Between the age of 5 & 10, what was your favorite activity?
My favorite thing to do was swing. I don't have a lot of memories between those ages. So I asked my Mom what I did a lot back then. She said she could never get me off the swing. It's strange because the second she said that I remembered! I love it! I remember sneaking to the park, I think I was 6 and my brother's were all looking for me. They finally found me when it was already getting dark. There I was on the swings. Finally my Mom put in a swing set. I can remember that day. I don't think I got off that swing all day. I remember swinging as high as I could go and jumping off. I still love to swing... although I don't jump off high in the air anymore. Maybe I'll go try that today :)
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Oh gosh, this one is a toughie (and thank you for adding my name to the list of participants - I keep wondering if I should start my own Journal Jar). I enjoyed a lot of different activities between 5 and 10. I liked reading, I liked playing pretend games (my favorite when I got my first Big Wheel was to pretend I was "Speed Racer", even if he was a boy). I also remember fondly making mudpies in mom's backyard and practically destroying her tiger lilies because I liked see the sap that came out of the stems. My family also did a lot of camping and that is something that still stays with me today. I haven't been in a long time, but I would love to go. I'd have to say that I enjoyed writing too. In 3rd grade (so, I'd have been about 7 or 8), me and a boy in my class decided to start "stories" to write in our own free time. His was about the McDonaldland characters and mine was about the Underdog cartoon characters. I wish I still had those. I guess, thinking back now, writing replaced my "pretend" games and I do have a story I've been working on for a few years now. In writing, I could be whoever I wanted to be, live how I wanted to live, accomplish things that in real life, I didn't think I could. So, I guess for each stage of life, and I think there are many between the ages of 5 and 10, I can't say there was just "one" favorite activity. Sorry! Hugs, Sheila
Oops, please forgive the double comment - I'll think more about my own Journal Jar and use your questions to answer. About the mudpies I used to make...it just hit me the connection between that and my love of baking now that I'm older. Yes, yes!!! I do like this journal! Very thought provoking!!!! Like mental aerobics! Thank you and your sis for the idea! Sheila
Spin the Bottle..................OOPS MY BAD! lol
I was such a tom boy, and my absolute favorite thing to do was to catch bugs and frogs. Okay, catching them wasn't my favortie part... dumping them on my sisters was! They HATED me almost as much as they hated bugs and frogs!
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i liked to go to the beach a lot. since we were about 5 minutes away from the beach-- so went a lot. i used to also like going to the meat market and order the lunchmeat- they always would give me a piece while i stood there... and i thought that it was so great that they did this.
My favorite thing to do was follow my brother and his friends around. Believe it or not, they let me. We would ride bikes, climb trees, build forts, or go swimming in the neighbors pond, until the neighbor would catch us and chase us away telling us that his pet alligator would end up eating us. When I wasn't with my brother I was up in a tree reading or daydreaming.
My favorite thing was to play with my Barbie dolls..I had so many barbies, and of course a bunch of clothes for all the dolls and a couple houses and the barbie cars.
~Nikki~
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I used to like shooting my BB gun, until 1 day, my cousin and I accidentally shot a hornet`s nest ................................ouch!MUSINGS
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Swinging was my favorite activity as well. You see I was sexually raped and abused by my older brother when I was that young. And to escape the feelings and pretend it didnt happen, I would go out to the swing set, which was in the very back of the yard, with a fence running behind it. I would swing back and forth, and I could see the entire yard and the back of the house. So he couldnt sneak up on me and try it again.
While I sat out there for hours and swang back and forth, I would dream I was somebody else. That I lived in another house, with another family.
I would dream that I wasnt that little boy who lived in that house.
That was my way of denying that it was happening almost everyday.
Even now as an adult in my 40's, with 4 children of my own.
I still love to take them to the park, and I like to get on the swings.
I guess its the type of healing medicine that never stops.
It has to be riding my bike. I just loved that bike. I was always falling off and cutting my knees, elbows etc. But I just jumped back on and carried on reghardless !
Sandra x
Growing up as a tomboy, I think I spent half of my childhood climbing trees. I loved being outside. You could get away from the fighting, and create your own little world. I used to play a lot with the kid down the hill from me, until he asked me what my you-know-what looked like, and I knew that times were a changing, and we couldn't play together anymore. Not to be offensive, but we tried to describe our works so to speak. He said he had two b***s and I said I had 3. lolol...
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I had so many favorite activities... Swinging was definitely one of them, also spinning round and round on the merry-go-round. I loved that dizzy feeling! :) And then I loved riding my big wheel and my bike, climbing my favorite tree, and dressing up my dog in dresses! lol I had a wagon that I liked to fill up with rocks and dirt and junk I found on the side of the road. And of course I liked building snowmen in the winter. During the summer, I played in a sandbox my mom made for my brother and me.
I always liked dress-up. My friend and I would make dressed out of just about anything. We wanted to be grown up so quick. Unfortunately I got that wish. Sure would be nice to know things I know now and start it all over again.....
I loved to read!!!!!
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That would have to be gymnastics. There was something freeing about taking your body in directions that God never intended it to go, lol. And be still my heart for the thrill of a wrong landing and broken bones can still make my heart palpate like a kid, lol. It was a much more demanding activity than most people ever gave it credit and the funniest thing is both of my daughters are doing it and they chose that before they ever even knew I had taken it for years. Something has to be said about that right??? I can still do most everything I was taught provided I have roughly two to three months of vacation time to recooperate after each tumble, lol
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I'm getting there. I'll catch up soon. LOL Sure wish I had found this sooner. It's addictive!
~Stephanie~
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#4 I truly can't remember - but here it is - Melissa = )
Here it is:
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Thanks again for the memories! Shelly
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xoxo~Bernadette
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