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August 2018 Moms
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GTKY - Throwback Edition!
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1. 10 years ago what were you doing in life?
2. What was your favorite toy when you were a kid?(bonus for a pic)
3. Do you still own any VHS tapes or cassette tapes?
4. Name your favorite past childhood TV Show.
5. What do you wish was around today (like a food brand or toy brand) that isn't anymore?
6. What would you consider your growing up years? 70s, 80s, 90s? Do you miss those years?
*Totally stole this from another BMB*
2. What was your favorite toy when you were a kid?(bonus for a pic)
3. Do you still own any VHS tapes or cassette tapes?
4. Name your favorite past childhood TV Show.
5. What do you wish was around today (like a food brand or toy brand) that isn't anymore?
6. What would you consider your growing up years? 70s, 80s, 90s? Do you miss those years?
*Totally stole this from another BMB*
August '18 April Siggy Challenge: April Showers
Re: GTKY - Throwback Edition!
2. What was your favorite toy when you were a kid? I had this tiny self-propelled purple monster truck that I kept for ages and ages.
3. Do you still own any VHS tapes or cassette tapes? Nope! No CDs or DVDs, either (though I do keep Blu-Ray copies of family favorites) :P
4. Name your favorite past childhood TV Show. The Magic School Bus
5. What do you wish was around today (like a food brand or toy brand) that isn't anymore? Honestly I miss Tamagotchis and Butterfinger BB's
6. What would you consider your growing up years? 70s, 80s, 90s? Do you miss those years? 90's, but no. I don't particularly miss them, apart from brief moments of nostalgia.
Waiting tables and going to college.
2. What was your favorite toy when you were a kid?(bonus for a pic)
Puppy surprise! Mine had three puppies, and I brought them everywhere.
3. Do you still own any VHS tapes or cassette tapes?
Yes. Some old family movies and a copy of beauty and the beast.
4. Name your favorite past childhood TV Show.
Probably Rugrats or salute your shorts.
5. What do you wish was around today (like a food brand or toy brand) that isn't anymore?
Orbitz drink!
6. What would you consider your growing up years? 70s, 80s, 90s? Do you miss those years?
90s. I do. I miss the simplicity and lack of technology.
2. What was your favorite toy when you were a kid?(bonus for a pic) Easy bake oven!
3. Do you still own any VHS tapes or cassette tapes? Yes, most notably some Backstreet Boys videos
4. Name your favorite past childhood TV Show. Saved by the Bell
5. What do you wish was around today (like a food brand or toy brand) that isn't anymore? Fruitopia was pretty good
6. What would you consider your growing up years? 70s, 80s, 90s? Do you miss those years? 90s. In some ways I think it was a simpler time, but I also wasn’t an adult. But really the economic upswing experienced in that time will likely never happen again. Such a great time for the Cowboys, too
1. 10 years ago what were you doing in life? I had left my job in DC and moved to south Florida to get away from a toxic boyfriend situation. It was my first big on-my-own transition since getting out of the Army.
2. What was your favorite toy when you were a kid?(bonus for a pic) When I was little, I was all about the Cabbage Patch dolls, My Little Pony and Pound Purries! My dad actually sent a box of childhood stuff about a year ago and my pound purries were in there! They got a deep clean in the washer and now DS plays with them!
3. Do you still own any VHS tapes or cassette tapes? I'm embarrassed to admit it but yes! DH wants me to get rid of them but it's all my original Disney movies like the Lion King - you can't just throw that stuff away!
4. Name your favorite past childhood TV Show. We didn't really watch TV growing up - our parents were anti-screen time lol! But we watched Mr. Rogers Neighborhood and Sesame Street
5. What do you wish was around today (like a food brand or toy brand) that isn't anymore? I miss the toys that would come in the cereal boxes! We used to get some awesome temporary tattoos
6. What would you consider your growing up years? 70s, 80s, 90s? Do you miss those years? 80's. I loved growing up in that time, but I can't say I necessarily miss it.
Me: 37 Him: 38
Married 11.07.2015
2. What was your favorite toy when you were a kid?(bonus for a pic)
BARBIES! Although my favourite ever was a Sindy doll I got for Christmas one year. I loved her. I was obsessed with her outfit, her shoes, her hat. I just loved her! Edwardian Dream Sindy...
