2 posts tagged “qotd”

What is your earliest memory? 
Submitted by Megan.

My oldest clear memory was from the day my sister Joy was born, March 11, 1973.  I was 4 years old.  I remember standing out in front of the hospital with my brother, either just before or just after we met our new sister, practicing spelling her name by writing the letters J-O-Y in the air with our fingers. 

I also remember wanting her to be my baby.  That lasted a few weeks, until I got sick of her constant crying and insisted that mom and dad "take her to the baby pound."

Tell us about your first kiss.  Who was it with?  How old were you?

Three possible stories come to mind, and honestly I'm not sure which was the "first kiss."

When I was in the 4th grade, I had my first boyfriend, my next-door-neighbor, Brian Rassmussen.  I recall spending one summer evening holding hands with him while lying on the grass on his family's front lawn.  But  I don't remember any kissing...kissing, ew!  That relationship lasted all of one day.

My friend Jill still likes to remind me of how we would watch Days of Our Lives and practice kissing like they did on TV, but on pillows, or the backs of our hands.  I swear I don't remember this, but Jill remembers all kinds of details from our childhood, and is always keen to tell the story.

The most likely first kiss would have been with my first real "boyfriend," Todd Gordon, who I dated for maybe 6 weeks in the 7th or 8th grade (Jill would be able to say which year for sure, and probably which months...she remembers everything...it's like having my own personal historian; she remembers the names and details of my relationships better than I do!)  For sure there was kissing in that relationship, even (*gasp*) french kissing.  But I honestly don't have any memory at all of that first kiss.

However, I remember in vivid detail the first kiss with my current infatuation  :-)