My mother holding me, and singing..."I'd rather be blue, thinking of you. I'd rather be blue over you...then be happy, with somebody else" and "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are gray. You'll never know Kathryn, how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away."
Kathryn King, Columbia, S.C.
- Tuesday, February 23, 1999 at 10:39:07 (PST)
I was at the beach and fell face first into the water. I remember feeling the salt water stinging my eyes. I must have been no more than two.
Dawn195840
- Tuesday, February 23, 1999 at 09:07:08 (PST)
My Grandfather taking me and my sister to a park and having a picnic lunch with us. He gave me pudding in a cup. I couldn't have been more then two.
Becki
- Tuesday, February 23, 1999 at 08:29:47 (PST)
Putting on old 45's at my Grandma's house and singing songs like "Go Away Little Girl" and "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" with my Aunts.
Dawn
- Monday, February 22, 1999 at 17:55:28 (PST)
i was 3 at the time. no i did not tell any one this. yes this is what i remenber of him not his face!
mary green
- Monday, February 22, 1999 at 09:13:34 (PST)
i remenber my father in bed. he seemed sick i think, he said"go get your mother!". i dont remenber seeing him befor!.
mary green
- Monday, February 22, 1999 at 09:10:49 (PST)
Riding in a wooden stroller with beads in the front, down the sidewalk on 52nd street toward Kenwood, going bump,,,,bump,,,,,,bump over the cracks in the sidewalk. I would have been around 2. Certain it's accurate and told it to my family several times.
Sue C
- Sunday, February 21, 1999 at 23:03:49 (PST)
goat eating my dress at the zoo
tonya
- Sunday, February 21, 1999 at 19:46:54 (PST)
I got a bottle of baby powder and shook it all over my little brother, myself and his bed. He looked like a ghost and my parents laughed. I was maybe 4 or 5. I have not told it many times, but have heard it told and seen pictures my dad took of the incident. Sometimes I wonder if I've made this "memory" from hearing the story, but it seems so vivid.
D. Horton
- Sunday, February 21, 1999 at 09:16:47 (PST)
MAKING MUD PIES WITH COUSINS AND ONE ATE IT , BLAGH!
CAROL
- Sunday, February 21, 1999 at 04:10:24 (PST)
I REMEMBER BEING AWAY ON VACATION, I WAS ABOUT 5. I HAD A HIGH FEVER AND WAS ACTING LIKE A MONKEY IN THE DOCTORS OFFICE.
CAROL
- Sunday, February 21, 1999 at 04:08:43 (PST)
I remember throwing a Beatles record with my brother like a frisbee and having it hit a wall and smash into many pieces. I was six years old and have told the story many tim
Patrick
- Saturday, February 20, 1999 at 13:17:50 (PST)
I remember throwing a Beatles record with my brother like a frisbee with my brother and having it hit a wall and smash into many pieces. I was six years old and have told the story many ti
Patrick
- Saturday, February 20, 1999 at 13:16:28 (PST)
I was two and I remembered being in the hospital to remove a cyst from my foot. My mother was reading the gingerbread man to me so that I would sleep. I did, but woke up just when she left and I cried and cried. I remember the red gingerbread man on the book, I wish I could find it
Vickie
- Saturday, February 20, 1999 at 11:32:29 (PST)
I was in Hubert Humphrey's arms during his presidential campaign in 1968. My mother looked like she was ready to faint from excitement.
Rebecca
- Saturday, February 20, 1999 at 11:12:49 (PST)
I was 2 when I remember standing alone at the top of my long steep driveway and watching my new silly putty roll down to the bottom. I wasn't allowed to go down by myself.
jennifer
- Saturday, February 20, 1999 at 11:10:51 (PST)
Standing, resting my head on my mom's lap and her stroking my hair. She was visiting with a neighbor. I was about three. I've never told the memory out loud, but it's very special to me.
Mary E. O'Shields
- Saturday, February 20, 1999 at 07:22:48 (PST)
I was 2. I was standing next to my Great aunt theresa in our kitchen and my mom and dad entered the room with my brother wrapped in a blanket. They had just returned from the hospital, but not from his birth, he had had surgery to fix a blocked bowel. I've retold it many times. My mother remembers it well.
Tom Brehmer
- Friday, February 19, 1999 at 20:40:02 (PST)
sitting on my back porch eating watermelon
sweets
- Friday, February 19, 1999 at 19:49:38 (PST)
when i was very very small, i remember having a "yellow blanket" that played with to help me fall asleep. i ran the cool satton edges between my fingers and my toes. i couldn't sleep without it!
amanda pullium
- Friday, February 19, 1999 at 19:47:45 (PST)
Cracking open a log in autumn and looking at the slimy bugs crawl in and out of it
Emma Dumont
- Thursday, February 18, 1999 at 18:49:58 (PST)
living next door to my grandparents and watching my grandmoher dong housework. ..my baby brother falling into a well and hanging on until i could get help. he was dressed in white. relatives filling up our little house on a visit and being very loud and boisterous and scaring me.
FESydney
- Thursday, February 18, 1999 at 16:47:30 (PST)
Crawling on my Da's big desk and knocking over the ink bottle. Watching it ooze over a big orange dictionary.
Ande Smith
- Thursday, February 18, 1999 at 15:47:46 (PST)
My mothers constant love
Allison
- Thursday, February 18, 1999 at 15:16:18 (PST)
I think that little girl was Tanya Tucker!! Am I right? Whom may I be talking to?
