- You had chubby cheeks, thunder thighs, and you weren’t considered fat or overweight
- All you needed was a blanket and a mom to feel safe
- You screamed your guts out when mom left for a date
- You could eat like a pig and it was “cute”
- A box is all the entertainment you needed
- Boys/girls had cooties
- School was fun
- Making friends was as simple as sharing a toy
- Responsibility didn’t exist
- Your dad was always wrong and your mom was always right
- A band aid fixed everything
- Macaroni and Cheese was a delicacy
- Power Rangers were your life
- Dinner time was an inconvenience to your play schedule
- You rode your bike for the first time
- You crashed on your bike for the first time
- Summer time meant living in the swimming pool
- Camping was an excuse to get as dirty as possible
- You learned your multiplication tables and felt you could do anything now
- You became a certified fort builder
- Spelling bee’s scared you
- Bees scared you
- You had no fear
- Running didn’t cause you so much pain
- All you needed was a blanket and a ball to make a game and be entertained for hours
- You realized your brothers and sisters were your absolute best friends and not your wicked enemies
- It didn’t matter how many gummy bears you ate, you would never get a stomach ache
- Soccer was your life
- Santa existed
- The heartbreak you felt when you learned he didn’t
- Making home videos were how you spent your Sundays
- You hoped for cool scars after an accident
- Sleeping till 11 am was so cool
- Staying out till 11 pm was so cool
- You didn’t have to pretend you were bored during church
- Lighting your first firework by yourself
- Stress didn’t exist
- Cleaning your room was punishment
- You could eat all the cookie dough you wanted and still have room for cookies
- You dressed yourself for the first time
- You did your own hair for the first time
- Your socks never matched
- It didn’t matter if you didn’t do well in soccer, it was still fun and you didn’t get mad about it
- You bought your first cd
- You wanted toys for Christmas instead of practical stuff
- You didn’t dread Mondays
- You caught and gutted your first fish
- Work was having to finish your game
- You cashed that first paycheck
- You thought the main guy in “Blues Clues” was an artist
- Pokeman cards were like gold and you put them in plastic sleeves in a folder
- Nerf gun wars were a daily occurrence
- You begged to have a treat every time you went to the grocery store with your mom
- You didn’t beg for a treat, and your mom surprised you with a treat
- You could slide down the stairs in the laundry basket and not be sore the next day
You desperately wanted to be considered an adult
You desperately wanted to be a child again
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ReplyDeleteI swear this is the life I live! Just wishing one way and then the other.. I desperately want to just wish my life away. "I wish I was older. I wish I was just married, and had a husbadnd all to myself, I wish I had children, and children for me, not just the cute little kids that I watch and then have to give back. I wish I could have my own house with a mortgage to pay. I wish I could go shopping for a family and then come home and make dinner and sit around the table andn talk about our day. But then at the same time, I wish I was younger, with no responsibility, not have to wake up early and have to actually work to earn money. Not having to worry about the stupid pettiness of other people, not having to worry that I don't understand life, or the twists and turns it throws at me, being able to stay in my pj's all day and not caring. Eating as much as I want and not gain a single pound because I'm out side plaing around all the time..
Crazy how that works.