Kids

Little kids are the best. I sometimes wish I could be a little kid again. When I was little I could entertain myself without T.V. or computer games. I was a "wild child"! being the 7th kid my parents were not very protective. By the time I was six I could say to my mom, "I'm going on a bike ride." and if my chores were done, I would be gone for hours. Can you believe that? How am I not dead or kidnapped?

My best friend and I during ages 6-8 had some real adventures. Not lacking an imagination or mischievous personalities we were seldom bored. We played cops and robbers, lost children, and super hero's. We would spend hours in a tree pretending it was our house. My best friend's older sister's even made Matt and I repeatedly get married. When we would play make believe games it actually seemed like someday we really would go on adventures and have super freezing powers, or live by ourselves without our parents. Being a little kid was the greatest! I had no responsibilities, no real sorrows, and I lived for the moment not thinking ahead. I didn't have to worry about anything because my mom knew everything and there was nothing my dad couldn't do!

I always hear the story about when I was two years old I was found walking down mutton hollow road. My mom was super pregnent with my little sister and had to take a nap. She pleaded with me to stay in my room, but I probably left it as soon as she went into her bedroom. In the midst of her nap she heard someone calling her name. "Katherine, Katherine?'' She being pregnent had no idea what was going on. She got up and went to the front door and saw our two neighbors inside our house holding me in their arms. "We found Elizabeth walking down Mutton Hallow with her baby and stroller." I am not sure how my mom explained her way out of that, but I wasn't put in a children's shelter. As you can see I was rather more than the perfect child.