ToughDiamond wrote:
How do people assign a date or age to their earliest memories? I mean you wouldn't usually have looked at the calendar at the time, would you?
I can keep track of my ages for various things because we moved around a lot. So when I tie events to houses I can get a general idea of how old I was at the time.
My earliest memorieS -- I emphasize the plural because I can't really determine which came first. I just know what house we were living in at the time, and we didn't stay there long. We lived there for my brother's 1st birthday and 2nd Christmas, which would have been 1962. That makes me approximately 2-1/2...
-- My brother and I getting new rocking chairs for Christmas. I have a vague memory of there being a Flinstones coloring book in the chair, but I can't be sure. The cool thing is that we both still have our chairs. Mom said that they paid $65 each for those chairs in 1962. It's amazing how well those chairs held up through all we put them through.
-- Taking a bath with my Mom
-- My brother looking at a pop gun too closely and pinching his nose in it. He still has the scar across the bridge of his nose.
-- Splitting my chin open, and Mom picking me up and carrying me in her arms to the doctor, who was in the next block. I still have the scar from that too.
-- Cutting my left index finger on a tin can. Once again, still have the scar....my clumsiness kicked in really early....LOL