Has nostalgia hit you lately?

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Other day, some friends and I were discussing tea parties. One friend was talking about how she used to have these little tea parties with her friend, and how something happened at one party and her little tea set was all broken but a few pieces. This started me down the memory trail of life. I used to have tea parties, too, but with my dolls. There weren’t any girls near us when I was real little with which to have the tea parties. And my siblings were brothers, with one being older and the younger one almost five years younger than I was. We had streetlights on our little town road. So at night, several of us, including a cousin, my younger brother, and a friend would meet under the streetlights to shoot marbles. I was the only girl in the bunch, but I knew how to play marbles! We would have probably stayed out half the night if our parents or my cousin’s grandparents hadn’t been calling for us to come in to the house. We either played under the one at the neighbor’s house across the street from my house or at the light pole at our grandparents. Either way, we never got in enough marble games and now we are grown. I was definitely part tomboy when I was growing up. Not only did I love to play marbles with the boys; I loved playing basketball more than eating! I would often play all afternoon with a friend shooting hoops and Mother would have to call probably a dozen times. And, sometimes, she would have to tell the person it was time to go home so we could have a family meal. During the vegetable growing season, I used to join a bunch of teenagers and some adults that went on Saturday to a farm a few miles from us to work in the fields. We would hoe and chop okra in the early part of the season. And, later, we would pick the okra, peas, turnip greens, or whatever had to be picked. Sometimes we would help prepare the vegetables and help put them on the big trucks to go to the Farmer’s market. Although we got a little money for this work, it was more fun and play than anything else just to be with our friends having a good time. We all took our lunch and sat under the big shade trees and ate together. Lots of memories there! Do you like to look back on your life and enjoy the memories?