Weekly writing: Child hood

The Prompts: 5.) What made your childhood bearable? Write about it.


Number one: My Piano. For an entire year, I ran around my grade school, hunting down vacant pianos. I learned the notes. I learned how to place my fingers on those beautiful ivory keys. Then, finally my parents caved in. I got a piano of my own. Of course, my father would tickle the ivories from time to time too. Sadly, once I started sounding better than him, he stopped.

Number two: The Black Stallion. Oh ladies and gents. Before Harry Potter and Anne of Green Gables, there was ~cue trumpets~ The Black Stallion. *sigh* The story of a horse and a boy *I always imagined a tom-boy* but hey, still, a child.

Number Three: My Father's Record Collection. I must have played the vinyl records over and over. Cher's "Gypsies Tramps and Thieves" was a remarkable fav. Then there was ABBA, "Voulez Vous" ah huh! My sister and I were making Karaoke popular before it was even a craze.

Number four: Barbie.

The countless of hours my sister and I would make rooms and have hours of fun with all the outfits. I must say looking back that "Ken" often had the name of a "favorite" boy in the class! I knew then that Ken was "gay". hehehehehe.

Those are the four main staples that made my childhood bearable... The only other thing or person I could add would be my Aunt in PDX. My Childhood without my Aunt would have most certainly ended in grave despair. I am sure that is a story for another day...

What about you? What things made your childhood bearable??