Mountainquilter

you are so right. I grew up on a farm also, seemed like summer with family was really long, now we make life too complicated.

My husband and I are looking to relocate, don't need this big house any longer. We both come from large familes, but don't seem most of them only for funerals or weddings. Not like it used to be with families.

Both still in our early 50's still not sure what we want to do when we grow up, only to simplify our lives as much as possible.

Thanks everyone for sharing.

Quilt Mom

I miss the freedom. I'm sorry my children did not grow up with the freedom to go out and not worry - about the drugs going down or the people in the park waiting for young ones to hurt. (Yes, I grew up in a small town, and they in a city.) It is a shame that our children/grandchildren can't do things unsupervised/unstructured. I think we learned a lot being responsible for ourselves. I remember being out the door by 6AM, and not coming home 'til Mom called for supper. What grand adventures we had!

Boston1954

Playing in the sand pile with my sister for hours on end, with ABSOLUTELY no responsibilities.

All my mother's (from scratch) dinners.

Watching episodes of Mister Ed, (for the first time)

Walking halfway down our street to wait for Dad to come home and getting a ride in the back of his work truck.

Dressing up for Halloween

(all of a sudden you make me wish I was 6 and not 56.)

EagarBeez

I miss when I was over my grandmothers and she had a stool. Whatever she made my grandfather for dinner, I always made a little and had my own pan to put it in. My grandmother always made it, but, she gave me to put in my pan. When my grandfather would sit down to eat, he always said mine was better. I think that had something to do with my interest in cooking.
I loved helping my mother cook and making x mas cookies
Family get togethers.
There are a whole bunch of different things I miss about childhood.
Maybe most, the innocence of it. Being protected by mom and dad

sewjean

I miss nothing about my childhood. I do miss my Mom, she passed in Jan 2001. I Love her so much

Grinster

Living in Duluth, Minnesota where Winter is Wonderful,ice skating, tobogganing, watching for my dad's boat (the SS Meteor and others) to come over the horizon and got thru the channel and swimming at Park Point during the summer.

Joan

I miss the summers and reading all morning in my p.j.s...

I miss playing house with my sister and my dog, Pansy...

And, I do miss those long lazy evenings when all the kids on the block would ride bikes up and down the street....

Oh, one more thing---my grandma lived in Illinois and we lived in California. I loved when she came to visit. She always wore purple from head to toe and had a twinkle in her eye. She always had projects for my sister and I to do--sewing, making bean mosaics, crocheting......and she LOVED to shop for fabric and always said the fabric in California was so much better than anything she could get at "home". She always took home a full suitcase (mostly purple, I might add--she didn't quilt but did make all of her clothes)

DebraK

somebody else making dinner everyday ;-)

sew_southern

I miss the freedom we had playing with friends and riding our bikes most anywhere in our small town as long as we were home for dinner. Only had to watch for cars, not kidnappers/perverts.

mamaw

My grandparents....I just loved being with them.