Kendra Shoffstall
- Thursday, February 18, 1999 at 05:26:54 (PST)
My greatgrandfathers death I remember seeing him in the livingroom in his casket. I remember wondering why everyone was watching him sleep. When I later grew up and asked my greataunt about the memory she told me that I couldnt possibly remember that because I was only 6 months old at the time.
terra
- Wednesday, February 17, 1999 at 23:03:24 (PST)
Looking in the middle bedroom from the hallway. I was staring at my great grandmother who was lying in the bed sick while my grandmother and aunt spoke with her. I don't remember ever seeing her again. I was not in school yet, so I imagine that my age had to be three or four.
JoMic
- Wednesday, February 17, 1999 at 18:03:44 (PST)
I remember sitting on my first horse, Patches; he was brown and white and very big. But I wasn't afraid, I was too busy grinning ear to ear at my family. I was 5. I have not told this many times. I am sure it's accurate. There is a picture- but I haven't seen it for many years.
Rachel Johnson
- Wednesday, February 17, 1999 at 15:53:03 (PST)
i was four years old living in ky. and had a big white house and a black maid ,and i dumped the carrage over that my new brother was in.
mary lou
- Wednesday, February 17, 1999 at 06:49:45 (PST)
I remember being in the hospital after I had my tonsils out at age 4. I cried and cried in the dark all night long because I wanted my parents and I thought they had left me forever.
Chris
- Tuesday, February 16, 1999 at 19:15:11 (PST)
I remember waiting for my younger brother to be born. He is three years younger.
Beth
- Tuesday, February 16, 1999 at 15:11:43 (PST)
I was 6, and I wanted to send Valentine's cards, lots of them, to Jolanda, a daughter of one of my mom's childhood friends back in Holland. I was in kindergarten at the time, 1973. I first met Jolanda, and her husband, 21 years later, January 1994.
Payter Versteegen
- Tuesday, February 16, 1999 at 10:47:30 (PST)
walking with my grandfather to this store and sitting with him while he chatted with the other men sitting on the bench outside the store, The owner would give me a drink called grapette
Lovetta Moss
- Tuesday, February 16, 1999 at 04:35:09 (PST)
The Columbus Day storm is one of my earliest memories. As we sat around the table, my eight siblings and I, I looked down the long table at my father, sitting with his back to the wall and outside window. A big oak tree branch crashed through the window and the glass sprayed across the table and floor. This was a dream I had, the window was really only hit by a branch and didn't even break.I was four.
LEESA
- Monday, February 15, 1999 at 22:19:41 (PST)
Trying to stick a knife in an electrical outlet and my mother slapping my hand really hard
sheila
- Monday, February 15, 1999 at 17:03:38 (PST)
I had just learned how to walk, and had not quite perfected the running part. I ran down the hall into my Mom and Dad's bedroom, and went for the turn in the door. I hit my mouth on the door jam, and just felt a tingle rush down my body. My Dad picked me up, as blood came gushing out of my mouth, and I began to throw up. It was an awful experiance.
Lauren F.
- Monday, February 15, 1999 at 11:21:56 (PST)
Chasing the "shadow man" down the sidewalk.
Michael R.
- Monday, February 15, 1999 at 10:19:27 (PST)
My earliest memory is when me and my sister were in the grocery store and her and i were running down the hallways and she tripped and ran into a tomato soup display
Jenny Schaffer
- Monday, February 15, 1999 at 06:06:41 (PST)
Falling down the basement stairs
Jessica Winn
- Monday, February 15, 1999 at 06:04:12 (PST)
One night I was in my crib. I had to pee really really bad but I couldn't get out. I cried as loud as I could but no one came. So I figured out how to open a latch to the crib to raise up the railing. I climbed out, still crying my lungs out, and walked to the door. I banged on the door for a good litte while crying. I pulled my diaper down so that I could be one step ahead when my parents came. I kept banging and crying but no one came. Finally my father came to the door to get me but I had already peed all over myself and on the floor. By the way, I'm 16.
Shell Johnson
- Sunday, February 14, 1999 at 08:37:25 (PST)
My home catching fire.I ran to tell my Mother. I thought she was going to slap me.anyway she sent me to a neighbors house to call my Dad.He owned a grocery store.My brother took the message as my Father was at the local school yard watching aballgame.The message was delivered to the school yard.The game stopped every one jumped in cars or trucks,and came to the house to help.There was three gates betweenthe main rqad and our house.they ran through all three gates.arrived and began to pour water onthe fire.they poured milk,garbage,slop.anything that was liquid.Put the fire out. only two rooms were without a roof.Then Dad went into the forest ,cut oak trees and made his own shingles.Then all the neighbors and their families came and put the shingles on the house and the women did the cookingfor the dinner for every one there.Why o Why arent neighbors like that these days?
MMgarvey
- Saturday, February 13, 1999 at 22:35:36 (PST)
I remember the sound of the German flying bombs the V2's. They were on their way to the harbour of Antwerp I was told later. I must have been a little over 2 years old.
staffie H
- Saturday, February 13, 1999 at 22:09:17 (PST)
When my younger sister was born I was 21 mos old. We were staying with my grandparents who took my older sister & me to some sort of day programme which was in a gymnasium. In my memory there is no ceiling & the orange door which I cried against had a round window 'way up. My mother corroborated this the first time I told her it a few years ago (I'm 40 now).
