Growing Up

So I was thinking about some things the other day concerning adulthood. You know how there are things that you did as a kid (pre-Jr. High) that now as an adult you just really don't do anymore...and for good resaon; some of these things would cause people to talk about you in those "hushed" tones and behind a hand. So I decided that my top 10 tonight would be some of these things. So without further ado, here they are.

10) Have a regular bedtime- I'm talking about one that is enforced mainly. I realize that many people do have a bed time since they have to be at work early, but as an adult there aren't too many who someone there to enforce that for them.

9) Play outside for hours on end- Now we are too tired from working all day to go home and just play outside until it is dark or time for supper.

8) Have "Good clothes" and "Play clothes"- I remember having to change out of what I wore to school everyday first thing before I could go out and play.

7) Have sleepovers- Remember the days of inviting your friends over to have a sleepover? You would stay up late and watch TV and tell stories and play...whatever you played...and then finally go to sleep. Man those were the days. I remember one such time that we were at Justin's house and thought we could be really sneaky and go from the couch (against the far wall of the living room) around the island with the stove (closest to his parents' room) and not get caught, even though we were supposed to be going to sleep. We made it a few times before his mom came out and caught us.

6) Watch Saturday morning cartoons- Maybe it's because all the cartoons now seem to suck on Saturday morning. Why would you want to get up early for these? I guess I'm just old and biased, but the cartoons on Saturday morning when I was a kid were awesome.

5) Play games like tag, chase and hide-and-seek- For some reason those games were awesome. We would run around in the front yard or on the playground at recess and just play.

4) Sleep in your parents bed- You know like if you woke up in the night from a bad dream or because there was a storm or something like that. The place that you wanted to be was in the bed with Mom and Dad...usually right in the middle.

3) Pass notes to the "special" someone- You know the kind I'm talking about. Dear so-n-so will you go out with me? Check one. Then there were the big boxes usually just two-Yes and No- but sometimes with that third option of Maybe. Really glad I get over that one.

2) Wear the same clothes for days on end- Okay granted this was mainly just in the summer. But come one, it was such a hassle to have to get up in the mornings and pick out new clothes when there was a chance you had just slept in the ones you had on the day before anyway. By the time you actually changed they were more or less able to walk themselves to the hamper.

1) Bathe only once a week- Yes I remember being one of those kids who did this in elementary usually in the summer once again. We would take a bath on Saturday night so we could be ready to go to church the next morning. Yeah, hard to believe that was the case now.

So those are the things that come to mind. Feel free to share anything that I might have forgotten here. Peace and Love y'all.