i remember one afternoon at school, i was in kindergarten.  i went so fast down a slide that i couldn't stop and i tripped over a log.  i sprained my arm.

i remember Christmas eve one year.  my brother got a timex watch and i thought it was so cool.  that night we made pallets in the floor in the den upstairs and went to sleep anticipating santa claus coming.

i remember one year for my birthday a bunch of my girl friends came over to spend the night, and we watched 101 dalmations.

i remember at the skating rink once, a boy came up behind me and tried to hold my hand.  the song that was playing was "i saw the light in your window tonight" by wynona judd.

i remember the first time i rode a roller coaster.  it was the rockin' rollercoaster at opryland.  i was scared out of my mind!  i didn't ride another roller coaster until my senior year of high school.

i remember one time when we visited my great grandmama in the nursing home.  there was a mentally retarded man there.  his name was ray, and i always played with him.  i would hide behind his wheelchair and jump up and scare him.  we had fun together.  i loved him.  i wonder if he is still there.

i remember when my brother was in boy scouts.  one night his troop came over and camped in our woods.  i remember walking in the woods and my dad showing me the place where they slept.

i remember this big yellow van my dad used to drive.  it had a bed in it, and it was huge!  he always used it when he went hunting.

i remember one thanksgiving night sitting in my bedroom watching home alone 1 on an little black and white television.

i remember the night i plotted to run away.  i wrote a note for my parents and everything.  it was before my brother and i switched rooms.  i never ran away.

i remember when my brother and i would play american gladiator with a blanket and a 3-liter mountain dew bottle.

i remember a time in kindergarten when i went up to my teacher and said, "you can call me hairy since my arms are so hairy."

i remember when mrs. meador the librarian read the book "junie b jones and the big smelly school bus."  she was so good with the voices that i immediately checked the book out and read it myself.

i remember the first night i had stuffed crust pizza from pizza hut.  i  still remember who was there.

i remember one afternoon i went to the place where my mom got her hair cut.  the girls gave me a makeover.  they curled my hair and put make-up on me.  then that afternoon, my dad and i watched the indian in the cupboard.

i remember the first time i said a cuss word.  my dad was lighting a big fire in the wood stove, and i was watching.  i was so amazed that i said, "oh s**t!"  my dad sat me in the corner.

i remember when i had ear surgery.  i looked at my brother after i came out and said, "who are you?"

isn't it neat how God gave us the capacity to remember so many things?