Sheila
- Saturday, February 13, 1999 at 20:11:09 (PST)
My earliest memory is the day my baby brother was brought home from the hospital a few days after his birth. I was four years old.
Linda Van Aken
- Saturday, February 13, 1999 at 17:01:39 (PST)
I was about 3 years old. I had gotten a little 2 wheeler bike for my 3rd birthday. I remember we lived behind my aunt & uncles house in a trailer. I Used to ride my bike around in circles on the patio next to our trailer. I remember my dad & uncle encouraging me because I could ride it without training wheels shortly after I got it.
Pattie B.
- Saturday, February 13, 1999 at 13:57:34 (PST)
I was about three or four years old, and living in an orphanage in Toledo.every Sat. night we'd go under the street in the tunnel to the a uditorium to watch movies. I would pee my pants and be sent back through that dark tunnell alone to my room. Sometimes I'd have trouble getting up the tunnel in the ice and snow.
Faith Breneman
- Saturday, February 13, 1999 at 12:56:22 (PST)
I was 6 and me, my sister, my brother, and my sisters friend Cassy were climbing on the roof of a 1 story high OAP Bingo hall, we then would jump off and my sister used to catch me, I thought I was old enough to jump off by myself so I told my sister to let me jump, she tried to convince me not to but I did and I sprained my ankle, since we weren't supposed to be doing this, I had to act like nothing hurt, my sister had to help by giving me a piggy back ride. I have told this many times, and yes it's accurate.
Aurora
- Saturday, February 13, 1999 at 11:50:14 (PST)
Adog jumping up at me when I was strapped into a pushchair.I was about 2. I have told it many times. Yes it is accurate.
Susan Byrne
- Saturday, February 13, 1999 at 10:35:34 (PST)
my winnie the pooh blanket
Nikki
- Friday, February 12, 1999 at 21:53:54 (PST)
Being on my great-grandfathers boat in a bay in new jersey. I was told I jumped into the bay , although i dont remember jumping I do remember being in a life jacket just before I jumped.
Richard Christopher Schlichting IV
- Friday, February 12, 1999 at 14:18:25 (PST)
Getting spanked by my oldest brother when I couldn't fall asleep for a nap. He was about 16 and showing off for a friend by saying "Look at her, she's crying before I even touch her." I was about four, too old for naps.
Kathy
- Thursday, February 11, 1999 at 17:57:48 (PST)
when i was 3, i was dropped on my head
Katrina Springer
- Thursday, February 11, 1999 at 08:12:12 (PST)
going to hospital and screaming when Mum left me there. The nursing sister shouted at me to 'be quiet' and used my full name. I had never heard it in full before. I was 3.
Leigh Maddox
- Thursday, February 11, 1999 at 07:10:14 (PST)
I remember going for a walk near a lake with my Mom and Dad, then up a path throw the trees. I remember that it was a beautiful warm day. When I got older I realized it was a park not too far from our my house. When we returned home and that day a friend of my parent's painted my picture while I stood in the greenhouse holding a small bouquet of flowers. I still have the painting. It was shortly before my third birthday.
L. George
- Wednesday, February 10, 1999 at 22:18:06 (PST)
My earliest memory was when I was four years old. My parents brought home a new baby sister, and I was devastated!!
Karen Hardy
- Wednesday, February 10, 1999 at 20:31:40 (PST)
I was around three. I remember by father carrying me as he, my mother, and my five-year old sister were running back to the house after being caught out in the cotton field by a fast-approaching thunderstorm. I thought it was a game and urged my father to run faster with me. He became very angry and threatened to spank me. I remember it vividly.
C. Jackson
- Wednesday, February 10, 1999 at 14:40:58 (PST)
I must be slow. My earliest memory comes from when I was around 4 years old. My family moved several times when I was young and the first place that I can remember living had a little shed (we call them storage houses today, but this was a shed) behind it. Behind the shed sitting on another street was a large house that I thought was a mansion with rich people living in it. I've been back as an adult and the house is large but not a mansion. One day the people who lived there had their grandson to visit and he played with me. The grandfather took us to the fire station to see the fire engine. I was playing with the rich! Also around that time I severely cut the bottom of my foot on some broken glass while playing around that shed and had to have several stitches. I still have a large scar on the bottom of my foot.
Randle Fenimore
- Wednesday, February 10, 1999 at 07:06:32 (PST)
I was 2 1/2 years and in Greely, CO. My mother took me to get a typhoid shot. I balked and refused to let the doc touch me. My mother and my brother sat with me on a fire escape, trying to talk me into taking the shot. I was promised a toy--a monkey that climbed a string--if I would take the shot. I wanted that toy so I let Dr. Weirsbach (I even remember his name) give me the needle. I have only told this a few times, only when a discussion with friends turns to early memories. I can still visualize the toy monkey and the fire escape just outside the doctors office.
Leigh Klotz
- Wednesday, February 10, 1999 at 04:27:39 (PST)
It was before I was 1 1/2 years old, my Great- GrandFather passed away. The cofin was brought to thier home, what I remembered most was a net over the cofin, for years I thought my Great Grandfather was buried in a Bassinet. Just this last year I found out that he had a regular cofin, but there was a white net put over the cofin. Back 53 or so years ago they used to bring the relatives back home before they were buried.. I visited with my Uncle about this as it was bothering me about the Bassinet, he is the one that figured out that it was before I was 2 years old.
