Thirteen Things I Remember from Before I Was 5

1.  Dirt roads and stone roads. Oh, was it dusty to travel then if you weren't on the main roads!!!

2.  Having the telephone operator ring my grandma for me, and call up my mom and ask her if she knew I was on the phone.  Just like on the old Lassie show with Jeff and Gramps.

3. Watching the old Lassie show, the old one with Jeff and Gramps...lol, and having only 3 TV channels that came in, and only one of them came in very well. 

4. Watching silent movies on TV every Sunday afternoon with my dad, and he would read the words to me when they came on in those funny little boxes.

5. Making homemade ice-cream with the old crank ice-cream freezer.

6. My mom making me hide my eyes when a bra commercial came on TV...and it was a pencil drawing with no real people and "nothing" showing.

7. Seeing the first color television in our neighborhood, and when our family got our first "stereo," and we could listen to records!!! 

8.  Putting stickers on my attendance card at Sunday School, and my mom being the music teacher at Sunday School.

9. Crying my eyes out when my mom and dad went on a week long vacation and left us with my grandparents to take care of.  For some reason I thought they weren't ever going to come back. 

10. Eating baby pig food cause my dad told me how good it was and how much the little piggies loved it.  It was AWFUL!!!

11. Helping my mom with the Christmas and birthday cards, and mailing letters.  They were 3 cents without a message inside---you just tucked the flap in and put a 3 center on the envelope.  If you wrote more than just your signature, it was a message, and you had to seal the envelope and put a whoppingly expensive 4 cent stamp on it!

12. "Helping" my mom and grandmas play the piano, and singing songs for mom's parties with her sorority and other groups. 

13. Playing house with my sister and playing "pillow games" and "foot fights" with her in bed at night.

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