Prompt #20:

Describe 3 significant memories from your childhood.

You know how some people can remember things from when they were really young? I’ve heard that can be an indicator of how intelligent you are. Well, if that’s true, I am out of luck because I don’t feel like I have a very good memory. I also wonder sometimes how much I remember and how much I think I remember because I’ve heard my parents talk about things. But here are 3 childhood memories that (I think) I have. I’m not sure if they’re very significant:

1. I remember getting this great toy stand mixer for my birthday when I was 4 or 5. I could put the mixing bowl on, and I think there were some plastic “batters” that I could put in the bowl. I think there was a brown one, a white one, and a pink one. I remember playing with it and loving it.

2. I remember a shopping center in the Philippines–I think it might have been called something like Green Hills. My favorite thing was that it had bumper cars. I remember that I always wanted to ride in the car shaped like a blue bunny. I also remember a small basket of shells that my 1st grade teacher had in our classroom–small, smooth, and shiny.

3. I remember going with my friend Lindsay to her grandma’s house–at least I think it was her grandma’s house. This was when we lived in New York, so it must have been when I was in kindergarten. I remember dunking those little elf sandwich cookies and watching the milk fill the grooves of the debossed images on the cookies.

Like I said, these are not particularly significant. But it’s memories like these, a favorite toy, a chosen bumper car, a basket of shells, the perfect cookie, that combine to create the memory of a lovely childhood.