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Poolie - 2008-02-17 12:39:05
Oh, how I miss those days of frozen-cheeked childhood!
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Kathy - 2008-02-17 17:56:52
Scrambling eggs on an old electric stove and toasting English muffins just makes me miss all the old people and their old kitchen pots and pans even more. How awesome!
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Holly - 2008-02-17 20:49:16
When I was a kid they had to practically lasso us back in. All the fun was outside, inside was ususally boring on weekends, of course that was the old days before video games, dvd/vcr's and computers or cable. "how did I ever survive" I still miss my good old Yankee clipper. When you greased the blades on that thing it shot like a rocket, of course nowadays, that's way to dangerous, little darling might get a bump or something.
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goatbarnwitch - 2008-02-17 20:51:42
Hey, A and her BFF were out peguin sledding this morning before the sleepover playdate was offically over. No equipment needed just the will to have a blast while sliding downhill on one's belly. I guess between the two of us there are at least a couple of kids with nice pink cheeks.
(I have been seeing orange accents since I painted the living room. I wonder what it/they will turn out to be)
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Pam L - 2008-02-17 22:45:16
Kids still sled around here, when there's snow, that is. We don't drive to sled in the mountains so it's a rare day we have enough snow down here. The only sledding related injury here happened when my oldest was about 6 and I took him down to the park. He wanted to try a new area of the hill and it was far enough away from the rocks of the drainage ditch , or so I thought. Did I mention I was almost 8 months pregnant with son #2? Well, as you may have guessed, the older sledding son started down the hill one time and slowly started veering off way over towards the side where the dreaded rocks were. Not nice round rocks but big sharp edged rocks that never should have been used in a park. I was yelling at him to bail off the sled but he froze and stayed on, all the way to the rocks with me trying to "run" down the hill to him. He had the largest ugliest bruise on his left butt cheek I have ever seen. But he still hit the hills after that whenever possible. I grew up north of you and we would sled every single day possible until we were frozen in our old fashioned cotton batting filled snow pants. Thank god for polypropolene now.
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Julie - 2008-02-18 08:41:31
Here in the wilds of VT my kids are lucky enough to sled on nearly a daily basis. In fact, the public school has enough sleds for every child to sled during recess, provided by our PTO. There are still pockets of sanity hiding in the US.
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cccerberus - 2008-02-18 10:03:08
You did describe the frenetic safety issues this generation is fraught with, perfectly. Was recently at my in-laws in snowy MA, and a family with a SIXTEEN year old girl and eight year old boy came over. The kids wanted to play outside and the parents were filling them with precautionary insanity, like the kids had no experience of pain on their own. When I offered the kids a snow disc, they were forbade to use it, because it was "too icey." Meanwhile, the hills in the yard were really tiny and the kids were way old enough to figure that shit out themselves. Also, when the kids were momentarily out of their parent's sight (in the middle of a safe rural no man's land) the parents were worried sick, like the kids were toddlers with no safety catches of their own. In a land of safety seats and electronic devices, maybe these basic human instincts have been stunted in this country- who knows.
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terri - 2008-02-18 13:34:49
I remember how we neighborhood kids would barrel down the alley way which was on an incline and run right into the street....it's a miracle that we weren't killed...not to mention roller skating down the sidewalk on the other side in the summer.....I used to bail out by rolling into the grass before I got to the cross alley. It was fun but in looking back...not too safe!!!!
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