tiny memories. . .

[Jenni Marie]

(following Gita and Teresa's, etc. lead)

-My Grandma, who died when I was three, had a pink bedroom with a pink rose bedspread that we would sit on as she bounced me on her knee.

-I stole my first kiss from a six-year-old boy two weeks my senior in the backyard behind the bushes.

-McDonalds' drive-thru Happy Meals were the highlights of our rare family vacations during my formative years.

-Before my first brother was born, my mom declared he was kicking her so hard, so I decided to draw a picture of him with football cleats on because that was the only logical explanation.

-It was just after the boy's third birthday when I gave him a Blue's Clues dog that jumped and did somersaults that terrified him  so much I thought he would never trust me again.

-In the back of my teacher yearbook, an eighth grade boy wrote that I helped him a lot and thanked me for believing in him; it was the longest thing he'd wrote all year. 

[Teresa]

Love 1, 2, and 6 the most.  I can identify with them (my first kiss was under water with an eight year old, or maybe it was his younger brother whose second and third toes were webbed....can't remember).  Number 6 is interesting because I wonder what else the boy wanted to say but didn't.  I'm sure there was more, lots more..;-)

[Jenni Marie]

Thanks, Mike and Bolton!

[Jenni Marie]

Joey, I was four at the time, five just before he was born. This is a memory that my mom has told me many times, but I saw the picture evidence as well.

[Jenni Marie]

Gita, I wonder if I recall the color or the memory someone told me when I was young. It's so vivid, I can see the roses and the bright pink. I still consider it my first memory. Thanks for the memory post inspiration.

[Gita]

The fact that you recall the color pink from when you were three is really interesting. It says to me that sense memories are created when we are very young and while you might not recall the dresser or lamps, that bedroom pink is imprinted. And now it's associated with someone loving you.

This is the kind of thing I learn or confirm at 6S that keeps me coming back. Thank you!

[Joey Delgado]

Jen, I la-la-love #4. It's such an older sibling, kid thing to do and perfectly captures the thought process of a kid. Your brother was wearing cleats in your mom's belly, had to be.

[Mike Handley]

Great snippets, Jen. Yours makes me want to do it again. No. 6 REALLY kicks ass! Brava

[bolton carley]

good thing you redeemed yourself after scarring the boy for life. lol.  amazing what sticks with us!

[Jenni Marie]

Thanks, Angela!

[Angela]

Your 6th was especially touching, but all of them were vivid.  Nice work.