Flashback Fridays -- Summer is For Kids (The Quiet Life of Violet)

07/30/2010

Summer:

Stick Stickley
Doughboy pools
Watching Nickeloden all day long.
Donkey Kong on Super Nintendo.
Pink Flamingo flavored Kool-Aid (anyone else remember this flavor?)
Spending the night at my best friend's house THREE nights in a row (we got sick of each other by day 2.5.)
Playing with Hope, my next door neighbor. We played house, made mud pies, spent hours with her KILLER Barbie collection, tormented her brother, played Super Nintendo (She had Mario Paint, I was jealous), played board games...
Chasing down the ice cream man. Sorry we begged for money almost EVERYDAY, Mom. I'm sure it wasn't cheap, with three kids and all. :)
My birthday and how I never got to celebrate with my class (June 21st).
Theme songs (I STILL know the words and notes. )

Discovering the joy of riding my bike around the block by myself.
Late night Summer walks with Mom.
Getting terrible sunburns.
Berenstain Bear books, over and over again.
Pretending that my hand was a boy's mouth and imagining what kissing was like.
Drawing a town with roads and shops and parking spots and bossing my siblings around. "You CAN'T walk on the store!" ... "You have to park THERE!" .. "Don't smear the lines!"
Sticking to that big, brown Naugahyde chair my parents had on really hot days. Getting up was painful!
Making mixed tapes off of the radio.
Puppies! My parents bred Spring Spaniels and we almost always had a pudgy little littler of pups around.
Spending hours and hours in my backyard.
Dreading the first day of the new school year...