Had a chat with my mother-in-law about the good old days and raising kids and we had some good laughs. My LOML grew up in a big city, while I grew up in the country. MIL was horrified, yet at the same time found it hilarious at the innocent childhood moments gone wrong.
Here are 2 moments I when brought something back for mom.
1.) Mom baked blackberry pies when they were in season. I was probably about 7 years old when I returned from a day at the "crick" with a pail size quantity of blackberries to give to mom. Only I didn't have a pail. I used my baseball jersey to carry them. I have no idea how she got that shirt so white again!
2) Yet again another day at the "crick" and I was probably about 4-5 years old, and this time I had a 5-gallon bucket with me. When I returned to the house, I recall proudly standing in front of the porch showing mom my prize possession I had lugged home. I had worked so hard to fill the bucket and yet, she didn't seem as pleased at my accomplishment as I was. She wouldn't leave the front porch and she demanded I return the contents of the bucket back to the "crick." I dejectedly returned to the crick, located about 1 mile away, and released the garter snakes. (This was probably the reason why I didn't have a bucket with me for the blackberries! LOL)
Parents goof up too.
One day, my older siblings were bickering and even though my mother asked them to stop, they continued to bicker. My mother warned that if the bickering didn't stop, she would call the orphanage to take bad children away. They didn't stop. I must have been about 3-4 years old and vividly remember mom picking up the phone, dialing, and asking if this was the "such-and-such orphanage" and then she told the person that she had some bad children she wanted picked up. I remember wrapping my arms around her knees and looking up and saying that I would be good and she patted my head. The orphanage people never came out. In my 20's, I asked my mother about the orphanage incident. She was confused. I recalled the event to her. She laughed and said she had called the neighbor and vented while the older siblings were screaming in the background. She had no idea I had believed she was really calling the orphanage and that I thought I was going along with the bad children! LOL
Share your stories. I'm sure you can top mine. What kind of innocent trouble did you get into as children that you can laugh about now?