JJHudspeth@aol.com
- Tuesday, February 09, 1999 at 20:36:30 (PST)
I was 4 years old. My mother was sitting in a chair and I was standing between her legs. She had a hat on her lap with piece of paper in it. A lot of people were there. I was later told that I picked out a name for my younger sister who was not born yet, but was expecte soon.
dorothy McCormick
- Tuesday, February 09, 1999 at 18:31:03 (PST)
THE TASTE OF THIS INCREDIB FRUIT PUNCH THAT MY MOTHER GAVE ME IN MY BOTTLE. THIS MEMORY HAS STAYED WITH ME SINCE I WAS A CHILD. I AM NOW 34 YEARS OLD. MOM DOESN'T REMEMBER AND CAN'T RECALL WHAT KINDS OF THINGS SHE GAVE ME. I HAVE TRIED FOR YEARS TO FIND THIS DRINK.
Lynne Mierzwiak
- Tuesday, February 09, 1999 at 18:23:10 (PST)
being carried in a laundry basket by my mother,to and from the ringer washer and outdoor clothes line. I remember the smell of the clothes and the feel of the clothes-pins. I scn still feel my bare legs on the bottom of the basket. No, I haven't told this info. in years..I was about 20mos. old, verified by my Mother.
Vicky L. Marlette
- Tuesday, February 09, 1999 at 17:22:01 (PST)
Riding in the car, in my carseat with a steering wheel. We were on the way to the Drs. and I was pretending to turn the car around and go home. I was 2.
Kimber
- Tuesday, February 09, 1999 at 05:16:53 (PST)
I cracked an egg on the floor. I spilled a box of Rice Krispies. And I over fed the fish and it died.
Jamus McFly
- Monday, February 08, 1999 at 09:10:16 (PST)
My sister was hospitalized for a long time. I remember eating a cracker while mom and grandma talked in worried voices. I was two and a half. I tell this to a lot of people. I think it's accurate.
Lynn Ondercin
- Monday, February 08, 1999 at 06:43:40 (PST)
I remember my grandfather giving me a ride in his wheelchair and giving me some cheese. I don't remember how old I was, but he died before my 2nd birthday. Strangely enough, it is my only memory of my grandfather.
Ray Thomasson
- Sunday, February 07, 1999 at 21:11:04 (PST)
It was a very sunny day, with very white clouds. My brother and I were laying on the grass, in the back yard. He was 4 or 5. I must have been 2. He held a dandilion under my chin, and it reflected yellow on my chin from the reflection from the bright sun. He told me that this means, "you like butter. I have never told anyone about this. I have thought about this many times, and it is so vivid, it seems like it happened yesterday. I cann't remember yesterday but I can remember this clearly, from 59 years ago. Odd? I also think I can remember suckling on my mothers teet, but not really sure, and this seems more vague a memory.
AL YAGER
- Sunday, February 07, 1999 at 17:55:16 (PST)
An early memory of mine is of my little sister being a big pain in the butt.
aliceblues@aol.com
- Sunday, February 07, 1999 at 16:54:55 (PST)
When I was two years old my sister took me to the playground and I got hit in the head with a moving swing. I remember going to the hospital in an ambulance.
Alice Barrie
- Sunday, February 07, 1999 at 11:04:40 (PST)
My earliest memory was being sexually molested at 2yrs.old and it happening until age 12yrs the reason I know my age was 2yrs old because I lived at that place at 2yrs. MY family moved when I was still 2 .I also remember where it took place and it was summertime.It continued because it was a family friend.Come to think of it I have lots of memories from age 2yrs. Yes I have told this story and for the first time at age 21. I'm over it and know things like this really do happen in Life and at that age your not at fault!
Kitkatkix@aol.com
- Sunday, February 07, 1999 at 07:15:50 (PST)
When my father took me fishing with him..he threw me in the lake and said "sink or swim".. If it had not been for a total stranger who swam from the shore to get me, I would of drowned. I was about 4. No, I've not told this often, it isn't something one tells other people. God Yes, I'm sure its accurate..like it happened yesterday..
Not over it yet...
- Sunday, February 07, 1999 at 05:05:49 (PST)
I remember when I fell out of the carriage and landed on my head...I was very young. They told me I couldn't remember that because I was too young. But I do.
Jeanne Obie
- Saturday, February 06, 1999 at 23:07:18 (PST)
My earliest memory is visual and emotional only. I recall no sounds or tactile sensations. I lay on my back in my crib looking up and around myself. There were people facing toward me and crowded around the crib railings. I remember those I saw at the foot of my crib seemed very far away. Everyone's face was blank, but I felt safe and secure. Once I acquired language, I thought of them as my guardian angels. It was years later that I understood who these people were and what I was recalling. They were family. My grandparents and my parents were gazing down at me, the new baby. I would have been less than two weeks old.
Susan H.
- Saturday, February 06, 1999 at 00:19:00 (PST)
king kong smashing a dinosaur
greg kulz
- Friday, February 05, 1999 at 23:10:36 (PST)
I remember playing on the floor when my father came home from work and was carrying a canary cage with a yellow canary in it . I guess I was about three at the time. We had many years of birdsongs after that. The cat tried jumping off the sewing machine onto the birdcage a few times but failed to get the canary. Carl Anderson
Carl
- Friday, February 05, 1999 at 22:18:11 (PST)
I remember wandering off to the nearby schoolyard when I was only three. I went there to sit on the swings and it was nearly twilight before my family found me. My mom pinched me (hard) on my thigh. That hurt.
shell
- Thursday, February 04, 1999 at 16:16:16 (PST)
When I first got my dog, "Bear". I was 5 years old.
