Summer Memories from my Childhood

We used to go to TN between three and four weeks in the summer. My mom would take my sister and I and my dad would come the last week we were there. We would always go to Fan Fair I am sure they call it something else now. I haven't been for years myself (My family and I go to WY instead) We also always went to Dollywood. I generally found these events boring. We would go to a lot of museums nothing ever changed year after year so it seemed. On the 4th of July there was a lot of fireworks and food. It too never changed year after year. We had what was called a picnic it was really a barbecue the third week of July where my father worked. It was boring. I did the summer reading program at the library and they were the fairs, street festivals, 4-H, vacation Bible school and when I got older my youth group always took on some type of summer project. I spent a lot of summer days floating around in our pool reading. and when I wasn't doing that or off with my friends I was usually out on the trail riding. When I was seven until about nine maybe we had a slip and slide, it threw water out of three different spots and I remember getting covered in mud and grass and not really having much fun with it. We would play in a tent in our yard, of coarse chase lighting bugs. Fishing, I hated, camping at the hunting cabins just because now that was fun. I don't remember playing with a hose or doing much roller skating though a hose does sound fun. What my favorite thing about summer was. It was summer and that meant I didn't have to go to school.

oh I love libraries too and like you I had fond memories of it, I remember when I was in grade school, the librarian was also my kindergarten teacher before she was transferred to that position and she was also my baptismal godmother and her name was Mrs.Reyes, during high school, the library was the coldest place in the school so we hang around there cause it 's so hot in my country, we were allowed to play chess and borrow a set just like any other book but no bringing it out, no betting and no cheering, I remember the librarian had a bell that she would ring when it was getting too noisy and everything would be quiet in an instant, till it gets noisier and noisier again so she would ring the bell again.

I remember spending summers at my granny's place and climbing trees, plucking guava's and eating them there only, we sued spend whole afternoons on trees or playing hide and seek. We also used to go for morning walks getting up at 4 a.m. and coming back by 8 a.m. and then again falling off asleep till ten so our elders used to scold us that whats the use of morning walk if you all are going to end up sleeping three hours again. But it was so much fun the walks and the games. and mostly lights used to go out in the late evenings due to power cuts so we sued to again play with friends just before going off to sleep and then sleep on the roof tops together, watching stars and telling ghost stories to scare the little ones and then everyone used to fight to not to sleep on the corner side only the oldest and bravest used to dare sleep on the corners. it was a huge pajama parties and we were all in all sixteen of us , with neighbor hood kids included. it was so much fun none of the elders knew who was sleeping where we used to just inform them and they were also so relaxed. It used to be a grand picnic for whole month. I miss those carefree days.

Besides the ice cream truck, and playing in the sprinkler, I remember playing on a blanket under the tree in my friend's front yard. I also would usually spend a week with my grandparents on a farm. We did not have a/c, and we would sit in the yard after dark at my home, even taking the black and white television outside to watch. At grandmas we played card games and dominos on the big porch. Summer was a great time for the family to go to the drive in movies as well.

I remember going down to the woods an the creek, and berry picking. Playing hide and seek at dusk, backyard BBQ's and catching fire flies at night.

strawberries!!!

Wow, those are good summer memories. And you let kids experience the joy of being in library in summer. I still remember my summer memories when I was a kid. Every summer we usually went to my grandmother's house in the province and it was a very great place. Since it's a province, of course it's not like a city and it's a very peaceful place especially at night. The only thins you'll hear are crickets. Me and my childhood playmates at that place would climb trees everyday and eat fruits at the top of the trees. We just always played. I miss my childhood summer.

For me yes the memories have two it is bad or not but the important is how we will overcome to it now.