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I just bought a pair of Candie's wooden clogs that remind me of a pair I used to wear as a kid - does this count?
My "Hollywood" photo at age 3 - wearing a pink fur coat, knee high socks with black patten leather shoes, huge Jackie O sunglasses and carrying a beach ball. Where was I going and what was I thinking?
When I hear music that makes me think of certain phases of my life.
When I see old movies that make me think of my childhood.
I guess you can say that different forms of media take me back more than objects.
A deck of cards, my family is was into pinochle and the adults used to play while us kids got to hang out and spend some time together.
my first bike, b/c I remember my dad following me on the bike and helping me learn to ride - I still love riding today...
the scent of homemade bread/baked good, as it reminds me of being at home with my mother....
For me it tends to be all things that have to do with the memory of time spent with my parents/grandparents, doing something and being together.
I had one of those childhoods too. The item I wrote about was also a book. It was from the best part of my childhood. It was only one year but it was the one in which I felt safe, loved and magical.. all because of one very, special teacher.
I don't know if this was their real name, but I had a whole set of "Sea Weeds", which were little plastic mermaids that came with their own sponge lily pad they could float in the bathtub with. They came with baby mermaids too. I LOVED mermaids. Still do.
"the men up there don't care a lot for chatter, they really think that gossip is a bore" "sing ARIEL, SING!" "sing. for. ME.!!!" BWWWWAHHH HAHAHAHAHA!
There is another item that I know from childhood though it wasn't really mine until just recently. I wear my mother's gold wedding band as my own. My mother passed 15 years ago, and my father kept her ring (and his) after he remarried. He passed them on when we married, and I treasure them. For me my mother's ring symbolizes two generations of love, partnership, and family, and warms my heart to see it on my hand.
The ones I loved most were Love Boat and Fantasy Island, because my mum didn't work on Saturday, and she would buy a few boxes of Old Dutch (miss not caring about eating that crap as well), and all us girls would sit around and laugh our heads off together.
My other fav was of course The Tonight Show! I have always been a night owl, and I used to stay up and watch it with my dad. He and I would watch it together, while everyone else was asleep.
The one item from childhood that still makes me smile actually came up in conversation today...
When I was 8 years old I had this incredible teacher. It was 1954 and Miss Mortimer taught us in a one room, rural schoolhouse. She's the reason I finally am writing. She inspired and encouraged me. The reading of my stories were always left for last and you could actually feel the anticipation as I made my way to the front of the class to read for them.
But it was my entry for 'A Letter To Santa' that won me first prize. It was a shiny copy of "The Bobbsey Twins In The Country," addressed on the inside cover as follows: "Presented to Linda Borland as a prize for her letter to Santa." The book was lost along the way and I now scour flea markets, antique shops and second hand book stores, searching for that particular copy. Who knows, maybe the person reading this has tucked it away on a shelf somewhere? Now wouldn't that be ironic - and wonderful?
I remember getting that poem by Joyce Kilmer (set to music by a boy I had a crush on, and Joyce Kilmer was the father of the founder of my elementary school) in my head whenever I passed that pond in the spring as a girl. I was a sap back then, and still am.
No object does it to me.
I also got a chemistry set although I must admit I have no real interest in chemistry but there was something about all those little bottles and beakers and other nifty little tools that I loved. I did a few of the experiments.