From The Past: August 25, 2007

This is Ashley with her friend, Ali. She’s a great little girl. She’s very smart and able to carry on a conversation. She spent her summer in Utah and was telling us how all the kids who lived in the cul-de-sac played games at night. She said they played a game called Ghost in the Graveyard (I could swear I remember playing this as a child), Steal the Flag, The Judge and the Jury and others. I loved hearing about these nighttime games.

I grew up in a big, old house (my parents still live there) and when my dad’s sister and her husband would come over, we would sometimes turn out every light in the house and play hide and seek. It was a BLAST! Sometimes while hiding in the pitch black, I would feel like laughing so hard I thought I would pee my pants.

There is an elementary school that sits next to a middle school here in town. Several times we played hide and seek outside at those schools with my aunt and uncle. It’s too bad for hide and seek that mom and dad have such nice furnishings now; we could never hide these days without tipping over an antique lamp or a curio cabinet filled with collectibles.

I was telling mom about this conversation today and she remembered one time in particular when we played hide and seek. She said the kitchen window was open and it had a screen in it, so she sat in the window and pulled the curtains in order to hide herself. This was an awesome idea until the window decided to come down on her head! OUCH! She’s still surprised it didn’t do some kind of permanent damage.