Late Night Memories..

Well.. It's 12:58am, early early Thursday morning. Elizabeth and I tried to go to bed relatively early tonight.  We are usually "night owls" and are up this time anyway. We laid down tonight and Elizabeth was cold so she scooted over next to me and asked me to rub her back. When I picked up my hand, I noticed that it looked like a creepy shadowy hand because of the streetlights bleeding through the blinds. I asked her if she thought it looked creepy and she said "don't even bring that up it'll make me have nightmares." So, then we started talking about nightmares that we have had and the first nightmare we can remember having as children.  No my blog tonight isn't about nightmares. However, my first one had the Giant from Jack and the Beanstalk.. and a hand that was coming up from the foot of the bed to get me.. I remember screaming and my Mom turning on the lights and saving the night.. We were at a friend of her's house or something like that. After that I started thinking of other early childhood memories. It is funny the stuff you don't think about daily and how much of it you can remember when you think about it. 

I remember my mom surprising me at daycare on my 5th birthday. I didn't even known it was my birthday.. That was also the birthday where I found out that just because you are a year older doesn't mean that you will be any faster at running.. for some reason I thought I would be.. 

        I remember running in the woods with my mom and picking up pine cones, giving them to my mom and her turning them into house decorations.  

I remember having a red wagon and I knew if I put a cinderblock inside of it to sit on and plastic ores sticking out of the sides of it I could make it fly.. 

I remember sitting my grandparents' (Faircloth) little green john-boat while my grandmother and grandfather clammed in the salt marshes in cherry grove.  I remember it was winter and there was a yoo-hoo sitting on the seat in front of me that would whistle when the wind was blowing.  I remember the sky being over-cast.. I know for sure I remember this because no pictures of it exist. 

I remember going to watch my Aunt JuLayne play softball over at Hennifer park in Loris. 

I remember taking Karate for a time at Mr. Browns karate studio..

I remember being ecstatic about being able to watch cartoons especially...Transformers. 

I remember learning to swim at someone's house.

I remember going to the beach with my mom. 

I remember somewhere in our trailer my mom had a fish net with seashells and star fish on it as decorations. 

I remember cutting out pieces of construction paper and gluing them to make lemon and apple trees.. and my mom hung them on my bedroom wall.. 

I remember flying kites at the beach with my Papa Sheler.. 

I remember loving to ride in my Uncle Denis's car.. and looking at his model car collection of model's he actually put together. 

I remember watching Twin Peaks on TV.. and it scaring the crap out of me.. with it's over all creepiness.. 

I remember learning to ride my bike.. 

I remember Star Wars.. and ET.. those movies were on almost constantly.. 

Well.. there are so many more things I can remember but now I am getting tired.. I see how me talking about this quickly put my wife to sleep.. it is now doing the same to me.. Not that i think it is boring.. but it somehow makes me feel peaceful to think about it.. Horry County wasn't so bad..