9 Responses to “I remember laughter”

  1. Adele says:

    Wow! I didn’t know you were in the Northridge Earthquake! That was pretty funny saying the room looked the same as it always did.

    Having lived in the San Francisco Bay area for 23 years and then moving back to Connecticut where we don’t have Earthquakes it took me a while to realize that I didn’t have to worry about putting glasses close to the edge of the shelf for fear they would be knocked out with tremors.

    You have a lot of wonderful memories to make you laugh. Laughing is the BEST medicine for me.

    Adele’s last blog post..Thunder Over the Wind

  2. Avatar photo sliloh says:

    Yeah, I thought we didn’t have to worry about earthquakes in Indiana either but a few months ago we had one! My very first night in California we were woke up by the Big Bear and Landers quakes. I was wondering why everyone was standing out in the parking lot 😉 The Northridge though, that was terrifying. We do have some wonderful memories.

  3. Miranda says:

    Yeah this post made me almost cry…I remember all those things too!! You forgot the best part about the hammock though…that all the little kiddies were being crazy with it and you were all “you better stop or that thing is gonna drop you on the ground” and then you and i were just sitting there, gently swaying…and the next thing we knew, *THUMP* we were on the ground. And how we totally just laid there for a minute, like, yep.

  4. Avatar photo sliloh says:

    Lol, yeah, we just laid there flat on the ground staring at the sky and didn’t say a word.

  5. Miranda says:

    Ah, irony…

    Do you remember the multitude of times I locked us out of our house on Blue Haven and I had to crawl through the doggy door to let us in?

  6. Avatar photo sliloh says:

    Ah yes, thank goodness for doggy doors 😉

  7. Melissa says:

    I remember my sister standing up for me and punching the bully in the stomach for calling me ‘unibrow’!

    I remember lying in bed trying (and failing) to blow up a balloon and having my mom tell me that if the air from the balloon rushed back into my lungs too fast they would pop! And I believed her.

    I remember my sister staying waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay late after school with me and then when we finally got back home mom making her call the cops back to tell them she hadn’t been abducted.

    I remember watching tons of births in our living room. Cat births, guinea pig births, rat births, rabbit births…

    I remember drawing monster’s feet to Ingrid’s house!

    I remember that every time I wanted to cross the street, Mom would spray it with the hose because the asphalt would be so hot. And heaven forbid I put on shoes!

    I remember walking halfway to school before realizing I wasn’t wearing my shoes… and then Mandy was angry ’cause we had to walk aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall the way back home to get them.

  8. Avatar photo sliloh says:

    lol, I totally don’t remember the balloon one. And a couple of our stuffy neighbors acted like we were taggers out there with our sidewalk chalk. That was so strange. I remember Melissa getting student of the month and being so proud like it was your lifelong dream 😉 I remember playing softball in the middle of the road with all the neighbor kids. I remember kids unplugging the bouncy house at your birthday party.

  9. Melissa says:

    Haha I remember that too! Except the playing softball. I bet I didn’t participate. I’m not very actively inclined.

    But I do remember getting student of the month and being totally stoked. Clearly four-year-old me was easy to please.

    That bouncy house thing was crazy. You kept having to pull its head out of the palm tree whenever they unplugged it.

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