Sunday Social: The Good 'Ol Days - Childhood

  Shooooooot....joo know I'm leenkeeng up wit mah gurrrl Neely! 

 

 

Sportin' the 80s/90s "Claw Bang" aka "Satellite" 

  1. What do you miss most about being a kid?  Carefree life - I am happy with life right now - but there's nothing like the freedom of childhood.  

Being a kid and being dorky with a frisbee on my head....always making a fashion statement, right? 

Dance costumes clearly spurred my love of sequins... 

I miss you, Uncle Carl 

2. Did you have a nickname growing up? What was it? My elementary friends and high school friends still call my Jana Banana. My grannaw (grandmother) called me Jinga and the Apple of her eye. My daddy still calls me doll.
3. What was your favorite thing to do at recess?  Early childhood years, playing in the dirt making castles and playing church with nasty, dirty popsicle sticks we found outside and playing Barbies at recess.   Middle school -we walked the track that was on the playground and played pogs. 
4. What did you want to be when you grew up? Haha - I was a weirdo - I wanted to be a country singer. I do not currently enjoy the country music.  I also wanted to be a children's book author and pediatrician. In hindsight, all my career leanings came to fruition with being a first grade teacher.
5. What was your favorite toy? Oh mercy... I loved me some Polly Pockets. They were so much vastly light years better when we were kids. More choke-on-able but clearly better. Those big things they have now are NOT Polly Pockets. More like Polly Purses.   And of course....the ever popular, always timeless - Barbie! The important thing about Barbies was making them talk. 
6. What is the funniest thing you did as a kid that your parents still remind you about?  Have you met me?! I'm a hoot and a half! I did/do all kinds of funny things! My mom still tells about my third birthday party. I've always been quite the gregarious individual. (Gregarious- fond of the company of others; sociable) Anyway, my parents told me I could invite who I wanted. So I spent the weeks leading up to my birthday inviting every person I knew.... and all 100 people showed up to the local McDonald's. Yep. I like people. 

Get your fashionable, social butterfly on