Mark Millard
- Thursday, February 04, 1999 at 08:59:06 (PST)
A stairway in a house welived in
Pauline Shumard
- Wednesday, February 03, 1999 at 21:25:51 (PST)
My earliest memory occurred during the period when my dad and I lived with my grandparents, right after my parents got divorced. I was around two years old, and it was my first Halloween. I dressed up as Big Bird (I loved him!!), and I was so proud because I was finally a big kid and got to go around and get candy. I remember what the jack-o-lanterns looked like on the steps in front of our house, where we walked down into the yard to take pictures. I'm sure we only went to a few houses, within a block or so, but I remember my grandparents showing me off proudly to their neighbors. I also remember being so totally excited before we left that I asked a million times if it was time to go, I ran around the house like a maniac, and was told I had to eat dinner first, but I was so wound up I could barely sit still.
Alena Davis
- Wednesday, February 03, 1999 at 21:12:11 (PST)
I was three. I was painting a mortarboard hat black for my "graduation" from nursery school into kindergarten. I felt very proud.
Karen
- Wednesday, February 03, 1999 at 12:32:55 (PST)
I remeber my brother and sister torturing me every time we went through a tunnel on the way to yosemite. They were telling me the tunnel monsters were going to get me.
Lara
- Wednesday, February 03, 1999 at 09:48:09 (PST)
I was two, and i killed a bug and ate it.
frank
- Wednesday, February 03, 1999 at 09:38:11 (PST)
Sitting in my stroller facing my little brother and sticking grape bubble gum in his eye.
Tabitha Lemons
- Wednesday, February 03, 1999 at 09:10:58 (PST)
My friend Tabitha Lemons. She has a crush on this guy named Chris and three other guys. She needed so much help. She fell in love with every guy she met.
AnnMarie
- Wednesday, February 03, 1999 at 09:10:15 (PST)
Meeting one of my best friends, Kelly
AnnMarie
- Wednesday, February 03, 1999 at 09:07:35 (PST)
I was three on my way to AlabAma with my grandfathe, we were on the airplane at night when i had to go to the bathroom. I remember walking down the isle in blue pajamas with built in feet.
David Klein
- Wednesday, February 03, 1999 at 08:59:27 (PST)
I have been playing basketball for 5 years now. I made the basketball team at my Junior High School both years i was here. The first year I made the team our basketball team came in 2nd place. The year before the team came in first. The second year i played we came in 1st place. Innes Lady Lions on TOP!!! I was so happy!!! i was 13 years of age and all of this is accurate. I have told the memory lots of times. It is my favortite memory of all. That was the first time i have ever won the Championship. InNeS lAdY lIoNs On Top!!!!!
Brittany
- Wednesday, February 03, 1999 at 08:10:28 (PST)
I went to King's Island. I was 11 years of age.I have told the memory many of times. i positive that this memory is very accurate.
Gennifer
- Wednesday, February 03, 1999 at 08:03:03 (PST)
3 no yes I was standing in front of my moms garden and I was still bald and have A picture of it in my baby book.
Krista
- Wednesday, February 03, 1999 at 07:32:02 (PST)
pooping in a cup.
amber brasiel
- Wednesday, February 03, 1999 at 07:31:01 (PST)
pooping under the table at age 13.
holley foster
- Wednesday, February 03, 1999 at 07:29:37 (PST)
quateka
- Wednesday, February 03, 1999 at 07:21:54 (PST)
being the youngest child, i recall attending quilting gatherings with my mother. i would sit there and watch the ladies of the contry side sew and share experiences from their farm.
dean
- Tuesday, February 02, 1999 at 20:08:47 (PST)
My sisters put me in front of a window with a bow on my head.
Charles,Griggs
- Tuesday, February 02, 1999 at 15:07:27 (PST)
Sitting under Christmas tree amid presents on sheet protecting living room rug from Christmas tree needles. Looking up at my paternal grandfather. My paternal grandfather had died by the time I was about three, I think. I have told the memory several times. I am not sure of its accuracy...
Patricia T. Boutilier
- Tuesday, February 02, 1999 at 12:56:09 (PST)
I can see two images from a trip to a wildlife park. I remember sitting in the backseat of the car feeling proud of myself because I was having such intelligent thoughts. I was shocked when I saw a photo of that day because I am wearing a nappy, haven't got very much hair and I look like I have just learned to stand. I think it is accurate because I also remember feeding the wallaby, as I am in the photo. I'm not completely sure because there are a couple of other things I 'remember' well, yet have since learned they didn't happen that way. Eg I remember throwing my teddy up in the air to celebrate because it was his birthday, and somehow I threw him backwards over my head into the fire. I had to run and get Mum to rescue him. She tells me she came in the room of her own accord and caught me dangling him in the fire.
Amanda
- Tuesday, February 02, 1999 at 06:04:19 (PST)
Crying for some reason to do with not getting my way with Mom. I'd stop crying when I thought my Dad was home to comfort me. When I realized it was't him yet I cried more. I was about 4.
Shelley
- Monday, February 01, 1999 at 16:12:17 (PST)
I remember my fifth birthday when I sent myself a birthday card because I thought no one cared.
micheal
- Monday, February 01, 1999 at 10:13:50 (PST)
Lying on the floor with a book and a small lamp in front of heavily curtained windows. I remember the tension of being in a wartime blackout.
