Be patient – those days will be back before you know it.
I miss:
My mother.
Her mother.
Being able to eat anything and everything and never gain weight (of course I hated that at the time).
Being able to run and jump.
Dear fellow grownup kids, I double dog dare you to find that which is memorable and priceless in the present.
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I can’t resist a double dog dare! We sure do need to think of those priceless moments right now too. So often we only see their greatness once they’re gone.
Priceless moments:
Watching my children sleeping and also watching them enjoying all those things we enjoyed from our childhood. My children actually play outside most of the day when most of their friends are watching TV or playing video games.
Time with family playing board games
A date night with my hubby
A sunset at the beach
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I miss:
~ Outdoor swim team practice every morning at 9am, right up the road from the Sunbeam bread bakery
~ Lifeguarding at the public pool - damn, I was good with that whistle!
~ Masters of the Universe and Thundercats cartoons
~ Crushes on older guys (when “older” meant 14 to my 11 or 12)
~ Bright pink hi-top Chuck Taylor Converse All-Stars that only cost $12
~ Fried dough at community fairs
~ Making out with boys out back behind the Lutheran church
Thundercats HOOOO! Panthro, Liono, Cheatarah, those were some great characters. But you better watch out for Mumra! Thanks for reminding me rockle.
Glad to oblige. 
But really, you ought to thank “I Love The '80s Strikes Back,” because they reminded me.
I miss my Atari. Yeah, I know, you can buy the same games. You can buy like 10 of them for the Playstation for $10 or something, but its not the same without the crappy 80s style faux wood frame and the extremely easy too break and incredibly phallic “joysticks.”
Stretching childhood to include the beginning of college, I miss the days when a "busy" day included maybe 4 classes that were all over by mid-afternoon. I miss listening to Billy Joel and playing endless hours of cards with my roommate. And I miss the days when you could just walk into someone's apartment, act like you knew someone at the party and get free beer with very few questions asked.
Now what I enjoy is when I come home and my little 19 months old daughter runs up to me...but not too greet me. She likes to untie my shoes when I first walk in the door. ANd then she reaches up and unzips my coat. In the morning when i get out of the shower, if she sees me without socks on she runs to my drawer and gets them for me.Never being bored with anything I read.
Sledding.
Playing in the streets at dusk.
These days …
finding a book that isn’t boring (is the writing that much worse, or did I just develop better taste?)
gardening until I am so tired and sore and filthy that I have to get undressed in the mudroom, and then drinking an ice cold beer in a nice hot shower
just sitting in the back-yard after dark, talking
Building stuff with Construx
He-Man, Thunder Cats, Ninja Turtles, and Muppet Babies
I have found that everything I miss about my childhood I’ve been able to introduce my son to over the years. Ugh-except that doctor-playing thing…giggles. I’ve never really lost that inner child and it makes both of us much happier people. Now, my child is grown and when grandbabies come I’ll be ready to play all over again. I’m looking forward to hide and seek, water balloon fights and my favorite-climbing trees.