Lately, I have been realizing something I've been doing wrong. I haven't been thankful. Thankfulness may seem easy and often over-rated; thanksgiving, little quotes on signs, etc.
But in reality, it's often the core of almost EVERYTHING.
Thankfulness fuels what we do and who we are. Without it, we lose joy. And joy is one of the most important things. Without joy, we don't have inspiration. Excitement. Friendliness.
Instead, the tiny cloud in our blue sky is the only thing we can see.
Open your eyes right now. Look at the closest thing to you or look at everything surrounding you. Aren't you blessed?
Even if your life seems, after this still, to be one black cloud, even if you don't have many things or many hopes or many dreams, and even if it seems like it's just pouring buckets...you are still incredibly blessed. You have the amazing opportunity to ask your Creator, your Maker, for those things you don't have. For that cloud to go away. What a blessing, and not one of us are without it.
So I've made this little post for a small piece of happiness (or possibly reminisce) so that everyone who reads it can smile on the other side of their computers/phones/laptops and remember when they were little tater-tots.
Basically...5 childhood things you completely forgot about. Your welcome.
1} Between the Lions, Qubo & Arthur
Can't say that I remember most of these episodes. What I do remember is early mornings (or early to a homeschooler) up, with the t.v on, and Mr. Smarty Pants. And Cliffhanger. Wasn't Between the Lions the best show?! I gotta watch this again, no kid.
My earlier childhood t.v was made up of Dora the Explorer (apparently map eating the screen used to scare me), Veggie Tales, and Threads. Then it was Strawberry Shortcake, Qubo (Babar, Jane and the Dragon, etc.) CLIFFORD the Big Red Dog and Arthur. I remember me and Josh literally got into a squabble over what in the world Arthur was. He's an Anteater. He looks more like a human with huge ears and a little ink-dot nose.
Oh, I almost forgot the Bernstein Bears!
2} VHS, PS2, and Gameboy
I don't know if any person under the age of 15 ever watched these as a kid....but I had a collection. And the funnest part about these things was playing with the tape-wheel-winder thingies, and the little flap-slot in the T.V. It was just entertainment before the show.
Play Station 1 and 2 were it for awhile. We upgraded to the PS2 when I was little. It played games such as Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, and Sly Cooper. No kid now will ever know who any of those characters are.
Play Station 1 and 2 were it for awhile. We upgraded to the PS2 when I was little. It played games such as Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, and Sly Cooper. No kid now will ever know who any of those characters are.
Gameboy's are like the original D.S if you've never had one. They were sorta a little square (like a mini laptop xD) and if it wasn't working right, you blew the dust out of the game slot.
I feel old.
Crash Bandicoot was thee game. Him and his jean shorts, lol. When me and Josh were sick, we use to 'text' each other with the D.S chat thing (our spelling oh goodness). Then we had the old Mario games. NO ONE KNOWS FRUSTRATION IF THEY HAVEN'T PLAYED A D.S GAME THAT STARTED YOU BACK AT LEVEL ONE.
Somehow I even ended up with a bunch of these...I think I still have one survivor laying behind my bed. Back in the 2010's kids were obsessed with these things. I heard they even restricted them from some schools because somehow some kids had managed to find harm in them.
There was literally a silly band for everything. If you never heard of them, just think of the rainbow bracelet craze except in one stretchy rubber band in the shape of some undistinguishable walrus or turtle. Yep.
Josh had a pair of Heelys (they were all the rage for the 'cool' kids...and all the dangerous) though I can't recall where they had their end. Basically, Heelys were a pair of shoes with wheels on the bottom so you could 'skate'. Thus, walking was made faster. And more dangerous.
3} Silly Bands & Heelys
There was literally a silly band for everything. If you never heard of them, just think of the rainbow bracelet craze except in one stretchy rubber band in the shape of some undistinguishable walrus or turtle. Yep.
Josh had a pair of Heelys (they were all the rage for the 'cool' kids...and all the dangerous) though I can't recall where they had their end. Basically, Heelys were a pair of shoes with wheels on the bottom so you could 'skate'. Thus, walking was made faster. And more dangerous.
4} Polly Pockets and Littlest Pet Shop
Right now, in my closet, there's a bag of 60+ Littlest Pet Shops. I had been collecting those wide-eyed animals since probably 5 years old. The best thing was opening up a LPS for Christmas, especially if it was a puppy or bunny of some sort. When I was little, though, they had pretty unoriginal names. Lizard was graciously dubbed Lizard and turtle was titled nothing less than Turtle.
I have to say I was disappointed when I read that they had officially stopped manufacturing Polly Pockets. Obviously, every girl had a Barbie doll, but a Polly Pocket, now, she had style. Her clothes were rubber, which made them waterproof so that they could go swimming, and I even had one with joints in the knees and elbows.
If you owned one of these, you probably had all of the outfit except the shoes (or maybe one of each pair) and if you still have a shirt or two laying around, you probably feel old when you realize it's disintegrating.
5} Mr. Potato Head and Break the Ice
Wow, just looking at this picture is like a flashback. A flashback to those little icebreaking sticks that broke so easily. I don't even have a clue what the purpose of that game was; we just hammered at the ice. One day the blue container broke and that was that.
Mr. Potato Head will forever be a classic in each one of our minds, I think. I don't even care if Lays wants to turn him into a cannibal. He'll always be one of the characters on Toy Story, and one of the best 'surprise' containers, filled with the craziest things, that we ever had.
There is so many more hilarious childhood things (of me and my siblings invention) that swirl around my head. And I know that almost everyone reading this post has at least one decent joy of their childhood if they can relate to the above. So be thankful today for those golden, priceless memories.
