Simple thing from your childhood that makes you smile.

[seedcorn]

We all have things that make us happy (marriage, birth of children, etc), curious as we have a thread on coffee making because someone remembered something their parents did. So what simple thing that you learned from parents, G'parents make you smile that you passed it on to your kids or share with friends?

For me, home made biscuits (mom) and chocolate gravy (g'ma). Cousins still give me crap as I was considered her "favorite"....... jealous they are.

 

[thistlebloom]

Hiking and picking up a pocketful of pretty rocks.

We camped and hiked a lot when I was growing up and there was never one single simple little walk that mom failed to find an interesting rock to take home.

She showed me what "lucky" rocks were, a dark rock with a white band all the way around it. Those were special to find.

We did the hiking and camping with our kids and came home with lots of rocks too.
I don't think the boys are still rock hoarders but my sons GF finds heart shaped rocks and has them on her kitchen windowsill. She and I found a few last summer when we picnicked at a lake, and she brought me another at Christmas. They are also in my kitchen windowsill.
Very special.

I just remembered that I also have a large white fist sized rock that Kid#2 found on the beach when we were visiting my folks.
He was 3 and he picked it up to take home, but it was pretty heavy for his little hands, so he took his cap off and carried it in that.
He called it his fireball, because it has crystals embedded in it and sparkles in the light.
It has a permanent place on an end table today.

 

[Nyboy]

Have you ever researched what kind of rock fireball is ?

 

[Larisa]

I never took other people's things. So my mother taught me.
As a child I had a strange feature. I often find jewelry: rings, necklaces, brooches with sparkling stones. I always go and ask everyone who is lost? Of course, people did not take it very rarely. Usually, the first lady has got to say, "Yes, it's mine." When my mother learned then began to scold me because I did not showed my finding for her. But I stubbornly said, "You're taught not to take someone else's." I kept only the Czech necklace - I do not I found the owner.
Then, when I became a mother, I saw on the playground that my son always goes and asks, "Hey, who lost a shovel?" (Car, ball ...)

 

[thistlebloom]

Have you ever researched what kind of rock fireball is ?

I think it's granite. But, no, never researched it.

 

[Smart Red]

What brings a smile from my childhood? Walking to the library Friday night to find the librarian, a woman I loved, had selected some books for me. She picked really great books the classics from the adult section -- where I was not allowed to go -- enough to get me through the next week. I remember walking home under the stars in the city, something I would have to re-think carefully today.

Hey, I had a boring childhood unless you figure that books took me around the world and through the curtains of time.

 

[baymule]

Childhood memory--toddling behind my Daddy in his garden.

 

[digitS']

I'm not sure if this quite fits but Mom was a good baker but learning for myself to cook something on top of the stove was almost a survival instinct .

My cooking is very simple and I really strive to keep it that way. The more ingredients and techniques that need to come into play -- the more things that can go wrong!!

Mom's baking was first rate. The last couple of holidays, DW wore Mom's apron while doing her part in preparing the meals. She is absolutely committed to Mom's recipes for apple pie and dinner rolls, for example. Makes me smile. We haven't eaten Mom's cooking in right at 20 years but, then again ... I have.

Steve

 

[Nyboy]

During summer ice cold watermelon after dinner.