Things I miss from my childhood:

--Seersucker pajamas
--bathing caps
--grape koolaid
--pink foam curlers
--TV specials (the Wizard of Oz, Rudolph, The Grinch)
--picnics in front of the tv
--Little plaid cotton dresses for the first day of school
--stretchy headbands and plastic barrettes 
--fishing on the rocks at the cottage
--grandma’s sweet rolls
--Playing with our Barbie dolls on the front porch
--Sonic Booms
--Knee Socks
--My bicycle with the sparkling purple plastic handlebar streamers and bell.
--Hostess HoHos
--that musty, dusty smell of school
--my hot pink flowered wallpaper
--making pretty valentines and the box to put them in
--my record player and 45s
--having a body free of stretchmarks
--Andy Williams Christmas Specials
--Nancy Drew
--getting gradecards
--waxed lips, pixie stix, bit-o-honey, Spearment chicklets and chuckles candy
--slow dancing at teen town
--the peace sign
--Groovy
--day of the week underwear
--eating without weight gain or guilt
--Christmas Eve at grandma Ellie’s and Christmas morning at the farm
--“mock” chicken (chopped veal on a stick)
--the crisply startched white hats with a black cross that nurses wore
--Girl Scouts
--Having milk delivered at the back door
--Fountain pens
--Going to the Drive-in in our pajamas and playing on the playground before the movie started
--playing school
--Easter hats
--drinking sodas at the drugstore soda fountain in Blissfield
--the magnificence and awe of seeing the first shopping mall
--falling in love with Bobby Sherman
--Weekly Readers
--the day our Scholastic Book orders came in
--Going downtown on the bus with grandma and eating crinkle cut French fries at the department store cafeteria.
--My red palazzo pants with my navy blue and red long sleeved body suit
--catching lightening bugs
--the school carnival
--corn dogs at the fair
--Sunday morning mass with grandpa Fritz
--Maxi dresses
-- the smell of isopropyl alcohol right after I got my ears pierced
--grocery day
--black lights 
--mood rings
--Wonderful World of Disney on Sunday nights
--running barefoot in the grass
--going to get books at the library
--packing a lunch for field trips
--fringed macramé purses
--Watching HR PufNStuf on Saturday mornings
--Cream of Wheat with LOTS of butter and sugar
--“hunting” worms with a flashlight to go fishing the next morning
--parties at the cottage in summer
--the tire swing at the farm
--my dad