This week, we've been ordered to be happy! Tara says:
Let's shine a bright light.
This week's Gallery theme is: A Happy Memory
I could be predictable and show you a photo of The Boy when he was first born, or playing on the beach, or even when my 12 weeks scan, but I've decided to rewind further than that.
I'm going back to 1980.
Get your knitted cardigans and flared jeans out now.
I was only three years old and the youngest of four children; two boys and two girls in that order. My eldest brother (incidentally the only one of the three who knows the name of this blog and therefore might read this) is twelve years older than me, and was great fun to play with. He's good with littlies.
The four of us used to play for hours and hours in the garden, it was a real treasure trove of imaginative lands. Obviously with such a big range in ages between us, there was only a small window of time when this play existed. A year earlier and I was still a toddler, two years later and my eldest sibling had discovered the pub! However, during those few golden years we would race around in go-carts, splash in our paddling pool, chase each other with the hose-pipe, build tunnels in the snowdrifts, get tied to the cherry tree by our plaits (although that might just have been me) and make marvellous mud pies.
Here, I'm making my eledest brother better with some special medicine, otherwise known as a leaf.
They really were the golden years of childhood, I hope that The Boy enjoys his as much as I did mine.
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What a gorgeous photo and doesn't the boy look like you! Not saying he looks like a girl…you know what I mean 🙂
Lovely memory
I know what you mean, and thank you! I keep telling people he does!
Brilliant choice. That picture is lovely, really captures happiness!
Lovely choice for the prompt, I was an only child so that sounds amazing to me having siblings to play with.
Lovely photo and there is nothing better than having a sibling. There is 10 years between me and my sister but I love her dearly!
What a great photo to have as your memory. Lucky you 😉 Are you still close with your brother?
Delightful picture. Hope you stayed as close when you both grew up.
Aww that is so sweet. A lovely photo which holds such a great memory! 🙂
What a lovely memory to share. And a great picture. So cute!
Oh what fab memories, bring back memories of my childhood flooding back 🙂 Lovely photo xxx
The boy looks so much like you in this photo 🙂
Wonderful memories shared and a great retro kind of photo xx
I am sure he will! How cute are you, and so lucky to have a special bond with your brother. I always wanted an older brother. x
They are fab memories and I love that photo! You were so cute, your little boy looks so much like you! If you compare the side view of you and the side view of him at the top, they are identical, amazing! x
Lovely photo, you obviously had a great childhood with your brothers and sister!
What wonderful memories to have! I love old photos x
What a lovely memory and I just LOVE the photo x
What wonderful memories to have & what a great picture!
There is a 12 year age difference between my eldest & youngest and they love each others company and I hope it will continue, although I doubt when the eldest is suffering from a hangover that he will want his younger brother jumping on him?!
The Boy also looks so like you!
Aww what a great memory. You are so lucky to have siblings x
A really touching post and reminds you how simple play is great without all that Xbox etc nonsense