Big Hunk! That's the one, I love that candy, especially when they just come out of the microwave, yum! I could eat one right now!
I miss my Grandmother too Mele, I'm Latina and when we were kids, my Grandmother would start a wood fire in her bbq pit. She would then cook her big ol' burrito size tortillas outside, about the size of a large size pizza. I'm not kidding. And you could smell them from down the street. She would have butter outside and when she would take them fresh from the griddle we'd slap some butter on them, fold em and eat.
I sigh too Mele!
I miss:
Playing kick the can at night with neighbor kids.
Laying in the tree house reading library books all summer
Going to the local pool almost every day for like a quarter (and
no one cared that we didn't use sunscreen & got really dark).
Participating in spelling bees at school.
Delivering newspapers with my brothers at 5:30 in the morning (It was
also kind of scary at that time of the day).
Being really excited on Easter and Christmas morning to get up really
early but being warned by our parents that we better not.
Helping the teacher make copies on the Xerox machine and trying to
smell them afterwards because you loved that smell sooo much!
Walking home from school on top of the big piles of snow at the side of
the road left from the snowplow.
Wondering if nuns had any hair underneath that veil.
Going to roller skating parties for our school, especially when they
turned the lights out except for the blacklights and a boy skated with
you.
Getting your first bra and showing it off to your girlfriends.
Going to slumber parties with your girlfriends.
~I miss playing with all my childhood friends
~Innocent Cartoons (not like the ones of today)
~Being a child and not worrying about the cares of this world
Having only one car for the family....and it was a work truck!
All four of us kids riding in the back of that truck, all the way to San Diego, about 45 miles, many times to see our cousins. (Maybe a good thing this law was changed!)
What about sitting on the porch swing on summer nights? There's a song that says something like "back then, people really knew how to sit on the porch."
Playing "church" with my cousins. I was one of the youngest, so I always had to be in the congregation. My one cousin was ALWAYS the minister... and guess what... he's a minister now! I wasn't the very youngest one, so I didn't get baptized every time.
Going to Grandma's in the summer (Nebraska... GO BIG RED!) and catching fireflies (we don't have them in Colorado). Running around barefoot all summer long, coming home and having to wash our crusty feet with that soap Grandpa used to clean his hands. The name is not coming to me now.... Darn. It was gritty. Ok... I'll have to think about that for awhile now.
Does anyone remember going to the movies and they had those huge lollipops, Charms, in all different colors? They lasted the entire movie and you could still take them home.
Going to Grandma's in the summer (Nebraska... GO BIG RED!) and catching fireflies (we don't have them in Colorado). Running around barefoot all summer long, coming home and having to wash our crusty feet with that soap Grandpa used to clean his hands. The name is not coming to me now.... Darn. It was gritty. Ok... I'll have to think about that for awhile now.
Does anyone remember going to the movies and they had those huge lollipops, Charms, in all different colors? They lasted the entire movie and you could still take them home.
Wasn't it called GOOP? My grampa was a farmer, as well, and he had a big pump thingy of it attached to the wall by the laundry sink.
Speaking of Grandparents...I remember sharing my Grampa's heating pad with him on Saturday nights, watching Lawrence Welk and having Gramma bring in a big bowl of homemade caramel popcorn. I also remember eating mulberries right out of Gramma's mulberry tree, her GORGEOUS flower beds, peach pies and the prom dress we created together. I REALLY miss Gramma. I also miss eating green beans and peas right out of Grampa's garden and peaches right out of his peach trees. And Grandma singing How Great Thou Art in the pew behind us in church. And her Lily of the Valley perfume she wore on Sundays. One of my favorite memories of G&G, though, is when we took them to Disney World and took them on Space Mountain. At the end, we thought Grampa was having a heart attack, but he couldn't breath for laughing so hard. And GRAMMA, having not listened to me when I told her to be sure and go pee before boarding on the rocket ship, couldn't get out of the cart because she was laughing so hard adn couldn't lift her leg to get out because she...had to pee!! Oh, how I miss G&G...but I have extra to look forward to when I go to heaven, knowing they'll be there waiting for me.
YES! Veggies and fruit...that TASTED GOOD! What has happened to fruit? Do you think there could be a reason that the apples at Costco weigh 10 pounds EACH?
And of course Lawerence Welk! All those bubbles
Ed Sullivan Show ~ The Beatles ~ Elvis and Topo Gigio
The Bobby Vinton Show (my grandma loved him), Donny and Marie (good night everybody!), Tony Orlando and Dawn, Captain and Tennille, The Gong Show, What's Happening, Sha Na Na, The Carol Burnett Show... what happened to all those good shows where you could actually sit together as a family and watch? Sheesh, I just realized that I've been a TV junkie for a very long time
We used to watch The Rifleman and alot of other western shows at my house.
This a local show in my state, but we used to watch The Wallace and Ladmo show. It was hillarious!
Our state fairs used to be so fun back in the late 60's and 70's. We could go into the Coliseum and watch the Phoenix Suns or a concert for free!
Not anymore.
The Country Market store we used to go to sold Bargs soda. My grandmother would pick up a six pac of different flavors and we would always fight for the lemon-lime flavor. Actually, the honor went to my uncle! Now they only sell rootbeer.
I do miss my grandmother and grandfather.
My grandfather used to show me the callouses on his hands and he would tell me that a dinosaur bit him. And I fell for it!
My grandmother used to smoke, not inhale though. And for some reason she never wanted my uncle to know, he was her oldest son. Apparently everyone knew but him, that she smoked, so she thought.
So everyone once in awhile my uncle would let it slip that he saw a red flashlight outside, lauging about it. I would laugh because I knew he was talking about my grandmothers cigarette at night while she smoked it.
It was too funny. My uncle was so gracious towards my grandmother.
So many things I miss, but like you say Techwife, I look forward to seeing them in heaven too.
Jr. High crushes ~ looking across the cafeteria, making eye contact with that super cute "girl" ~ seeing her smile back ~ feeling all big and stuff ~ strutting around being cool..."she likes me - she likes me" ~ having her friend come up and say "she likes you/thinks you are cute" ~ then being too afraid to "look" at her again...in case she wants you to TALK to her!!
I also miss eating green beans and peas right out of Grampa's garden and peaches right out of his peach trees. And Grandma singing How Great Thou Art in the pew behind us in church. And her Lily of the Valley perfume she wore on Sundays. One of my favorite memories of G&G, though, is when we took them to Disney World and took them on Space Mountain. At the end, we thought Grampa was having a heart attack, but he couldn't breath for laughing so hard. And GRAMMA, having not listened to me when I told her to be sure and go pee before boarding on the rocket ship, couldn't get out of the cart because she was laughing so hard adn couldn't lift her leg to get out because she...had to pee!! Oh, how I miss G&G...but I have extra to look forward to when I go to heaven, knowing they'll be there waiting for me. 
