Here we go, seven!!! Seven childhood memories

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Like others I think I will share. It feels good to dredge some of this stuff up. 1. My grandmother on my mom's side always seemed to really love kids and was a lot of fun. I think she only visited when mom was losing a baby, but it does not overshadow the time that she came and I remember her letting me play in the water in the back yard. I made a huge mud hole and rolled in it. I must have been three. I do not remember her scolding me or anything. 2. A general and consistent memory I have is of the day after Thanksgiving or Christmas. On that day we ate whatever we wanted all day. I could have all the pie I wanted. Mom said her family doctor said it did not hurt to do that once in a while if we ate well the rest of the time. 3. I am four years older than my brother. I remember when he was born. I remember a lot of things. Dad got mom a box of chocolates in a plastic decorative box--it was pretty. Kids could not go up to the hospital rooms but I remember dad taking us to the grounds and mom waving down to my sister and me. When he came home from the hospital I remember the first time I got to hold him, how blue his eyes were and curly black hair. I sat almost perfectly still in the turquoise colored platform rocker. 4. I remember how beautiful my mom's french manicure nails were to me, a four year old. 5. Speaking of fingernails, when we would visit my grandparents grandma had a shoe box full of nail polish and manicure stuff we could use. It was kept behind the rocking chair in the front room. 6. It seems we were always given a giant peppermint stick at Christmas. In my memory it was about an inch in diameter and ten inches long. It lasted for a week it seems. 7. My mom did not really like my dad's family, but on occasion I could go spend a night there at their house. My grandma had a box full of little toys under the downstairs bed. I think they mostly came out of cereal boxes. She also let me play in the water one time when I had not brought a change of clothes. I had to wrap in blankets while my black and white checked dress with red trim and buttons dried on the line. I also learned about tiger lilies and played with roly polys (pill bugs) that I found at her house. I tend to be over the top, so I may tell another seven another time.