot at out apartment.

4.  My "big" brother.  Except for a short time of sadistic teasing, he was always there for me, and is today, but lives in California.  I'm in New Jersey.  It's not like when we lived at home, tho.  I miss him.

5.  Going to Pa. to visit family on weekends and during the summer.  My Uncle Al drove most of the time, and we would stop at Cesar's diner where we would get fresh lumpy orange juice (it was so yummy!)

Comments

[Helen]

Give me a day or two and I will be happy to oblige!
Peace..............

[Jenny]

YAY, how fun! i'm all over it! thanks for the tag, i was starting to feel left out of this one. :)

[Lu]

those are GREAT memories!

[candace]

Your post made me think of sitting at the cardtable, too!

[Melly]

ugh, sorry to be a party pooper, but i hate chain things

thanks for inviting me to do it though, i feel special :o)

[jumbledmind]

hi! thanks for linking me!! I'll be back to do the tag real soon!!

[jumbledmind]

I've completed your meme!!

[melodyann]

Trudie, where are you? Has the end of time come and I missed it? Nobody is writing on their blogs! I have nothing to read! help!