Did I mention I am sentimental? (Feel free to add your own!)

Oh the little joys of childhood!

I'm adding a few of mine to the list (disclaimer - they are pretty 80's and 90's driven but not all):
























-scoring tokens at Circus Pizza (even though you cheated and let your little brother help you smack all those crocodiles!)

-digging large holes in the backyard

-riding your bike down a steep grade with no hands

-learning how to french braid on Barbie

-jumping through the sprinkler and getting grass stuck all the way up your legs

-hanging upside down on the monkey bars

-"markering" in paint-with-water books

-playing school

-camping out in the backyard with your friends and staying up all night drinking Jolt and telling ghost stories

-sleeping on the bus on the way to school (oh to not have to drive in morning traffic!!!)

-buying mood rings at Claire's

-making sweet jumps at the sledding hill

-spinning the crap out of your friends on the tire swing

-view finders!

-getting treated to a box of Barnum's Animal Crackers for going grocery shopping with Mom

-trading stickers!!! (At 28, I still have my old sticker books!)

-setting up a lemonade stand in front of your house (and being tickled when when the mailman says all he's got on him is a buck - oh for JOY!)

-still playing out in the fresh snow well after dark (because the snow makes the sky look bright and red)

-library book sales, especially on "bag day"

-collecting pogs!

-sucking on giant candy cane sticks or gnawing till your tongue is raw on huge layered jawbreakers

-requesting Bette Midler songs on Radio Aahs (only Minnesota children will recall this!)

-Four Square, jump rope, and Hopscotch!

-making sweet forts out of blankets, pillows, and chairs

-spending hours ice skating and then wobbling back into the warming house to play knock hockey during drink breaks

-writing stories and drawing pictures with friends (maybe a girl thing!)

-going to see the Teddy Bear Band with your family (or Club Fun TV)

-carrying Pez dispensers around in your pocket like it was gold

-drawing pictures on the bulletin during church service (although, my brother still does this!)

-or how about getting away with sleeping in church - ha!

-finding a comfortable tree limb on which to sit and read

-wearing cheap, plastic costumes to go Trick or Treating

-mastering the game "Simon"

-spinning in circles as fast as you can to feel dizzy

-tape recording you and your friends being silly (this is the one I had)

-dumping your bulk stash of Legos on the floor - the sky's the limit!

-getting a PINK PANTHER POP with bubble gum eyes (and other treats) from the ice cream man!

-singing the entire Animaniacs song on the top of your lungs with your sibling(s)

-feeling like you're in heaven when you walk into KB Toy store

-playing neighborhood games like "Annie Annie Over", "London Bridge", "Hide and Seek", and "TV Tag"

-standing at the kiosk for over an hour at Target, playing the new Super Nintendo (and begging your mom to get it for Christmas!)

-sneaking around the house in December and finding said NES, feeling guilty and ecstatic at the same time

-riding on your dad's shoulders and shivering with a fear of heights, yet laughing with glee that you can touch the ceiling

-school supply shopping (I swear this will be the reason I have kids!) There is nothing better than a fresh box of Crans! (Crayons, for all you non-Midwesterners!)

-chewing an entire pack of Hubba Bubba at one time (or half a pack of Bubble Tape)

-BOOK IT!! (and scoring personal pan pizzas from Pizza Hut, plus a Land Before Time puppet!)

-lying under the Christmas tree and staring up at the lights

-playing Candy Land with the family (with real candy for the prize) on Sunday nights and eating stove-top-popped popcorn

-having tea parties using water and saltine crackers, and feeling it was pretty real since you didn't have to pretend to swallow

-sweeping under a large pine tree to make a "house"

-getting to lick the batter bowl (ok, so that's not exclusive to childhood...but being given the privilege to lick the bowl is!)

-flying my Rainbow Brite kite at the park

-saving the cereal marshmallows for last so that they get squishy and sweeten the milk

-earning AWANA bucks/shares and bringing home a bag full of bouncy balls, plastic bracelets, and tootsie rolls

-getting your mom to let you ride the carousel outside Red Owl grocery store

-being scared to tear the tag off the pillow after watching this

-rolling down a steep, grassy hill (and running back up to do it again!)

-devouring a 9-piece Chicken McNugget drenched in BBQ sauce (I can almost taste them - but am sadly done with them forever)

-Getting to "play Santa" by passing out all the presents at Christmas. Such an important job!

-laughing at everything, no holding back

-having Big Wheel races with the neighbor kids

-listening to Wee Sing tapes on your Walkman

-making intricate friendship bracelets and feeling so accomplished!

-fighting over the middle back seat and "round spoon" (this one's for you, Justin!)

-NO CABLE OR INTERNET!!! (love/hate of the worst kind)

-experimenting with baking and making up recipes with your friends (Oh, so cake needs leavening!)

-twirling unabashedly in a dress

-making (and wearing) dandelion crowns

-kiddie pools!!

-getting to bring a toy/stuffed animal everywhere you go

-having somebody cut up your pork chop/pancake/baked potato for you

-Pin the Tail on the Donkey

-playing "Don't Touch the Ground" in the basement, in the dark

-getting your hair braided at night so it's crimped in the morning

-cartoon lunch boxes, backpacks, notebooks, and folders

-library storytime

-getting to "eat over" at a friend's house (or a friend eating at your house)

-watching CBS Storybreak

-footy pajamas

-showering every other day (or every few days...)

-inviting your whole class to your birthday party

-playing dress-up and getting into your friend's mom's makeup

-coming home dirty every summer night

-being amazed by card tricks

-when a year seemed to last forever

-eating Spaghetti-O's for lunch and Pop Tarts for snacks

-wearing pigtails and ribbons

-writing real letters to pen pals who live all across the country

-being blissfully ignorant your family never had much money

-getting measured and seeing how much you've grown by comparing it to the last marking on the wall

-wearing clip-on ties or hook belts

-being so excited to go to the park that you skip the whole way there

-going on field trips to the nature center or science museum (especially when your mom chaperoned!)

-finding "secret passage ways" through your neighbors' yards