THINK BACK: hide n go seek at dusk red light, green light playing kickball til your porch light came on running thru the sprinkler happy meals wait.. saturday morning cartoons, power rangers, rugrats, doug, or who could forget legends of the hidden temple, global guts, double dare, nick and all that with kenan and kel. catching lightning bugs in a jar christmas morning your first day of school..ever. goodnight kisses climbing trees getting ice cream off the ice cream truck millions of mosquito bites and sticky fingers jumpin on the bed pillow fights runnin til you were out of breath laughing so hard ur stomach hurt rainy days at school meant playing "heads up 7up" in the classroom remember? koolaid was the drink of the summer giving your friends a ride on your handlebars when a quarter seemed like a fair allowance, and another quater, a miracle when any parent could discipline any kid, feed em, use em to carry groceries, and nobody, not even the kid, thought anything about it we feared principals and being grounded most. not drive-by shootings, gangs, and drugs. back to... when tears came with a scraped knee all decisions were made by "eeny-meeny-miney-mo" mistakes were fixed just by exclaiming "do over!" money issues were handled by the banker in Monopoly the worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties" no one was prettier than mom a foot of snow was a dream come true abilities were discovered by a "double dog dare" homework was collecting leaves |