Every single 1st day of school for the year or semester, my mom would sing the "School Days" song to me to wake me out of bed.

"School Days, School Days, good and golden rule days.  Reading and writing and arithmatic, all to a tune of a hickory stick."

Although annoying when I got into College.  It always marked something new and exciting.  It was cute too.

The first days of elementary and middle school were probably the most fun.  I was always excited to see all my friends again.  What do you remember about your first days of school?

Things were always tough, you would have to learn all new lock codes for your locker and you would dread the teachers you got stuck with who had a reputation for everyone disliking.

I have a feeling that I might sing school days to my children because tradition is a good thing.

I have been thinking a bit about the things I used to do in my back yard at my house growing up. There is not one story that completely sticks out to be written as a full memory so I will try to bullet the things that happened in my yard so I wont forget some of the fun things that happened there.

• The first big memory that happened here was the time my brother fell off of the tree in the back yard. It was very early on in living at that house, maybe a few months after we moved in. He was in a cast for a while.
• We even had a second tree pretty much in the neighbors yard next to us that we would climb around.
• If you cut through the house be hind us a bit, you can get to this small little patch of woods where we used to hang out once and a while.
• One time near our shed in the back, a kid next door threw a large rock and hit my brother in the head. He probably got a small concussion or something. My dad was so furious and he

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All of my life growing up at the Hendricks House , my grandma Taylor used to collect all of her pennies for months and give them to Verda Taylor my brother and I.

We stored them in a large glass water container that had to of been from the 1950's.  The container got so heavy over the years that it was so difficult to even lift.

So finally when I was in 8th grade, my brother, nicholas Azzaro and I counted them all up in my basement.

The total amount from pennies was roughly 400 dollars!  We spent all day counting them and the bank thought we were insane!

What an interesting thing for my grandmother, Verda Taylor to do.  Her growing up through the great depression sets precedence with what the true value of money is.

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XMen. The cartoon. Because I am a huge nerd. Thank you very much.

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I used to love playing out in the rain every once and a while. I would just get really wet and wouldnt do much in particular.

When it was snowy out, some of the greatest memories occurred while snowboarding and sleding. We would always go up to the E.L.E.I.A and sled and snowboard down these awesome hills.

I remember making huge snowmen in elementary school during recess.

Pretty standard kid stuff in bad weather. But we received a lot of bad weather in Michigan.

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