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9 May 2015 · Leave a Comment

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Today’s post is to share my favorite childhood memory. It turns out I have many favorite memories and couldn’t pick only one! I have a lot of memories that stick out, both from childhood and from my teenage years. While I was going through all of the photos on my laptop (it took quite a while), I couldn’t pick just one single thing. There are so many things that helped shape who I am today so I’m just going to write briefly about the most significant ones here. Enjoy :)

When I was little, we lived in Birmingham, Alabama for a couple of years. I remember how our house was on a circular street that had a park with a playground in the middle of it. I remember playing in that park with our neighborhood friends and running around the neighborhood like wild children.

 
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Up until about 8th grade, we would go to Disney World once a year, sometime around Christmas or sometime before school started. We would stay with my dad’s old friends and their families in the cabins and go crazy. The park staff hated us. Apparently, you aren’t allowed to build bonfires on the sidewalks or scooter around the little cabin neighborhood. The dads used to take us to what I know for sure was at least Disney private property and might have even been government property and pretend we were on “The Lost Kids Trail”. A couple of dads would take a few of the kids before everyone else went to “The Lost Kids Trail” and would hide them in the woods while we started toward them. The Lost Kids Trail involved climbing over a fence and hiding in the woods for the first group. And the second group would be told a very scary story about lost kids (I think they were kidnapped?) while the first group would slowly creep towards the second group. Pretty scary, especially since this was at dusk/night and we were little children! Pretty sure we got kicked off the property by some cops too. Such a great influence for young children!
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Every year, my mom would make me and my brother dress is coordinating (or sometimes matching) outfits to take Christmas cards. She would always have these grand ideas in mind about taking these fabulous photos and my brother and I hated them. I mean how can you expect two siblings to sit still and pretend to like each other for hours on end while wearing matching clothes?! Because these planned picture taking events are so unsuccessful and unpleasant (we did them up until about the end of my high school career), we now just make sure to get pictures together at nice occasions to avoid any unpleasantness…

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When we were younger we used to go skiing in Aspen with our friends from Alabama. The parents would do their own thing while they stuck all the kids (maybe 12 of us?) with three ski instructors who would take care of us all day. They would take us down all the fun tree trails and teach us how to do the tricks. Basically, really cool babysitters that let us do just about anything we wanted. So awesome. I miss skiing! We always talk about going back but never do!

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We got Cosmo the year before we moved to Kentucky. She was named Cosmo because when we brought her home she ran into the house and lost her footing and slid across our floors, like Cosmo Kramer. She was the best and sweetest dog a girl could ever ask for and I miss her every day.
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This was our old house in Kentucky. We lived here for a year and a half before we moved back to Tampa again. It was my favorite house we’ve ever lived in. I had a window seat (which I took for granted, I miss it so much!). Our yard was huge and basically surrounded by woods. Our neighbors were a little ways away and I remember how my brother would just wake up really early and walk over to their house without telling my parents. My parents would just assume he was upstairs sleeping until the mom would call and ask if my mom knew he was over there! That’s why we got an alarm at our Tampa house… I also remember digging for clay with my brother and making things (Kentucky yards have clay, not soil). We would go on adventures in our backyard, build things out of firewood, and almost get frostbite when it would snow. Such fun! I want to go back one day since I haven’t been back since 5th grade. Louisville had such an impact on me; and, I remember partially vandalizing my closet before we left, writing “I hate moving” in sharpie. Whoops! :)
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Jumping forward a lot to freshman year of high school: Halloween edition. You see how cool I am? We threw a Harry Potter Halloween. Everyone dressed up as a character (I was Luna Lovegood) and we stole bamboo from someone’s yard to make wands. A hilarious time and looking back, I realize just how nerdy I am.
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Prom junior year was a hilarious time. I also loved my dress. It was the last dress I tried on after a tiring day of trying to find a dress and it was ‘the one’. It was also the first time I got my hair done for a special occasion. Plus my friend Caitlin had some rad lax muscles to show off. Could it get any better?
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Lacrosse basically made up my life from 5th grade until 12th grade. It is such a great sport. It takes a lot out of you physically and sometimes emotionally but it is incredibly worth it. I loved wearing these goggles and intimidating other teams. I also was proud to be captain and I think my favorite memory was winning our district championship my senior year. Such a great way to end my lacrosse career. I’m also still incredibly surprised that I didn’t get seriously injured while playing. Only minor injuries. And if you know me and how I played, you’ll know it was weird too.

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High school graduation was a big deal for me. It was my first step into semi-adulthood. I had to say goodbye to a lot of great friends. I got to celebrate all my hard work and accomplishments. I had to leave a school I had grown to like a lot, part with many favorite teachers, retire from my favorite sport, and go to a lot of parties! It’s a blur looking back, but a happy blur nonetheless.

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Fast forward to February 2014. Davidson doesn’t get much snow and I hadn’t seen a lot of it fora very long time. And February brought a lot more snow than normal. I got to build a snowman and enjoy a beautiful campus. Plus, I’ll never forget having to walk on an un-plowed hill up to class at 9:15. So there’s that! I also got to drive in snow for the first time which was a very scary experience!

 

Those are some of the memories from earlier. Some are from childhood, some are from when I was older. But they’re the ones that have stuck with me.

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