What are Some of Your Favorite Childhood Memories

 By: Joan Whetzel

When I first saw this question as a writing prompt, I rejected it. It read: “What Is Your Favorite Childhood Memory?” I couldn’t imagine writing about one memory as my favorite. I knew somewhere down the road, another favorite memory would come to mind, and that one would compete with my current favorite. I know, because I keep having favorite childhood memories show up when I’m not looking. And I find I can’t decide which one is truly my favorite. With that in mind, I changed the writing prompt to “What are Some of Your Favorite Childhood Memories?” I jotted down a few of them below.

Sliding down the hill on flattened boxes in Ohio.

-        Tobogganing down one of the few hills in Rolling Meadows, and almost going over the edge into the creek.

-        Waiting for the pond in Rolling Meadows to freeze so we could go ice skating on the rippled ice.

-        Waiting every Christmas foe grandma’s box of Christmas cookies. My favorites were the waffle cookies and the chocolate coconut cookies

-        The house on Rowan St. here in Houston when we first moved in. At the end of the block was a field of cows.

-        Grandma and Grandpa taking the train to Houston to visit us every Thanksgiving. I loved going to the train station to pick them up. When they went home, grandpa would always tie all of our shoes together and knotted the laces so we couldn’t get them loosened to go to school the next Monday

-        Every fall, grandma would send us a package with fall leaves pressed between sheets of waxed paper, because we didn’t get proper fall colors down here.

 

Oh, there’s lots more. This is just the starter kit.