childhood memories survey

SkierElle

Looks like fun!!

* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up? California....
* What was the name of the street you grew up on? flora
* Do you still talk to your first best friends? yep!
* What toy could you most often be found playing with? beanie babies!
* What games did you like to play? umm... rummy, hide and seek?
* Did you have a baby-sitter? for like two nights
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid? not really, although I did fall off a steer once and got a huge scar
* How else did you enjoy spending your time? riding horses
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you? yep took a lot of friends skiing with me
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child? skiing!!
* Did you every bury a time capsule? I think so but I don't remember where!
* Did you move away from where you grew up? thankfully so!
* What do you wish you could have changed? I wish i grew up somewhere with real seasons!
* Did you have any pets? HEAPS!! dogs, cats, horses, rodents, reptiles, etc
* What was your favorite christmas present? bouncy horse
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble? staying outside past when the streetlights came on being sassy.

Jess116

* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up?
eastern Pa, in the middle of nowhere

* What was the name of the street you grew up on?
rural route #3...seriously!

* Do you still talk to your first best friends?
reconnected with a few through Facebook.

* What toy could you most often be found playing with?
loved my big wheels and then bicycle later on

* What games did you like to play?
flashlight tag, hide and seek

* Did you have a baby-sitter?
only every once in awhile

* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid?
not really, fell off the horse many times though!

* How else did you enjoy spending your time?
playing with the neighborhood kids

* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you?
yes, every year to the beach

* What was your favorite vacation, as a child?
tie between Virginia Beach and Disney

* Did you every bury a time capsule?
no, that would have been cool though

* Did you move away from where you grew up?
no, only left to go to college

* What do you wish you could have changed?
nothing, it's made me who I am today

* Did you have any pets?
yes- lots!

* What was your favorite christmas present?
crayons or anything art-related

* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble?
if I got in trouble, I blamed my younger brother

virginiagomes

* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up? Playing with other kids outside my house in Santiago, Dominican Republic
* What was the name of the street you grew up on? Calle Ocho
* Do you still talk to your first best friends? Yes, I do
* What toy could you most often be found playing with? Barbies
* What games did you like to play? Hop-scotch (sp), jumping rope, modeling
* Did you have a baby-sitter? Nope
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid? Yes, I got burned at 2 y.o with a boiling pot of water for washing towels
* How else did you enjoy spending your time? Singing
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you?No
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child? To my auntie Norma
* Did you every bury a time capsule? Not yet
* Did you move away from where you grew up? Yes
* What do you wish you could have changed? Nothing
* Did you have any pets? Yes, several stray dogs which my mom used to give away after a day or two
* What was your favorite christmas present? Barbie dolls
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble? Climbing Walls

ldafoe

* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up? Brighton, IL
* What was the name of the street you grew up on? South St
* Do you still talk to your first best friends? Sometimes
* What toy could you most often be found playing with? Barbies
* What games did you like to play? Big Bad Wolf
* Did you have a baby-sitter? Only three times I can recall
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid? Too many to count!
* How else did you enjoy spending your time? Reading. As punishment, my parents would take away my library card!
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you? No, but I went to summer camp every year with my friends.
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child? Disneyland
* Did you every bury a time capsule? No
* Did you move away from where you grew up? Yes, got married and moved across country
* What do you wish you could have changed? Nothing
* Did you have any pets? Many cats
* What was your favorite christmas present? Powder blue ten-speed bike
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble? Speaking before thinking...still have that problem today!

RedneckWmn

* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up? Small town north of Dallas, TX
* What was the name of the street you grew up on? Roaring Springs
* Do you still talk to your first best friends? Sure do!! We've been friends for 20 years
* What toy could you most often be found playing with? Barbies or Legos
* What games did you like to play? Dream Phone, Clue, Battleship...I HATE HATE HATE Monopoly...I have no patience!
* Did you have a baby-sitter? My best friends Mom
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid? Not really..my own fault
* How else did you enjoy spending your time? Riding bikes around the neighborhood with my best friend getting into whatever trouble we could find.
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you? Yep!
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child? I didn't get many vacations as a child other then going back to Wisconsin to see my family. "vacations" were taken as an adult..my FIRST vacation to a beach is a little over a month away!
* Did you every bury a time capsule? In Elementery School
* Did you move away from where you grew up? Nope still live in the same area.
* What do you wish you could have changed? I would not of let my weight get out of control like I did.
* Did you have any pets? Always owned a dog.
* What was your favorite christmas present? haha....my nintendo WII...as an adult..how sd.
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble? My best friend...we were always up to no good. We grew up living about 2 blocks apart.

suerun11

* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up? Outside, Military Bases, Beaches

* What was the name of the street you grew up on? Don't laugh-Easy Street

* Do you still talk to your first best friends? I sure do! She has too much dirt on me not too!

* What toy could you most often be found playing with? Cabbage Patch Kids

* What games did you like to play? Skip-bo

* Did you have a baby-sitter? No, my mom stayed home

* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid?Too many, Broke my arm at 2 (Bookshelf fell on me), Broke my collar bone 13- (Wrestling Camp), Broke my arm and busted my head open requiring stitches (Jet Ski accident)..to name a few:)

* How else did you enjoy spending your time? Reading, summer church camps, Running

* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you? Yes to the Lake camping where we both required stitches to our heads, see above

* What was your favorite vacation, as a child? We were more of a camping family by water, still love water, not so much camping as much!

