Revelation of the Spirit- #55 Memories

Tonight while I was laying bed trying to sleep the Lord kept bringing back such found memories of my childhood. So I wanted to share a few and really just say how thankful I am for such great memories.

So one of my earliest memories was when I was in kindergarten. I lived with my grandparents and my great grandfather, Pap Coles. Pap Coles and I were so close and I loved it. He'd take me to kindergarten everyday in his old cadillac like car with leather seats. The seats were always freezing cold in the winter and burning hot in the summer haha. After kindergarten he'd pick me up and take me to the grocery store. He'd tell me to pick out whatever I wanted and would get me it. Most of the time it was just a new box of fruit loops or lucky charms. His room was the greatest. He had boxes of three musketeer bars and gummi bears. I still to this day absolutely love gummi bears...but not so much three musketeer bars haha.

The house we lived in was huge. 4 bedrooms 2 baths 3 porches and a swimming pool. I remember one of my chores when I was little was to sweep off and run the sweeper on our front porch. It had that fake grass carpet haha. So I would first sweep it off so I could get the acorns and stuff that couldn't go up in the vacuum off and then I would run the sweeper. I thought it was so cool how I'd see it go from covered with all these little different sticks and leaves and such to this fake pure green carpet haha. I was always so proud of the job I did. 

Our pool was so the greatest thing ever. It was a 5ft above ground pool with these green brown panels on the side. Then one summer Nana decided that she wanted to change the panels haha. So for about two weeks there wasn't anything around the side of the pool. So one day while my brother was walking around the pool he fell through where the panels would've have been and scraped his ribs. He bruised them pretty badly and had to go to the hospital. Then about two days later I was walking around the pool deck I fell through the open panel spot and I didn't get nearly as hurt as my brother but I just think it's so funny looking back. It definitely wasn't funny at the time but now it is. 

My favorite memories have to be with my Pap Foreman. I love that guy so much. When me and my brother were younger we were always riding our bikes outside. My grandparents had about an acre of land with their house so we quite enjoyed riding our bikes all around, playing cops and robbers haha. Then one day my brother broke the seat off his bike and he couldn't ride it anymore. So he thought it'd be a cool idea if we hooked my little red wagon up to my bike (my barbie bike) and I could ride in my wagon. Seemingly innocent plan haha. Then the next thing you know my wagon flipped over and I was on the ground crying. My lip was busted and both my knees. My Pap kinda just laughed at me and then put band aids on all my boo-boo's. 

My favorite all time memory has to be the one where my Pap tried teaching me how to play football haha. My Nan was out at home league or something for the afternoon and Pap was watching the football game. I told him I wanted to learn how to play. Now keep in mind that my grandparents house was in no way child proof. They had little glass figurines everywhere. So my Pap used one of the couch pillows as the football and just as I hiked the pillow under my legs to pass to him it went to high haha. It knocked a glass figurine off the top of the TV. My Pap tried gluing back together the piece that broke but it never worked. It was quite a few weeks later til my Nan noticed but nonetheless hilarious when she heard the story of how it was broke.

Lord I thank so much for these beautiful memories of life you've given me. It's something, that no matter what happens, no one can ever take away from me. Thank you for all these people that made my memories so great. I pray that memories would just grow from here on out. Thank you.

I pray you weren't bored by these. Thanks for reading.

Kathryn