Childhood Nostalgia

Amanda Smith is the author of this guest post
I have a very large family including parents, siblings, and definitely my children as well as their children. We are all scattered across the western US and do not get to see each other often which can be quite intolerable.
I make an honest effort to keep in […]

It’s that time of the year again in many parts of the country – kids will be bringing home their report cards and presenting them to parents.
That should be bring up all kinds of memories which is why I’m putting this entry in the childhood nostalgia category.
We’ve seen the scene many times on sitcoms – […]

Most kids (parents, too!) love going to the amusement park. Why not give the kids one last summer blast by taking a family beach vacationat one of the greatNew Jersey attractions, the Morey’s Piers amusement park?
You may know that they have Radio Disney stars on Mondays throughout the summer,. But did you know that […]

It’s time for a trip down memory lane today. Do you remember when you were a kid getting ready for back to school time how much you loved to put color labels on everything?
It all seemed so much more organized and official if it had a label on it. I used to […]

I have been meaning to write this entry for a while. I wrote myself a note weeks ago after a trip to the store with a friend I and never got around to finishing the entry.
Here’s what happened. My friend and I were shopping at a department store and came across a display […]

Cadbury Creme Eggs - what a fun topic to discuss right before Easter! (I spelled it as “crème” and “cream” in the title so people will be sute to find it when they are searching online. The correct spelling of the product’s name is the former.)
I am putting this entry in the childhood […]

It’s funny how there items (as well as particular brands of items) that come and go as fads. Take watches, for example. Think back to when you were in high school or elementary school, what were the big brands that everyone had to have. I actually had an electronic Pac-Man watch in […]

Talk about childhood memories…for those of us who had video game console Intellivision in the 1980’s, we can relive the fun again with what we now consider crude graphics and effects, but at the time we thought were great and they were the best on the market.
Yesterday, I was using the Intellivision Lives cartridge for […]