Pat
- Monday, February 01, 1999 at 07:35:53 (PST)
I was 3, and I heard my my preschool teacher's stomach growl really loud. At the time my other teacher was standing behind a curtain making a noise with an object and we had to guess what the object was. It was foil.
ME
- Saturday, January 30, 1999 at 07:40:49 (PST)
I was 3 years old and I remember a nightmare where nurses were putting bandaids over my ears making them hurt (I'm sure I had an ear infection at the time).
Anna S.
- Friday, January 29, 1999 at 18:52:45 (PST)
Sitting by our aquarium for hours, pretending the fish were acting out the story I was telling. I was 4.
Tina Guerin
- Thursday, January 28, 1999 at 21:00:29 (PST)
Between one and two years old.
Lillian Heeney
- Thursday, January 28, 1999 at 16:48:05 (PST)
sitting in a wicker stroller with a red plaid wool cover on me; being bumped down the steps of our home by my sister and another person.
lillian heeney
- Thursday, January 28, 1999 at 16:44:27 (PST)
Lying in a hospital bed at night with my mother sitting next to me on a green vinyl chair.
Jennifer Stiens
- Thursday, January 28, 1999 at 11:19:14 (PST)
One day I woke up. I lived In bonny Doon CA. I was in the living room on my little mattress. There were super man things all around me. I loved superman. It was my 4th birthday.
Danny Morton-13
- Thursday, January 28, 1999 at 01:09:03 (PST)
My mother carrying my cello to my concert for me.
Nick Schevera
- Wednesday, January 27, 1999 at 15:50:23 (PST)
i remember when i was twelve my little cousin and me were at the house. i tried to set my little cousin's brother on fire. he told my mom and my mom started yelling at me. i felt really mad. i took my mother's keys and took off with her car.
Donneitta
- Wednesday, January 27, 1999 at 08:50:35 (PST)
my friend and i was riding a bike down a hill. we went off a cliff and we fell. i wrecked my bike and walked home. i came home, took my rollerblades, and went riding down the street and wrecked again. i decided to stay home after that.
shadrack
- Wednesday, January 27, 1999 at 08:47:14 (PST)
i remember going my fifth birthday party when my mom had strawberry everything. i threw up strawberry everything for days and can hardly stand strawberries to this day.
meg
- Wednesday, January 27, 1999 at 08:44:51 (PST)
it was me and one of my friends. we were chasing an icecream truck.the icecream man stopped and i ran into the back of it.
randy
- Wednesday, January 27, 1999 at 08:43:15 (PST)
i got caught in the clothesline while i was riding my bike. i got hung up in the clothesline.
mark
- Wednesday, January 27, 1999 at 08:41:33 (PST)
I remember my mother bribing my brother with the chance to wear underpants like Dads in an effort to get him toilet trained. I would have been 2 or 3.
Jodie
- Tuesday, January 26, 1999 at 23:14:19 (PST)
My earliest memory is at the age of five 'it was of the train ride to Cal. from Minn.,I don't even rember the snow.I do remember a feeling ,it was of comfort and safety and it had to do with and type of person,a strong masculin female with dark hair and a stocky build.I new I wasn't gay but I reciently found out that such a womew took care of me the 1st. year of my life,when my mom was very ill.
Vikky
- Tuesday, January 26, 1999 at 17:31:37 (PST)
The first time I read On The Road
coke and beenies
- Tuesday, January 26, 1999 at 12:47:22 (PST)
I was staying with my grandparents while my parents were on vacation. The night they came back, my grandpa was smoking his pipe, watching "The Planet of the Apes", and holding my sister on his lap. My parents walked in, and my mom handed me this blue teddy bear that looked like it was sleeping. My dad lifted me really high in the air and carried me around the house. I felt like I was flying. I was two years old.
JECmama
- Monday, January 25, 1999 at 13:50:49 (PST)
I was staying with my grandparents while my parents were on vacation. The night they came back, my grandpa was smoking his pipe, watching "The Planet of the Apes", and holding my sister on his lap. My parents walked in, and my mom handed me this blue teddy bear that looked like it was sleeping. My dad lifted me really high in the air and carried me around the house. I felt like I was flying.
JECmama
- Monday, January 25, 1999 at 13:48:53 (PST)
I was in the hospital for open heart surgery. A mean doctor came in and gave me a shot. I was afraid of him and he made me afraid of the shot. I was 4. I've hated shots ever since. I've told this memory a few times. I know it is accurate because I know I was operated on.
E. Crystal
- Monday, January 25, 1999 at 10:03:25 (PST)
when I was 2 years old, he remembered he really liked pacifiers. he climbed on top of the dish washing machine. in a cup there was a picture of a man on a horse. Then he stole 2 pasifiers out of the cup!!! his dad was mad too!!
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- Sunday, January 24, 1999 at 13:42:20 (PST)
Our neighbour would often keep her saddle on her front porch. I would sit on it and pretend I was riding a horse. A 2 yr old.
arlene
- Sunday, January 24, 1999 at 13:17:24 (PST)
Telling the pretty girl at the candy store that my older brother was making eyes at, not to give him any more free samples because he was a big, fat, pig!!! Yes, I've told it many times, and so has my brother.
Alice
- Sunday, January 24, 1999 at 10:22:19 (PST)
My earliest memory is when I was almost 2 and we were watching the progress of our new house being built.
vinegarsetc
- Sunday, January 24, 1999 at 09:13:23 (PST)
My older brother tearing my Raggedy Ann doll. I was two years old.
