Seven Childhood Memories Challenge

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@Lori A Moore challenged us to think of seven memories from our childhood. I am behind (and have been since childhood) but here are my seven now. 1. My absolute favourite thing I had as a child was my playhouse. Yes by night it was a garden/bike storage place but during the day it was my playhouse. 2. I remember turning 6 part way through the school year and deciding I needed to begin grade one. Much to my frustration that wasn't the plan, so I took matters into my own hands and secretly Followed my brother to school. 3. When I went to elementary school everyone went home for lunch. Everyone; there was no possible way to arrange to stay at school for lunch. Every neighbourhood had a school within walking distance and lunch was 1 1/2 hours. Teachers could go out for lunch too. My mom came home on her lunch break to breast feed the babies and have lunch with us. 4. I used to help my dad make breakfast every morning and felt quite proficient. Once when my parents slept in I decided to surprise them. Unfortunately I turned on the wrong burner. The egg carton was sitting on that burner and burst into flames. Luckily my dad rushed in and quickly put it out. I was 6 when I did that too. 5. The first time I went skiing I had to ride the pomalift alone as it's a one person lift. The empty poma lifts return to the bottom quite high up in the air. I envisioned myself dangling from one of them as I couldn't picture how I was going to get off that lift when I reached the top. So, I flung myself to the ground and got away from that lift. My mother coming up behind me had to join me of course. Unfortunately that slope wasn't the easy way down. 6. On the same ski trip I rode up the gondola to the ski slopes with my older brother. There was a stretcher hanging below one gondola car and he told me I would be coming down on that. That was mean as I was already feeling scared in the gondola. 7. The next day on the same ski trip I wanted to go to the baby sitter with my baby brother instead of skiing. She left the baby with her mother and took me to 101 Dalmations with her friends. Now that was a great day. I was seven. I love skiing and it has been a life long dream to live in a ski resort town. This spring I am going to do that for one month! This is a pomalift