Comments on: 296th Friday Blog Roundup

By: Mrs. D

Mrs. D — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:27:54 +0000

You do such a great job on the blog rollups… thank you for sharing your thoughts and encouraging others to get involved!

I would save Fluffy, the white-turned-brownish-gray-over-the-years stuffed animal. Fluffy came with me everywhere for a few years, and saw my fair share of fun moments, tantrums, and fights with my sister. I made my mom promise never to throw Fluffy away, so I think he now lives in my parents’ basement. Maybe it’s time to bring him to my house… he was always a great source of comfort.

I also think your pictures look wonderful… you are stunning!

By: a

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:46:00 +0000

Over and over this weekend, I am learning what a mean parent I am! We went to the zoo with a friend and got into a discussion about how many times to ride the carousel. I said we only ride it once, and was slightly confused that someone would need to plan how many times to ride. Then there was the train…my girl knows that until she no longer rides in the stroller, we don’t take the train ride. As I read about the birthday party for Cuddle Bumps (great name!), I thought…if the party is for an imaginary friend, we have imaginary food. End of story. I am, apparently, terribly mean.

I would keep my one stuffed animal – and I did (plus a whole box of others). It’s a small bear, named Fuzzy. I imagine my dad named him, since he was the source of all silly rhymes in our household, but my aunt gave him to me when I was born (so maybe she did the naming). {For reference: Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear/Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair/If Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair/Then Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?}

By: Bea

Bea — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:14:06 +0000

Cuddle… bumps… these stories have to come out at some sort of age-related milestone or other key life event in the future. Which stories for which event? That’s the hard part.

Thanks for another great roundup.

Bea

By: T Lee

T Lee — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:10:04 +0000

Hmm… I think I’d have to go with an outfit.
One particularly, impressively horrendous outfit.

It consisted of at t-shirt with three dolfins on it outlined in neon green, yellow, and pink, hot pink tights, a jean skirt, a black pleather vest and slouch boots, a neon green slide clip for the shirt (lord, remember those), and a super awesome hot pink scrunchie around my side ponytail.

I was about 10 (can we guess what decade I’m a child of?)…and I thought I was THE s#!t… eesh.
Clearly, I don’t wish I’d kept it to prove I had awesome fashion sense.
I wish I had it to remind myself how proud I was to be me. It really embodied how much I loved myself, and how very, very much I didn’t care what anybody else thought of me.

Two feelings I have to work very hard at some days…

By: Baby Smiling In Back Seat

Baby Smiling In Back Seat — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:06:46 +0000

Well, given that I didn’t bring any class pictures here to my grown-up house, and only one childhood outfit (a shirt from 6th grade that still fits — obviously it was far too big then), but many dolls and stuffed animals, the answer is clear. If I could only keep one it would be my first Cabbage Patch Kid.

By: Lori Lavender Luz

Lori Lavender Luz — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:53:45 +0000

I am crying.

That is all.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:42:52 +0000

The Cuddle twins party made me laugh…especially since my oldest (almost 4) informed me e days ago that although his birthday “isn’t until Halloween time” his bear’s birthday is Tuesday and that it would be “so naughty” not to have a party for him. I thought it was one of those random thoughts 3 year old’s have, but he’s talked about it multiple times the last few days, so looks like I’ll be having a Big Bear birthday.

If I had to save one thing from childhood, it would totally be my red lips telephone (just like the one DJ had on Full House!). I got it in 3rd grade and thought that thing made me impossibly cool. That phone carried me from the days where I used it to invite the girl next door over to play barbies to the day I left for college. oh the memories

By: HereWeGoAJen

HereWeGoAJen — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:34:01 +0000

I actually have all the toys I remember from my childhood that I really wanted to keep. I’ve been pulling out the age appropriate ones for Elizabeth lately. This is why I kept them.

The one I would most want is my doll, Christina. She was my first “grown-up doll” and simply perfect. I had lots of clothes for her (mostly baby clothes that my grandmother got me from garage sales that don’t actually fit properly). I learned how to french braid on her hair. And I have her up in my guest room closet, waiting.

By: SooSee

SooSee — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:50:23 +0000

Thanks for Lori’s link! Going over to read the blogs, and I’d love to be able and go back and keep my Cabbage Patch Kid, Roxanne. She was brunette like me, had pigtails, 2 front teeth, and the last time I saw her, had a dress I wore as a baby. I left her behind when I left home thinking I could just pick her up “later on”, and somewhere along the way, she never made it to my new home. And my Popple! Loved that one! Did I just add years to myself by mentioning Popples?!