3. Do you still own any VHS tapes or cassette tapes?
No VHS although there are probably some at my parents house. I also have all my old Spice Girls cassette tapes somewhere. I'll never get rid of them. JUDGE ME!
4. Name your favorite past childhood TV Show.
Sabrina the Teenage Witch, probably!
5. What do you wish was around today (like a food brand or toy brand) that isn't anymore?
Can't think of anything in particular!
6. What would you consider your growing up years? 70s, 80s, 90s? Do you miss those years?
90s. I do miss it. DH and I were just talking about this, how it was not that long ago but so very different. Simpler.
DH was deployed so I was probably sitting around our apartment most of the time. Working my first real job in hotel sales and working my way through college. I was 23.
2. What was your favorite toy when you were a kid?(bonus for a pic)
Hmmmm probably barbies or my little ponies
3. Do you still own any VHS tapes or cassette tapes?
No, I think my mom may still have some though but I’m not sure.
4. Name your favorite past childhood TV Show.
As a little kid I enjoyed Muppet Babies and Fraggle Rock. High School I was into Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
5. What do you wish was around today (like a food brand or toy brand) that isn't anymore?
Oh man, some stuff seems to be making a comeback in newer ways. I can’t even think though I know I’ll remember them once people comment.
I know now some people still rollerblade but it’s not common to see kids do it like we did back then.
6. What would you consider your growing up years? 70s, 80s, 90s? Do you miss those years?
I guess moreso the 90’s. I do in a way for what many said before but I can’t imagine not having internet or cell phones anymore like we did back then.
1. 10 years ago what were you doing in life?
I was 22, living with my parents, and doing a year-long student teaching stint.
2. What was your favorite toy when you were a kid?(bonus for a pic)
Another one for My Little Pony and Pound Puppies! And Barbies too, but that came a little later. I also loved my talking doll house and Polly Pocket.
3. Do you still own any VHS tapes or cassette tapes?
No, but DH and I always talk about the good ol' days when you had to blow on something to make it work, or (gasp!) rewind it. Or (double gasp!) return it to the video store.
4. Name your favorite past childhood TV Show.
I liked a lot of different stuff, but big favorites were Rainbow Brite, Fraggle Rock, Ghostbusters. Later on - Saved by the Bell, Are You Afraid of the Dark.
5. What do you wish was around today (like a food brand or toy brand) that isn't anymore?
Does Bubblelicious gum still exist? I actually was looking for it recently (pregnancy, y'all) but couldn't find it! Also, what about Gushers and Fruit by the Foot? And Ecto Cooler???? I ate a lot of healthy things.
6. What would you consider your growing up years? 70s, 80s, 90s? Do you miss those years?
A mix of 80s and 90s, and yes I definitely miss those years. I miss being young, carefree, no responsibilities, but like others have said, I also miss the "simpler times" in general with no social media, no technology, etc. DH and I often wonder if our kids will remember their youth with the same fondness as we remember ours. I hope so, but it just seems so different now.
2. What was your favorite toy when you were a kid?(bonus for a pic)
Bitty Baby (the American Doll babies). Obsessed.
3. Do you still own any VHS tapes or cassette tapes?
We have a TON of VHS Disney tapes.
4. Name your favorite past childhood TV Show.
Rugrats, Hey Arnold.
5. What do you wish was around today (like a food brand or toy brand) that isn't anymore?
Diet Coke had Cherry Chocolate flavor around Christmas my first year in college and I really miss that.
6. What would you consider your growing up years? 70s, 80s, 90s? Do you miss those years?
90s. I do miss them. Everything was much simpler then. Except I was bullied pretty badly because of my weight. I can't imagine how that would be with social media and all that now.
*Totally stole this from another BMB*
1. 10 years ago what were you doing in life?
I was working at a daycare. DH and I were in our 2nd apartment. We were engaged.
2. What was your favorite toy when you were a kid?(bonus for a pic) Like @ecwk Barbies! Also my fisher price kitchen set. I grew up with a ton of kids and we would play "house".
3. Do you still own any VHS tapes or cassette tapes? No. My mom has a bunch though.
4. Name your favorite past childhood TV Show. Muppet Babies! I totally forgot bout that until @scottishlass1213
reminded me! There were just so many awesome shows!