Rachel Jones
- Saturday, January 23, 1999 at 15:16:26 (PST)
I fell on the sink and busted my head.I was about 2 or 3.
Windy Griffin
- Saturday, January 23, 1999 at 12:02:27 (PST)
Seeing an airplane in the sky and the noise from its engines making me cry. I was about two.
Dana Robinson
- Friday, January 22, 1999 at 20:43:21 (PST)
my doll falling down the back porch wooden stairs and herhead breaking open..seeing into it an the mechanism that was behind her eyes to make them shut.
marie smiley
- Friday, January 22, 1999 at 12:40:48 (PST)
Falling off my tricycle on our sidewalk and skinning my knee. I still have the scar.
Dave Gomberg
- Friday, January 22, 1999 at 08:55:16 (PST)
Sliding down the stairs with my cousin...After bedtime...While my parents were having a party!!
Maggie Kolawski
- Friday, January 22, 1999 at 06:33:16 (PST)
Making a mud pie, than tasting it.
Phyllis Clemmons
- Thursday, January 21, 1999 at 13:15:38 (PST)
Making a mud pie, than tasting it. I was maybe six. I have not told it many times. Yes I'm sure it is accurate
Phyllis Clemmons
- Thursday, January 21, 1999 at 13:15:05 (PST)
I remember my mom holding and rocking me in a rocking chair when I was 2 years old.
Chet Todd
- Wednesday, January 20, 1999 at 15:52:36 (PST)
I was sitting in the back of our car watching my newborn sister in her yellow jumper.
Melissa
- Wednesday, January 20, 1999 at 15:49:04 (PST)
I was sitting in the back of our car watching my newborn sister in her yellow jumper.
Melissa
- Wednesday, January 20, 1999 at 15:48:56 (PST)
I was about 5, and I wanted to try ballet. But when I was there, I got scared and sat down on the floor and wouldn't get up until my mom came to get me.
Melody
- Wednesday, January 20, 1999 at 12:51:53 (PST)
The tulips on the curtains in my bedroom. I used to try to draw them on the wall with crayons cause I liked the pattern.
J M
- Tuesday, January 19, 1999 at 23:42:03 (PST)
My brother and I were throwing stones at a German mine on the beach in Jersey,Channel Islands. I think we wanted it to go "bang". There were Russian and Polish slaves,I could tell that they were dying, but could not understand whether they mattered.But it hurt. Skins of dogs and cats in the harbour,I don't remember seeing birds or mice-I was eating ants and liked the taste. 4 years old/no/absolutely!
Barry Guppy
- Tuesday, January 19, 1999 at 14:36:14 (PST)
sitting on the windowsill in my brothers room.
kba
- Tuesday, January 19, 1999 at 10:59:08 (PST)
remembering the homyks candy store,taking walks with ma to logan square, going to kiddy-land with uncle frank and ma. daddy and mom playing scrabble with gene and me every saturday morning. watching baseball games, watching gene play little league baseball. brian trungale, joey hora,my cousins
joy vargas
- Tuesday, January 19, 1999 at 10:54:31 (PST)
According to my mom, I was under two years old when I experienced climbing into my sister's crib in an apartment we lived in at the time. I still remember where each room was located in that apartment in the Bronx, NY.
Arnie
- Monday, January 18, 1999 at 13:14:30 (PST)
I remember crying hysterically because me mother made me wear a tie to preschool one day. I couldn't have been more than 4. At the time, my only thoughts were that I was a girl, and girls don't wear ties.
Meredith
- Sunday, January 17, 1999 at 17:55:50 (PST)
When I was in a beuty padget. I looked at my mom after I got my trophey, and I asked her where was my crown? I was about 6.
Jamie
- Sunday, January 17, 1999 at 17:15:12 (PST)
living in mexico with my brother and sister. next door was a french poodle dog named fifi.
carlos
- Sunday, January 17, 1999 at 14:04:52 (PST)
When i was 2 years old my grandfather had a cancer diagnosis. My dad was so sad he, one day, began to cry.It was the only day of my life i saw my dad crying. I remember i was so frustated, i began to cry too.
Cecilia vilches. From Buenos Aires - Argentina
- Saturday, January 16, 1999 at 13:04:16 (PST)
My earliest memory is from when I was around 6 months old. I mean actually. I was in the womb swimming around when this little snake attacked me. I pulled out my sword and killed it! I told my dad but he dosn't belive it. I think it's acurate.
Joe Kangeroom
- Saturday, January 16, 1999 at 11:56:23 (PST)
I was two. We were on vacation in France and I climbed up a jungle gym that seemed miles high. My mom was very proud of me.
Mox Fulder
- Friday, January 15, 1999 at 19:45:45 (PST)
I was 3. Looking at my youngest brother, in his crib, thinking he was "cooler" than my next to youngest brother.
Rob Fitzsimmons
- Friday, January 15, 1999 at 13:40:59 (PST)
LemonPie,my first stuffed animal,long ears,rabbit?
CAtherine Mittleman
- Thursday, January 14, 1999 at 12:02:49 (PST)
running away from home when i was si and sitting in the driveway with a lunchbox full of food.
James Hedrick
- Thursday, January 14, 1999 at 11:03:11 (PST)
I remember my 3rd birthday party, the year I got my Seasme Street playset. There are pictures of this party, but I remember things that aren't in the photos.
