Things I miss...

[brittbritt914]

I miss squeeze-its...and orange tic-tacs...and thinking that the ninja turtles might really live in the sewer under Disney World. I miss having my whole family under one roof. I miss waking up early Christmas morning to make Christmas cards for my parents because they had posted the sign "Do not wake Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus before 8am." on their door. I miss spending so much time looking at kids books and magazines trying to figure out what they said and what the story was because I could not yet read. I miss building with legos and log cabin blocks with my brothers. I miss hiding under our house making clay mountains and thinking I could make a real brick out of water, clay, and one of those floor vents becuase I saw them make it on Reading Rainbow (well, not exactly like that). It never really worked. I miss coming home from school and doing cheers for my dog hunter because I wasn't a cheerleader but I knew he would watch me...and he did. I miss my old dog Hunter. I miss taking horsey-back rides on my dad's shoulders on the way to bed...then getting back up so he would do it again. I miss watching the home videos of my dad reading children's books he made for me because he was away for work. I miss playing with my barbies outside my house sitting on the icebox. I miss drawing pictures with crayons in our back yard trying to be like my mom while she sat outside doing her Bible study. I miss looking at a picture my sister drew and wishing I could draw like that. I miss being taught how to read by my mom and brother using a hooked-on-phonics book. I miss being a new big sister and being able to stop my little brother from crying by holding him in front of a mirror and calmly talking to him. I miss taking vacations with my whole family to our resort in the Florida keys in our big old van and piling pillows real high on the back seat so my head could touch the ceiling. I miss old friends sleeping over at our first house. I miss kids birthday parties we would have. I miss thinking Dustin was crazy for believing there was a crocodile in Martin Lake where we swam for my birthday party. I miss being timid because I still had the feeling that the big raft's shadow in the middle of the late was really a whale or a huge shark that just laid in the bottom of the lake but could strike at any moment. I miss the club houses my brother and I would make in our woods where we would play cards (war and go fish) and shawn would almost always cheat. Our club was complete with a homemade feather pen. I miss believing Shawn when we were in our club and I had to use the restroom badly. It started thundering but wasn't raining but shawn promised me it wasn't thunder, that it was a war going on and we just culd see it from where we were but if I were to run to the house they would see me and shoot. That was a tense moment in my life. Finally I ran to the bathroom so I wouldn't pee my pants but I was scared! I miss walking to the road with my older brother because he forgot to take out the trash again ad he was scared to go by himself at night. We would make sure to be load so to scare off the snakes and coyotes. I only found out later he was really scared because my dad had hid in the woods once and scared the crap out of him as he passed. I miss climbing our neighbors magnolia trees. I miss the time my brother told me I couldn't get down because there was a poisonous snake that would bite me in the tree. I miss sharing a room with my sister. We had bunk beds and at night she would turn the radio on on the top bunk. I would join her listening to the music until I fell asleep but I would first beg her to put on Rappin' Rabbit for me. I miss thinking I was the luckiest girl because when we were at the gas station my sister told me I could pick out whatever candy I wanted. I picked skittles. They have been one of my favorite candies ever since. I miss going to a circus and afterward riding an elephant with my brother. I missed all the road trips my family would take. I miss dressing my little brother up as a girl...another time we painted his whole face in red lipstick...we have pictures of both :) I miss wondering from which end hair and nails grew and how anything can grow for that matter...something coming from almost nothing...I'm still amazed.

I miss having merely the cares of a child.

~Britt