flashback friday - {when i was a kid.}

i remember a few things about being a kid...

• picking up snails & snakes but being terrified of slugs.
• crouching down on the bathroom floor wrapped up in a towel after my bath because i didn't want to leave the warm bathroom & get cold.
• sitting in the back of our old station wagon facing backwards looking at cars behind us.
• making up plays & performing them for my stuffed animals.
• freaking out about a new cabbage patch kid.
• wearing stirrup leggings.
• drinking grape juice out of teeny old olive jars & pretending it was fancy like on movies {obviously now i realize those were shots}.
• riding my scooter that was basically a skateboard with handle bars & flipping over frontwards, scratching up my forehead & nose.
• our old miniature poodle "chewie," who growled & snarled at me when i tried to pick him up.
• wearing one pink & one purple converse high top like punky brewster.
• pressing a washcloth up against my eyes in the bath so soap wouldn't get in them when my mom rinsed the shampoo out of my hair.
• "my little pony" was the coolest thing ever.  ever.  ever.
• eating white bread by rolling it into a smooshed up ball.
• calling bread crusts "bones."
• getting sugar cereal on christmas morning from santa.
• cutting my bangs before picture day so they would "look good."
• tucking my sweatshirts into my jeans.  yeah... i dunno.
• thinking spotlights in the sky were ghosts.
• wanting to eat steak every day of the week.
• being terrified of aliens.

ok, i'm still terrified of aliens & i still want to eat steak every day of the week.  and i still look forward to sugar cereal on christmas morning.  but at least i don't tuck my sweatshirts into my jeans anymore, right?

how about a vote to start off your weekend? yay!