[dmplaura]

As I was falling asleep last night in my apartment, I heard a bang downstairs. My super lives directly below me, so it didn't really alarm me, but instead I got the image of being a kid at my cousin's house, and they were horsing around and threw a football (I believe it was) which hit a ceramic lamp and broke it. I felt awful for them, but they all were laughing, as was the mother (my Aunt) who said, "I hated that lamp anyways, now I have an excuse to buy a new one!".

The other day vacuuming, as I was going through my bedroom, I had the image in my head of again being a child, and watching my friend's mother vacuum her room and anything that was on her floor. This included many 'cool' things to a kid, such as stickers. The mother seemed unconcerned, I ran around frantically picking stuff up before the Hoover could grab it.

Another is when I see honey bees (yes, the thread about bee stings got the wheels turning to post all this!). When I was very young, the elementary school was down a large hill from the high school. It was often the case that the kids would run from the elementary up the large grassy hill to the high school and back as recess ended. The only reason I recall this particular 'event' is because as I was running back down the hill as a young girl, in my sandals (with socks on, nothing has changed there!) I noticed a pain in my ankle. I looked down and a honey bee had stung me through my sock. I guess I had ran too close to it, running through the clover that littered the hill.

I don't remember a lot of my childhood, but I find that everyday activities and events trigger certain memories that are, for reasons unknown to me, ingrained in my memory. Anyone else recall memories from being a child that often return to them while doing the most mundane of activities?