These are the sorts of memories firmly embedded in my brain, or so I learned at the Dementia Workshop!
| Hours of playing hop scotch. |
 | We loved to play Cats Cradle. I was pretty good at the basics, but couldn't do the more complicated exchanges. |
 | "The Black Stallion" is the first novel I remember reading by myself, recommended by my friend Stephen Calegari. I became an instant fan of Walter Farley and his horses. I still have a soft spot in my heart for that book. |
 | I had a very good relationship with this guy. My mother kept it filled with cookies, usually chocolate chip. My challenge was always to be able to lift the head, take a cookie, and replace the head without making any noise. I got pretty good at doing it! |
 | We were such fans of Crusader Rabbit! |
 | I was a Girl Scout and passionate about earning badges. I can't remember any of the badges I earned now, but I constantly poured over my handbook to find badges that I could work toward earning. |
 | We loved to play jacks--and my mother was better at it than either my sister or me. I loved getting down on the floor and playing jacks with her! |
 | These are Story Book dolls. I had a set of about 8 of them, but I wasn't allowed to touch them. My father made boxes for them and they hung on the wall of our bedroom as decoration. I guess they were given away after I left home. I don't remember ever having a say in what happened to them. |
 | For special occasions, my mother made a chocolate cream roll--cake filled with real whipped cream and topped with bittersweet chocolate frosting. Haven't had a taste of this in decades. |
 | My first camera. I was 10. The rest is history! |
 | I loved roller skating and longed for shoe skates, but they were just too expensive, so I wore these strap ons, with the skate key to tighten the grip on my shoes. |
 | I learned to type on a machine like this and, again, the rest is history! |
3 comments:
I had those same skates and I remember not wanting those kind because of the other kids making fun of us saying we were too poor to afford good skates , the boot kind of roller skates . I still have my dolls and my one fave is my cinderella doll and i still have her . I took them with me when I left home . The one doll my mother did not take back to get a refund and use for as she said more practical things . Yep mom took our xmas presents back from relatives to the store and got a money refund . If the relative asked it was put away , Seems like the relative was always too polite to ask to see it .Sometimes I wish they had .
My mother has that cookie jar!! It was my great grandmothers, but I don't ever recall my mother putting cookies in it. Her collection of cookie jars always held cookie cutters instead. =)
Such good memories!
strangly, I had a roller skate key but no roller skates.
I like the things of my youth. I don't need dementia to remember it, thank God.
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