Aaron
- Wednesday, January 13, 1999 at 19:05:04 (PST)
When I was about two, my twin sister, older sister, older brother, mom, and step father went to Disney world and my twin sister got lost.
Morgan
- Wednesday, January 13, 1999 at 13:57:43 (PST)
My older sister went into labor at my cousins wedding.
Allie
- Wednesday, January 13, 1999 at 13:27:34 (PST)
When I was two, I remember riding on my father's shoulder, while he strided across a plowed field. Also, about this same time, I rememember what our back screen door looked like from down below, like I would have been on the first step of the landing. Our big yellow tabby cat came and went through a hole in the screen. I have not told this memory to very many people, because it rarely comes up in conversation. It's accurate, as I have verified it with my parents.
Donna Marshak
- Wednesday, January 13, 1999 at 12:53:35 (PST)
I was 5 years old and I ran away from home went up to the end of the road, realised no one was coming after me and ran back home crying and wanting my mum!!!
Sue Shoobridge
- Wednesday, January 13, 1999 at 03:42:32 (PST)
I remember when I was about 2, my family and I went to the zoo and I rode a camel who's name was Sammy. I remember telling him good-bye and petting him on his head. That was really fun.
Alicia Morris
- Tuesday, January 12, 1999 at 08:28:17 (PST)
I was in the mall, with my parents on either side, holding my hands. I must have been somewhere around 1 or 3. My parents were talking about money, I think, though they argued about it often and so that may be a story memory.
Katy
- Sunday, January 10, 1999 at 16:35:34 (PST)
I remember getting a shot at the doctors office when I was really young. I was maybe 1 year old. I can recall the color dress my sister was wearing and how loud I was crying.
Donald
- Sunday, January 10, 1999 at 08:22:13 (PST)
I was 3 years old. I remember the face and hands of doctor who was about to remove my tonsils. He put a balloon in my face. I am quite sure, this is not an accurate memory, but to me it is still a very real one.
Barbara
- Sunday, January 10, 1999 at 02:33:27 (PST)
fell off the bed when I was 3
angela
- Saturday, January 09, 1999 at 10:40:09 (PST)
me jumping on a waterbed because i thought it would be as fun as jumping on my bed. I fell off and had to get stitches on my head.
Ashley
- Friday, January 08, 1999 at 16:49:05 (PST)
I am sure my memory at age 11 months to a year is accurate, however, I have been told it is not possible to remember an event that early.
Harriet
- Friday, January 08, 1999 at 10:38:31 (PST)
My earliest memory took place when I was about 1 year old. Is this possible.
Harriet
- Friday, January 08, 1999 at 10:36:39 (PST)
I was in kindergarten and I left my lunch at home with my precious tuna fish sandwich in it. I remember crying and the teacher calling home and then her escorting me to the front of the school. It was pouring rain, or maybe I was just crying hysterically,I watched as dad drove up in his big blue truck and gave me my tuna fish sandwich. thanks dad. I tell this story to my children and they love it. I believe it is accurate, but would sure like to go back to check the accuracy!
Jeff Levine
- Thursday, January 07, 1999 at 19:07:40 (PST)
My eariest memory goes back to the mid-twenties. My parents were Greek immigrants and decided to visit Greece. i remember being in lower class area. I sneaked up a few flights and peaked into a first class dining room and was awed by the luxury and food that I beheld. I have never forgotten that sight. I also have a few dim memories of life in Greece. I was 6-7 years old. Now 81, I have many memories.
Andrew Bonatakis
- Thursday, January 07, 1999 at 11:28:33 (PST)
I remember being chastised, maybe spanked, for trying to open the "forbidden" door that lead down to the cellar. There was something on the doorknob that helped keep me from being able to open it. I must have been no older than four. I had a teddy bear in my arms at the time. I have retold it about five times. I am sure it is accurate.
Vivian Mills
- Thursday, January 07, 1999 at 11:20:28 (PST)
I was about 3. I remember staring at a light, with running water in the backround.
lisa
- Thursday, January 07, 1999 at 09:30:09 (PST)
moving to a lot of places when i was vary little and always being a class clown and making friends that way. Ialso remember eveything
sarah
- Thursday, January 07, 1999 at 07:28:19 (PST)
being adoptid
sarah
- Thursday, January 07, 1999 at 07:23:34 (PST)
Sitting at the dinner table with no language yet but just a lot of noise coming out of me.
byron ward
- Wednesday, January 06, 1999 at 23:47:44 (PST)
I remember my first pair of dress shoes. I had just learned to walk. They were those patent leather mary janes with shiny bows on them. They were WAY too small for some reason and I remember being in a pharmacy and SCREAMING at the top of my lungs because my feet hurt and I didn't know how to say it or why they hurt. I got spanked. I know it sounds weird, but to this day I have always liked my shoes a little tight since I started wearing shoes regularly.
Christina 26
- Wednesday, January 06, 1999 at 22:48:30 (PST)
When I was real little, maybe 14 months, I remember watching my mom cook from my highchair, and her screaming because a rat ran into the kitchen from outside. I thought it was a cat. I haven't told the memory much to people, because it wasn't life altering or anything, but I'm fairly certain it is accurate because I was adopted as a child and only recently got in touch with my birth mother, who has confirmed the story. I never heard anyone tell it growing up because I was adopted
christina
- Wednesday, January 06, 1999 at 22:30:37 (PST)
