Recently, and for no good reason whatsoever, I found myself doing that thing that "older" people tend to do: reminiscing. And it all started over a bowl of popcorn.
"Do you know, when I was a kid, my mother used to make popcorn on the stove? In fact, she even had a 'popcorn pan'." (The camera pans to the blank stare on my daughter's face.) "Yeah, Mom, that's...interesting," she says. I went on to give her an entire history of the evolution of making popcorn. She was fascinated and hung on my every word. Not. :)
To this day, eating popcorn conjures up memories of high school basketball games and Disney's Sunday night movie. Isn't it funny how a food, or a smell, or a song can transport you back in time? I wonder what things will take my kids back to the "good 'ole days" when they are older.
What little things spark memories of your childhood?
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I can't think of any off the top of my head aside from eating pizza and watching tape-recorded episodes of Star Trek with my family every Sunday night after church. But I'll get back to you with a more "feeling" one :)
ReplyDeleteI also think I'm going to steal this and put it on Facebook-- the last question :)
ALSO, popcorn on the stove is AMAZING. So good. My brother still does it that way.