JohnB
10/16/2011 9:13:00 PM
On Oct 16, 9:37 pm, marcus <marcus...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Oct 16, 3:40 pm, Donna <tom.r...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> > On Oct 16, 1:53 pm, "who?" <yourimageunre...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> > > My youngest brother got the mumps. I walked to second grade and was
> > > sent home instantly with the measles.
> > > Which did you get? What song did you play?
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> > What offbeat questions, but oh, well. Mumps here. My sister and I
> > had it together, and it's probably one of my earliest memories. I
> > remember us jumping up and down on the bed while repeating, "The
> > mumps... the mumps... the mumps." I can also hear "Goodbye Cruel
> > World" playing in the background as sunshine streamed into the room.
> > It amazes me that I can sometimes recall impressions from such an
> > early age.
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> > Speaking of very early memories, I can also recall my mom feeding me
> > baby food from a jar as we sat in a park on a blanket. And I can
> > remember grandpa pushing me in the baby swing, and also him getting
> > down on his knees with a smile and open arms, calling me by my first
> > and middle name. I remember being in my crib and looking at the
> > decorative plaques on the wall... seeing the cat jump over the moon
> > and the dish running away with the spoon. I remember my big sister
> > climbing into in the crib with me and making a tent with my blanket.
> > And I remember being in the car and going to a place that everyone
> > called Connecticut. Looking up at the window, I saw us whizzing by a
> > lot of green trees. What's astonishing to me is that I was under a
> > year old.
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> That is simply amazing that you can remember that early in life. I
> read an article recently stating that most people begin having a
> constant memory (that is they can remember something happening the day
> before etc) around age 4, whereas memories before that are not as
> clear. I have a hazy memory of my father hanging me over our big
> kitchen sink trying to get me to spit up one of his cigarettes that i
> had in my mouth. I had to be around 2 or so, as he quit smoking
> around then, and never smoked again. But, my first clear memory is
> age 4 when the woman next door had a baby. I remember running to her
> car as she and her husband came home with the newborn wrapped in a
> blanket. I'm still friends with her sister, and today that "newborn
> baby" is 57 years old, and runs a mid-wife clinic...how ironic.
I struggle to really remember anything for certain before I was about
eight in that I can remember things but have no idea when they
occurred. I do know - because my parents told me - that over one
Christmas when I was about four, I had measles leading up to Christmas
day and my sister, a year younger, had chicken pox. Then on Christmas
day, we swapped. Probably the first things we ever exchanged at
Christmas :-)