3.) Draw, label, and share the layout of your childhood home.
Welcome to my childhood home. This is where I’m from so feel free to take a peek around and make yourself comfortable. Just try not to walk on the kitchen floor…my Mom just washed them.
1. This is where Mom ran the daycare and we all played everyday.
2. This is where we were sent when we got loud…which is to say, often.
3. This is where I fell out of my bunk bed and broke my collar bone and my Mom pretty much ignored me.
4. This is where my Mom cooked that nasty rice pudding.
5. This is where we watched The Cosby Show and Punky and Rags to Riches together as a family. But never ever Three’s Company.
6. This is where I peed in a bathroom drawer while sleep walking.
7. This is where my sister threw herself down the stairs and pretended like I pushed her.
8. This is where I threw the food I didn’t like under my sisters and brothers chairs so that my Mom would think they were throwing food under the table and not me.
9. This is where everyone but me stepped in dog poop after I woke the entire family early Christmas morning (I was excited to find nail polish in my stocking).
10. This is where my sister pushed me out of the house and into the freezing snow to feed our dog Buddy a bowl of leftover pancake mix.
11. This is where I listened to my Mom’s phone conversations with Aunt Diane when I was supposed to be napping.
12. This is the part of the deck my brother threw my sister’s peanut butter cookies off of after I taunted him about how we picked his least favorite cookie to make to spite him.
Victoria KP says
I love how all of the different rooms triggered a memory for you. And such memories! Dog poop at Christmas! Ew!
Tiffany says
I really wanted to do this post…but I wasn’t sure I could do it!!! I love this and all of the memories it brought back for you. I’d love to revisit all three of my childhood homes.
natteringnic says
Ooh…I loved “Rags to Riches” too! I would have totally been ringing your doorbell, asking if I could come in! Love your post…I did the same thing but with lame-o, poorly done, sketch drawings.
Dianna says
I chose the same prompt, and it’s obvious that I’m not an artist!
Great to read your childhood memories.
Jen {at} take2mommy says
Hilarious!
I’ve been sitting here for 15 minutes now, reminiscing about the things my siblings and I did in our childhood home. So many tales, and many similar to yours. Claims that I pushed my brother down the stairs… being ratted out by my sister for hiding food. Gotta write it all down now for sure.
claire says
I teach college freshman English and we do a version of the prompt you chose; they basically draw their childhood home and use that to prompt random thins that happened. This then leads them to write short scenes of things that may have impacted who they were. It’s very tangible and memory driven. Good one!
Maggie S. says
I was in the store this week trying to figure out how to feed soft foods to post-op boy. I thought of you in Kroger, “I don’t think Mama Kat would think this is a very good idea.” Rice Pudding.
morgan says
There was an awful lot of throwing in your house …. people and food! Thanks for hosting again this week!
BalancingMama (Julie) says
Punky was the bomb! I love your artsy floor plan.
Jennifer says
I love the memories that go with each room. Too cute!
Gingerj says
OH! Punky Brewster….I LOVED that show and haven’t thought about it in years…thansk for the “tour”!! :)
BigMamaCass says
My mom ran a home daycare too :)
MangoChutney says
I would’ve liked to do this post, but I didn’t want to full out expose my dyfunctinality…I didn’t exactly have one childhood home. But your diagram is BEAUTIFUL KAT!!! and you explain t so well;)
Jerralea says
So …. where was your brother’s room? LOL
I should have done this prompt, I do have memories for every room in my house, too.
OneMommy says
I love it! Such great memories…. I definitely need to do a this post sometime.
Jennifer says
I lived in so many different houses growing up that there is no way I could do a layout. It would be cool to have one place to call home.
hollow tree ventures says
Love your graphic – and I totally forgot about Rags to Riches!
kaye says
Awesome floor plan! Especially your room and your sisters room. Every kid should have their room divided like that. It builds character. I also like how you linked to past posts of things that happened in your childhood home. Very creative. kaye—the road goes ever ever on
Jamie@southmainmuse says
Looking at your cute image, makes me think of my childhood home. I freaked out when I came home from college that first Thanksgiving after being away three months. It was as if everything had shrunk. The rooms, the furniture — everything was smaller than I remembered it.
Jen says
Well, now… what a lovely home. :-)
Kristen @ Motherese says
Wow, I learned so much about your just by these quick snapshots of your home growing up. Now you’ve got me wishing I had chosen this prompt this week!
Laural Out Loud says
OMG! I totally peed in a drawer, too! Only I was a sophmore in college and it was my roommate’s desk drawer. Probably enough said about that. But, yay for such a random thing to have in common!
Mimi says
We were big Cosby watchers. I knocked my brother’s tooth out once by hitting him in the face with a door while we were “playing”. I always spit my food into my napkin!
Elphaba says
Hello there! I’m new and just wanted to say hello and apologize that I messed up the picture part of linking up for the writer’s workshop post. But the link works which is the important part.
I loved your childhood home recreation! It prompted some great stories! Thank you for creating this writer’s workshop as part of your blog. It makes for a great way to meet other bloggers and practice using those creative juices that seem to evaporate when not in use. I look forward to reading other responses!