• The endless opportunities of where your life could take you.
  • Not having any responsibility.
  • Falling asleep somewhere and always ending up back in your bed.
  • Riding your bike everywhere.
  • Believing your parents were invincible.
  • Playing outside with your neighborhood friends.
  • Willingness to make friends.
  • Playing pretend.
  • Not worrying about the future.
  • Waking up and finding money in a glass on my nightstand and knowing the Tooth Fairy paid me a visit.
  • Knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that I had the prettiest mommy and the smartest dad in the whole wide world.
  • That small bit of fear when you spilled something on the rug or broke something expensive.
  • Taking pillows or mattresses, piling them up and surfing down the stairs with my friends.
  • Longer holidays.
  • Having endless energy!
  • Hanging with the boys.
  • Saturday morning cartoons.
  • Buying Back to School supplies.
  • Summers spent catching frogs, salamanders and bumblebees only to set them free right away.
  • Laying outside and staring up at the clouds, wondering why time moved so slowly.
  • Finding frog eggs.
  • Ice skating on the lake.
  • Fishing with my dad.
  • Going into the city with my mom.
feb 24 2020 ∞
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