Day 10: Childhood Memories

I loved my childhood!

I say it all the time and sometimes I think people don't believe me, but seriously I LOVED MY CHILDHOOD! I would love to travel back in time and spend a day (any day) as a child again. For this very reason it took me all day to decide what childhood memory I wanted to capture with a camera. Would it be running through the sprinklers, playing on our swing set, making forts and clay pots down in the gully, "cooking" up some tasty treats in the sandbox, putting on a parade for the neighborhood, riding bikes, going for walks, playing tag, building floor plan houses out of leaves and pine needles (obviously not this one as it isn't fall)...the list could go on and on. Since I wasn't visiting my parent's house today I had to pick something that I could recreate while at Cris and Jim's. I decided that my childhood memory would be Skip-It; not the name brand, sold in stores Skip-It, but the made at home out of a spoon and jump rope Skip-It (Cris didn't have a jump rope so I settled for a dog leash). Now, our skip-it didn't tally the number of jumps for us and it wasn't the  perfect length for jumping but it proved to be hours of fun. Our childhood lent itself to imagination and ingenuity, adventure and friendship, problem-solving and laughter. I am grateful for the childhood I had and for the three sisters and neighborhood full of children I spent it with.