Thursday, June 19, 2008
Nostalgia!
I need comments and answers on this one girls. Would you consider yourself to be nostalgic? Is there a time period in your life where you look back and remember, or look back and wonder "what if?". I tend to be nostalgic about my childhood years and growing up in Vancouver. I remember my friends, the things we did, etc... We even consider moving home sometimes and the idea of my kids going to the same school I went to and playing softball at the sames fields as I did, and going to the youth group with families that I remember...that all sounds cool to me. But are the memories better than the reality? If we went back, would those things really be that neat? I tend to think that us girls are more like this than our wonderful husbands. My husband tends to think that it's just me. C'mon girls, be honest with me....are you nostalgic?
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I am for sure! My brother and sister live in my hometown and some of my high school best friends have never moved off the street they grew up on. My high school classmates are teachers to my nieces and nephews. I sometimes long for that connection to the past and it makes me sad.
I am about early childhood. That's about it, though. It was in Southern Louisiana and the area is in pretty bad shape now.
I think it's so neat that you grew up in such a wonderful place and want to share that with your kids.
I am SO nostalgic, mainly about my childhood. I think it's because at the time I thought it was SO boring and didn't appreciate it as much as I should have (what kid does?) but in retrospect, it was so fun, nurturing and safe. I know now that we could never move back to my hometown and have our kids re-live the same experiences. It's changed wayy too much, sigh..Isn't that always the case?
PS. My hubby is not nostalgic AT ALL.
I actually loved being raised in International Falls Minnesota, the coldest spot in the nation. We enjoyed winter so much. My dad made a large ice skating rink in our yard and there was a huge one around the block in case there was more than half a dozen kids. We would stay out until we couldn't stand it anymore. We built igloos, had the best snowball fights, stuck our tongues on cold pipes (ONCE)and shoveled the sidewalks daily. The most fun was being pulled behind the car on sleds, skis,tubes etc. on the lake that was frozen over. Summer time we spent swatting mosquitoes. ha ha! Anyway great memories. Thanks for sharing One, hope I didn't bore ya. LOL Mom
I'm nothin' but nostalgic! but you already know that!
Hey Kim...I'm just as nostalgic as I know my Smith girlfriends are. I moved to Vancouver when I was 4 and lived there for 14 years, WSU another 4 and now Ashland is 12. I can't believe I've been in Ashland raising my family for 12 years but Vancouver feels like most of my life. We all had a great community between softball, CR and the families we were all connected through. I live in an incredible area which is so much better than Vancouver could ever be for me again but I'm trying my best to create that same feeling for my kids that I had when I was young. The neighborhood we chose to build in, the baseball community we love to be a part of and the church family we've been blessed with is giving my kids Vancouver but so much more. I'm sure you're doing the same thing with your family in Vegas. The nostalgia is in the heart and it goes wherever you go...keep creating it for your kids. And yes, my husband DOES NOT GET IT! He doesn't have much of a nostalgic bone in his body and nothing is sentimental. His mom just brought us all his baseball trophies and he chucked them in the garbage...I suppose I would now too but he didn't even look at them...men...gotta love them, especially when they roll their eyes as ours well up with fond memories of the past.
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