* Did you every bury a time capsule? In high school my whole senior class did

* Did you move away from where you grew up? Yes! Went away to college and never went back

* What do you wish you could have changed? I was nicer and closer to my little sister like we are becoming now

* Did you have any pets? Yes, dogs, cats, rats, lizards, fish

* What was your favorite Christmas present? Teddy Ruxpin

* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble? Talking to much!

FitJoani

Mon 12/06/10 01:21 AMWhere did you spend most of your childhood growing up? Pittsburgh and Tionesta
* What was the name of the street you grew up on? Mayville Ave
* Do you still talk to your first best friends? Absolutely!!!
* What toy could you most often be found playing with? Matchbox Cars and a Ball of some sort
* What games did you like to play? Tag, Olympics(gymnasticsin my yard), kickball, hockey, soccer
* Did you have a baby-sitter? Nope my gramma was still with me
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid? Crashed my bike trying to be a brave kid
* How else did you enjoy spending your time? Imaginary games.
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you? NOPE
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child? as a teenager actually to france
* Did you every bury a time capsule? We made one in grade school and opened it at the end of the year
* Did you move away from where you grew up? yep and moved back
* What do you wish you could have changed? To have a "normal" two parent household
* Did you have any pets? Doggies and fish. also had geckos, a tarantula, snaken and hermit crabs
* What was your favorite christmas present? the one my parents hated an electronic keyboard
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble? not eating my meat at dinner

SugarDiva

Oh boy! I love things like this!

* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up?
Here in NS in a small community, usually in the backyard

* What was the name of the street you grew up on?
It was a road.. called Lemuel Smith

* Do you still talk to your first best friends?
Once in a while. We're not that close anymore.. kinda wish we were

* What toy could you most often be found playing with?
My Little Ponies! (I'm still a collector)

* What games did you like to play?
Baseball, checkers, and oh me and few friends used to always pretend we were power rangers LOL

* Did you have a baby-sitter?
No, I stayed with my grandparents instead

* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid?
You mean like running my battery powered 4-wheeler into the garage door? LOL otherwise, no

* How else did you enjoy spending your time?
Playing outside in the mud, coloring, or riding my bike

* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you?
Nope.. we went camping though.

* What was your favorite vacation, as a child?
We didn't vacation

* Did you every bury a time capsule?
Yes, my first grade class did. we were suppose to dig it up before graduating high school. No one could remember where it was. It remains buried to this day

* Did you move away from where you grew up?
YES! well I'm still in NS but I'm MUCH closer to civilization LOL

* What do you wish you could have changed?
I don't know. Honestly...

* Did you have any pets?
I had a kitten when I was 5 (killed by a car). A poodle for 16 years (had cancer had to put her down RIP Candy)

* What was your favorite christmas present?
PJ Sparkles

*What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble?
Swearing or hitting my little sister

TheMaidOfAstolat

* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up? - Cumming, GA (just north of Atlanta)

* What was the name of the street you grew up on? Whispering Woods Drive

* Do you still talk to your first best friends? Yes!

* What toy could you most often be found playing with? Legos, TMNT, Barbies, Nintendo

* What games did you like to play? Baseball, Racing our bikes (got hurt a lot doing that, lol), and Nintendo

* Did you have a baby-sitter? Nope....I was lucky.

* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid? Does flipping over the handlebars of a bike count? It hurt like Hell and I still have scars.

* How else did you enjoy spending your time? Playing, watching some tv (usually History or PBS), reading

* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you? Nope...hardly ever went on vacation...just wasn't lucky enough to do that.

* What was your favorite vacation, as a child? We di go to the beach a few times...but I wouldn't call being sucked out by the current and almost downed fun, lol.

* Did you every bury a time capsule? Nope...but I should have.

* Did you move away from where you grew up? Nope...still live about 10 miles from there.

* What do you wish you could have changed? Nothing...I enjoyed my childhood. Teen years are a different story, but I couldn't change then even if I wanted to.

* Did you have any pets? Always...at least 1 dog and 3 or more cats.

* What was your favorite christmas present? My bike! My first big kid mountain bike!

* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble? I didn't...I had the fear of God put in me.

TheMaidOfAstolat

whoops...double post. Sorry.

sweetiekayk

* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up?
Rosholt, Wisconsin I pretty sure it's on a map
Nelsonville, Wisconsin That might be harder to find

* What was the name of the street you grew up on?
Locust Rd, High St, Hwy A, Hwy 66, St Adelbert's Rd We moved alot

* Do you still talk to your first best friends?
Yes, we never really lost touch

* What toy could you most often be found playing with?
Barbies, cars and trucks, anything outside preferably in the mud

* What games did you like to play?
Again, anything outside preferably in the mud

* Did you have a baby-sitter?
Not really, my brothers and I were just left at home. So I guess my older brother who is only 3 years older than me

* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid?
I'm accident prone so I wouldn't call them freak accidents, although I am blamed for my little brother falling off the roof when he was 4....not my fault he dropped his hot dog and tried to catch it at the same time as the baseball. P.S. He was fine. (he's the freak accident one)

* How else did you enjoy spending your time?
Outside...swimming, biking, build forts

* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you?
Nope

* What was your favorite vacation, as a child?
My grandpa had a trailer at a lake in Northern Wisconsin. We went every summer and I miss those days

* Did you every bury a time capsule?
Nope

* Did you move away from where you grew up?
Yes, but moved back and now live 20 minutes away......I need to get out of here!

* What do you wish you could have changed?
Nothing

* Did you have any pets?
Too many to remember....we were stray collectors....including whatever snakes and lizards we managed to catch

* What was your favorite christmas present?
Don't have one

*What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble?
Never being home on time when I was a child.....this should have been an indicator to my parents that I would never be home by curfew as a teen, but parents never learn.