Childhood memories

Memories, those times in your life to which you can reflect to at any moment. They're all so precious even some bad ones because they form who you are. When you want to remember someone close to you who may have passed, the memories are bitter sweet. When you reflect on birthday parties, or curling up with your parents when you were once a child. That nostalgia makes a warm smile cast over your face. Though there are some memories that you might wish to cast from all conciseness, they molded you too. Sometimes I don't like the way somethings went in my life, but I know that as much as the thought tempts me I wouldn't change a thing.
Memories have a funny way of making you laugh and cry, sometimes together. My earliest memory was when I was four years old. My father and his dad came to visit my brother and I at my grandparents house. My brother three at the time remembers it as vividly as I do. They brought loads of presents but we didn't want to open them. Our mom did it for us. That was the last time we saw him. We heard from him about ten years later running from the law. I digress, but I wanted to show you an example though I never cared to know him personally it certainly made me who I am today.
There are good memories, great memories. Just the tiniest thing at the time. Playing pretend with my brother. Brushing my mom's hair. Fighting with them both. Fighting with them still. Joking, playing, and misbehaving. There were times when I was so mean to my brother but it was so funny. My uncle had said his favorite dessert was chocolate covered grasshoppers. We didn't know that it was an actual food, we thought he meant chocolate covered "grasshopper". So I grabbed a grasshopper poured Hershey's syrup on it and told him to try it. Guess what? He did. Those were great times. Now I can make new memories with my family and give my children their childhood memories and I hope that their's is as good as mine. Memories though having both sides of the coin are a treasure that should help you though life. So go out there and make every moment in life count. Keep collecting that precious treasure and never give up.