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.
Now it’s your turn!
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The Prompts:
1.) Describe a smell that brings back memories.
2.) Tell a story (based on truth or fiction) where someone is playing with fire–literally or metaphorically–and probably shouldn’t be.
3.) Draw, label, and share the layout of your childhood home.
4.) Write a blog post inspired by the word: leaves
5.) Fall is here! List your top 10 favorite things about this Fall season.
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I love how all of the different rooms triggered a memory for you. And such memories! Dog poop at Christmas! Ew!
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.
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.
I chose the same prompt, and it’s obvious that I’m not an artist!
Great to read your childhood memories.
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.
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!
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.
There was an awful lot of throwing in your house …. people and food! Thanks for hosting again this week!
Punky was the bomb! I love your artsy floor plan.
I love the memories that go with each room. Too cute!
OH! Punky Brewster….I LOVED that show and haven’t thought about it in years…thansk for the “tour”!! :)
My mom ran a home daycare too :)
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;)
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.
I love it! Such great memories…. I definitely need to do a this post sometime.
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.
Love your graphic – and I totally forgot about Rags to Riches!
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
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.
Well, now… what a lovely home. :-)
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!
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!
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!
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!