what's a fond memory of one or both of your parents when you were a little kid?
i miss my mom reading me bedtime stories and my dad teaching/coaching my soccer playing years. i miss both of them during christmas....those were some amazing times.
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That's so beautiful and wonderful question...
I loved the picnics near the beach we used to do in the summer. Once in a while my mom would make usually meatballs, potatoes, boiled eggs, fruits and dolmades (rice wrapped in grape leaves) and pack a large cloth for the floor and my dad would drive us all, my two sisters, sometimes cousins would come or we'd pick up my grandma... And then we'd usually carry a chair for her to sit.. and we'd spend the whole day in nature, under the trees, play, run, get dirty, laugh loudly, eat, rest under the shades, eat fruits... And a couple of hours before the sunset we'd pack and begin for the drive home.
Really thank you for this question. Those were something really beautiful to remember...
I loved the picnics near the beach we used to do in the summer. Once in a while my mom would make usually meatballs, potatoes, boiled eggs, fruits and dolmades (rice wrapped in grape leaves) and pack a large cloth for the floor and my dad would drive us all, my two sisters, sometimes cousins would come or we'd pick up my grandma... And then we'd usually carry a chair for her to sit.. and we'd spend the whole day in nature, under the trees, play, run, get dirty, laugh loudly, eat, rest under the shades, eat fruits... And a couple of hours before the sunset we'd pack and begin for the drive home.
Really thank you for this question. Those were something really beautiful to remember...
Starcrossed · 41-45, F
mindlessdrifter · M
beermeplease · M
@mindlessdrifter that also....living on the west coast we had some very memorable camping trips....east coast too when i lived in ontario for a short time
mindlessdrifter · M
@beermeplease I am glad you brought this topic up, we need the memories to focus on 😁
beermeplease · M
@mindlessdrifter thanks brother....i like to reflect on my past. my brother and i often do when we are having a few beers at the pub
Spoiledbrat · F
beermeplease · M
@Spoiledbrat same here 🤗
Jenny1234 · 51-55, F
I miss our frequent family vacations, family board game nights every Friday, going to work with my dad sometimes to his office and I’d pretend I was the secretary, those wonderful, endless summers at Washademoak lake, my mom’s baking; it was superb. Could go on for hours
bijouxbroussard · F
Lots of great memories with both of them.
Mom rode horses as a child. She wanted me to have that experience. There was a riding academy near the beach and she would rent a horse; we would ride, me sitting cradled in front of her, along the shore. I remember her telling me, "this is not like a bicycle, but is a living creature with whom you interact." She would always have a treat for the horse, and would pet and talk to it before and after our ride.
Mom rode horses as a child. She wanted me to have that experience. There was a riding academy near the beach and she would rent a horse; we would ride, me sitting cradled in front of her, along the shore. I remember her telling me, "this is not like a bicycle, but is a living creature with whom you interact." She would always have a treat for the horse, and would pet and talk to it before and after our ride.
Musicman · 61-69, M
When I was younger we had a boat. On Saturday nights in the summer we would go across the Potomac River to the Maryland side. There was a place there called Sandy Point. We would have dinner then listen to the live rock bands that played there. I really really enjoyed that.
Lilnonames · F
beermeplease · M
@Lilnonames your dad was a wise man and raised an amazing daughter 🤗
My Dad volunteering to be a chaperone with our first grade field trip to the Washington Park Zoo ten minutes SW of DownTown Portland in September 1976 when I was six years old, I still have the photograph my Dad took of me sitting on the edge of one of the pebble stone fountains near the entrance.
beermeplease · M
@NativePortlander1970 absolutely priceless 🤗
@beermeplease My Dad loved doing things like this with my older brothers and me, while my mother couldn't be bothered. My mother also loved to punish and ground me every time I turned around, so my Dad took me to movies to compensate, I must have seen Star Wars in the theater at least 35 times before Empire came out, our local cinema bought a copy and kept it on their 70mm big screen all the time on the weekends, it was always packed.