The Diamond Challenge: Round 5 - Town Hall Meeting!

QOTD: What is your first memory of being very excited?

My response: probably when I got a Monchichi Monkey....I remember seeing it and just being super excited - I still to this day do not know what happened to it, but I carried that thing with me everywhere I went. If you don't know what they are here is a link you can copy & paste (http://alphamom.com/family-fun/party-play/blast-from-the-past-week-the-monchichi-monkey/).

WOW, this is a hard one! I guess I would say my first excited memory was when we were finaly able to get a dog!

QOTD: What is your first memory of being very excited?

My first memory of being very excited is the year that the cabbage patch kids were very popular (early 80s). They were nearly impossible to get but my sister and I both wanted one so badly for Christmas. We didn't have a lot of money growing up as my dad was a cake decorator/baker and my mom was a SAHM. We were excited Christmas morning when we each opened a Cabbage Patch Kid. We were VERY excited when we each opened a second CPK!!! I learned years later that my mom was on a waiting list at one store and in the meantime, she had found them at another store. She put them in layaway and when she was called and told she had two from the waiting list store, she and my dad decided to get us each two. I had a red haired little girl named Michelle and a preemie named Scotty Lew. My sister and I took those dolls everywhere with us.

I think my first exciting moment was when I received my first sewing machine when I was six.

QOTD: What is your first memory of being very excited?

When I got my first cat when I was 4 yrs old! x

I can't really remember, but it might be when I got a dog for my third birthday. I was super excited and I even got to name him. I made it up myself and I came up with Shermail. Don't know where it came from but at the age of 3 I was super happy about my choice.

QOTD: What is your first memory of being very excited?

This is a tough one, but the first one that comes to mind was when my grandparents took me to Disneyland. I have a relative (I am sure it is a distant relative, 3rd cousin twice removed type thing) who played in the orchestra and help compose It's a Small World. Anyway, we went to CA to visit his family & go to Disney of course. I was 6 or 7 at the time. I was so excited, they had a huge house (to me at least) with a pool we would swim in every day. We also went to Universal Studios & I certainly remember the backlot tour. It had Jaws & he comes up out of the water like he is going to eat you. Of ourse I had to be RIGHT there when it happened. I still have yet to see the movie.

QOTD Response:

I have a terrible memory myself, but I do recall being thrilled to get a doll called a "Baby Alive" when I was about six or seven.

OMG, I had one of those dolls too, and I just LOVED her!!

I drank too much in college and can't really remember stuff like that before High School. But when I was in 7th grade I went to Space Camp. I saved up for over a year to go with babysitting money and what not. I was so excited to go and it was the greatest experience as a kid. I wanted to be an astronaut all the way up until Chemistry in college and then realized it wasn't for me!

No one lost lbs from the Yellow team ? DANG !!!!
I lost 1.4 lbs and I did weigh myself in yesterday around 10am central time but I don't see my name in there ...Was I too late ?



QOTD Response : When I went abroad to study as an exchange student .. what memories ..loved it !

No one lost lbs from the Yellow team ? DANG !!!!
I lost 1.4 lbs and I did weigh myself in yesterday around 10am central time but I don't see my name in there ...Was I too late ?



QOTD Response : When I went abroad to study as an exchange student .. what memories ..loved it !

I think that chart is just for the Little Diamonds team.

QOTD: What is your first memory of being very excited?

I remember waking up on my 5th birthday so excited....My mom had always told me once I was 5 I could go to school (I am the youngest in my family and wanted so bad to go to school with my brothers and sister)....I distinctly remember waking up and crawling up to the top cupboard in our kitchen for an old metal lunchkit before my mom caught me....unfortunately, my birthday is in January, and my mom had to tell me I couldn't go to school until September. Excited...then bummed!

Sigh...if only my kids would get that excited for school....

I remember being so excited that we were going to have another baby in our family - I was 6.

I had a lot of exciting moments in my life. Actually I am not sure what my first one was, but i definitly know the moment, when i was most excited. It was on March 23rd 2005. This was the day when I was accepted for an exchange year in the US. I was so excited you can't believe, as this was my biggest dream for years! And on Sunday it will already be 6 years, that I left for my year abroud in Cincinnati! :-)

Have a nice week everyone! Keep shining diamonds!

Hey, that's a good one. I was an exchange student in the States (Oklahoma) in 2004/05. I was so freakin' happy when I got accepted. One of the best years of my life. I miss it so much! Actually, I'm going to add you. Always good to have friends on here who are in the same time zone as me.

I don't really know what the first exciting moment of my life was. I don't have that many memories of my childhood and when I do, I can't always place them. One exciting moment was when I started secondary school (i.e. 5th grade, at age 10). After 4th grade, all kids in Germany go to a new school, so I found myself in a classroom where I knew no one except for one girl who had also gone to my primary school (but we weren't that close). I quickly met who would be my best friend for the next few years, though. One of the things I remember bonding over with her was that she lived across the street from my grandmother.