February 22, 2008
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The Kween of the Queens Challenge:
Things That Happened To Me Before I Was 10:
- Walking to school with Joanne, a family friend. She would buy me Mike & Ike candies on the way back home - hence my fondness for those particular candies.
- Had my tonsils removed. I recall the nurse bathing me in shockingly cold water, also after the surgery vomiting blood (or at least what seemed like blood to me) and being rushed out of my room.
- Forging my parents signature on "white slips" from school. They were notices that made parents aware of bad behavior or missing homework.
- Taking trips to Mexico every summer, stopped going in 1988 when I started high school. Some excursions were to Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico City, and various places in between. The most memorable was going to the Chapultepec Zoo and seeing the panda bears - which were big news at the time.
- I remember throwing a tantrum in the store when my Aunt wouldn't buy me the new Michael Jackson "Thriller" album.
- My pediatrician (who just retired last year), Dr. Magarian - but I called her Dr. Margarine.
- Family trips during Christmas to Disneyland, I always looked forward to the end of the year when we would go.
- My dad's company picnics held at Marineland, which no longer exists.
- Moving from an apartment to our current house.
- My mom and dad getting us the much envied Cabbage Patch Dolls, I still have it too.
That's pretty much all I recall for now. Seems like my childhood wasn't too bad, even with two annoying siblings ... LOL!
Comments (22)
Good post MiLady! You've reminded me that I had my tonsils out when I was about 4 too! I had forgotten all about that! And Marineland. ...man, I miss that place! You've been linked ~Kween
Aww, family trips to Mexico? How fun!
'Cuz Panda's are the coolioests!
RYC: Burn 'em down!
I'm surprised they never removed my tonsils considering I was born in '63 and had major tonsil attacks once a year for at least 4 during adolescence. Mexico and Disneyland sound great!
i'm glad you are remembering the good times. i had a cabbage patch kid too. her name was elizabeth. one day i desided to redo her hair. it was never the same again. did you know they were bald underneath those pig tails!
i've never seen a panda in real life. i want to hunt one down and take pictures.
Good job!
Thank you for sharing! .. And.. Trips to Mexico? Awesome
You must have been the oldest? Nice list!
Dear Liz,
My dad would drive along the 5 freeway to Disneyland on Teamsters nights. That's when only the members of the Teamster's union would have a night at the park. I can remember each of us kids trying to be the first to see the matterhorn rising in the distance. I certainly got spoiled by going on nights when there were so few people in the park that all the rides had no lines, and there were no crowds. This was back in the day when they had "tickets' to get on the rides, but I didn't know about that because on Teamster's night everything was "free".
On senior "ditch day" in high school I found out that Disneyland is really a place where it's quite crowded and people have to wait in long lines to go on the rides.
Marineland has been only a memory for a while now. We never went there for some reason, but I do remember passing by it as a child, although I have no idea why we would be on the peninsula except on a Sunday drive perhaps. Now the peninsula is one of my favorite places as you know. Marineland's "shell" was existant for a time but all traces are gone now, replaced with housing developments like the rest of the peninsula.
Neat to see you participating in a blogring challenge. When I joined the KOTQ ring I didn't realize you were a fellow member.
Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool
Great post. I remember cabbage patch kids. I would have given you stars, but it wouldn't let me.
LOL on your forging abilities! I did the same thing (although I was in high school when I did it). I wrote notes excusing me from school because I didn't feel well and then I traced my mom's signature from my library card!
It's funny. I think of a lot of bad things in my childhood, but you just reminded me how much good there was back then!
Great list, what a lot of travelling you did at a young age, what great memories those must be!
I think number 3 most kids have attempted to do at some point during school.
Your memories are fun and exciting. That is good. I enjoyed reading about them. Thanks for sharing them. PS. I have never been to Disneyland, but I have been to Disneyworld.
Wow, you had awesome trips! That's so fun. I never went on a family vacation. Just visiting relatives disguised as a "vacation" I want to give my kids (when I have them) fun memories of going on family trips! I was too good a kid, I never even considered forging my parents signature. Once, my mom told me that she knew my report card was good but couldn't find a pen, so I should sign her name when I got to school. I refused. lol! And I love cabbage patch kids!
I still have my daughter's Cabbage Patch doll. His name is Calvin, he was a premie. Great list!
I LOVED my cabbage patch doll, Lennora Sissy. I swear. That is the name she came with!
There is still a Marine Land in Canada!
The trips to Mexico must have been awesome. And Disneyland at Christmas. What fun. I forged my parents name once or twice maybe
. Fun reading. peace
Neat that you went to Mexico as I went to Egypt as when I was little girl.. I didn't forge my parent's signature til I was in my teens. LOL Good posting.
That's so funny about the Thriller album! Great post
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