That doesn't make sense does it?
Of course you remember it if it is your memory!!
But memories can be funny things.
I'm quite sure a lot of my early memories are actually only there because of family discussions which kept them alive.
As a family we always sat around the dinner table, every night, and talked.
About this, that and whatever.
I still love that we did that, it's an incredibly powerful family bonding tool.
Although back then it wasn't a tool, it was just the done thing.
Now, with TV, Wii, X-Box, PlayStation, computers, often one or more family members eat dinner in front of a screen.
I'm looking forward to the day where we eat as one as a family.
We're still at the one-meal-for-the-kids-and-a-different-meal-for-us stage.
Anyhow, that's not what I sat down to talk about today.
My first memory is of going shopping with my mum and aunt (Dad's sister). This was a big deal because we lived in the country and a shopping trip meant an hour long drive, both ways, to the big city. Mum wasn't a 'shopper' as such so looking back this was fairly out of character for her. We only ever went on a big shopping trip if we needed something.
On this trip, I was still in the stroller so I must have been 2 or 3 I guess.
And I clearly remember it was the first time I saw an escalator.
I even went on it in my stroller with Mum and my aunty holding it level...very illegal these days!
Mum and my aunty both bought a pair of knee high boots!!
Mum's were a camel colour and my aunty's were tan (it was the 70s!)
And I had a green ice-cream!Not a peppermint one as most green ice-cream is these days.
This one was lime.
I still always look for lime ice-cream but hardly ever find it.
I think I've kept this memory alive because I would repeat this story at the dinner table as part of my own folk lore...
"Remember the time we went shopping and I had a green ice-cream?"So that's my first memory.
Do you have one?
