the one i kissed my friend in • the one my mom read me bedtime stories in • the one i held my sister for the first time in • the one where my grandma sat in the corner and crafted • the one where we shared a pizza • the one where my aunt had cable tv
Bunk bed we made into a fort
Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves
Inflatable furniture from Limited Too
Weird shade of green paint and shaggy green carpet
Windows that looked out into the trees
CD / tape player / radio combo
Lava lamp
The occasional Beanie Baby™️
Having my family so close by
The complete and utter lack of responsibility
* my dog Maddie licking cherry pie off of my hands
* my parents were having their annual Christmas party and I was standing in a dark bathroom with a crack of light coming in from the hall, watching my own reflection in the mirror as my nose bled (sounds sinister but I think I was just having a nosebleed)
* clown at the county fair psychologically traumatized me by i got your nose-ing me and another clown painted my nose red. I couldn’t get the face paint off when I got home and I was in tears
* I was mad that my sister had been born. the doctor at the hospital tried to amuse me by blowing up a glove into a balloon animal. my dad and I went home from the hospital for the night and i opened up some presents my grandparents had sent me and my dad and I rented the Barney movie from Blockbuster lol
* another one which may be the earliest but I shan’t share it… nobody needs to know the melancholy of little Tate R. Hole
i was at my grandparents', watching carebears with them.
i was wearing a floral nightie, that never reappears in any other memories.
i was utterly distraught, grandma gave me a peppermint tea.