5. What do you wish was around today (like a food brand or toy brand) that isn't anymore? Grape Swedish fish!
6. What would you consider your growing up years? 70s, 80s, 90s? Do you miss those years? I was both 80s and 90s I guess since I was born in the very early 80s. I guess sometimes I miss being a kid.
2. What was your favorite toy when you were a kid?(bonus for a pic): I loved my skip-it. I would use that thing for hours outside! I always tried to get as many skips on the counter as possible.
3. Do you still own any VHS tapes or cassette tapes?: Yep! My parents actually just brought me a bunch of boxes from their basement a few months ago and it included old tapes. The VHS are still at their house, but we still have just about every single Disney movie on VHS.
4. Name your favorite past childhood TV Show.: Inspector Gadget, Fraggle Rock
5. What do you wish was around today (like a food brand or toy brand) that isn't anymore?: Planter's Brand Cheez-Balls. All the ones today just don't compare. I want the big blue tin of Planters dangit.
6. What would you consider your growing up years? 70s, 80s, 90s? Do you miss those years?: Mainly 80's, little bit of early 90's. and Yes, I miss those years. I can't imagine not having computers, cell phones, email, and all the technology we have... but I also feel like life was much simpler when I was a kid.
DS: 5.28.15
DS#2: EDD 8.31.18
@lolog531 Skip It was the BEST!!!
I was laying in a hospital getting my appendix removed.
2. What was your favorite toy when you were a kid?(bonus for a pic)
3. Do you still own any VHS tapes or cassette tapes?
I still have all of my original Disney and Star Wars VHS.
4. Name your favorite past childhood TV Show.
Ghostbusters, V, MacGuyver, Transformers, He-Man (I loved Skeletor)..
5. What do you wish was around today (like a food brand or toy brand) that isn't anymore?
Clearly Canadian!
6. What would you consider your growing up years? 70s, 80s, 90s? Do you miss those years?
80's, terribly. Everything was so innocent and goofy then. I could play outside after dark and my parents never cared or worried about anything.
In my second year of college, working retail and living at home.
2. What was your favorite toy when you were a kid?(bonus for a pic)
Barbies, pound puppies, Polly pocket.
3. Do you still own any VHS tapes or cassette tapes?
No. I had some Disney classics at my moms but not sure what she did with them.
4. Name your favorite past childhood TV Show.
Hey Arnold, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Full House.
5. What do you wish was around today (like a food brand or toy brand) that isn't anymore?
I had forgotten about Butterfinger BB’s until @mrslittlemac mentioned them, those were good.
6. What would you consider your growing up years? 70s, 80s, 90s? Do you miss those years?
90s.
1. 10 years ago what were you doing in life? I was still in high school!
2. What was your favorite toy when you were a kid?(bonus for a pic) I had a ton of favorite toys. I loved my Tamagotchi, my scooter. OH, and my brother and I both got those electronic dogs called Poo-chis for Christmas one year that looked like this:
3. Do you still own any VHS tapes or cassette tapes? I do! We have a few at our house and I know I have a box full at my mom's.
4. Name your favorite past childhood TV Show. Pappyland! I watched it every morning before I went to school. It was this sweet old dude that taught you how to draw pictures and stuff. I also loved Bobby's World!
5. What do you wish was around today (like a food brand or toy brand) that isn't anymore? I miss those 3D Doritos that came in a plastic can. And I miss the crispitos we used to have at school. Oh, and I really miss NSync.
6. What would you consider your growing up years? 70s, 80s, 90s? Do you miss those years? I'm a 90s kid, and yeah, I guess I miss it every now and then!
2. What was your favorite toy when you were a kid?(bonus for a pic)
3. Do you still own any VHS tapes or cassette tapes? I do! I actually have a stack of Disney VHS tapes above my bed
4. Name your favorite past childhood TV Show. Oh man I had a lot! Rugrats, Doug, Salute Your Shorts, Are you Afraid of the Dark?, Goosebumps, All That, Hey Dude. Basically all of Nickelodeon.
5. What do you wish was around today (like a food brand or toy brand) that isn't anymore? Gak! I loved that stuff haha
6. What would you consider your growing up years? 70s, 80s, 90s? Do you miss those years? the 90s and heck yes, I had no responsibilities and my biggest worry was if I had the right stickers on my trapper keeper
August 18 Siggy Challenge: April Showers
2. What was your favorite toy when you were a kid?(bonus for a pic) I can't name just one but here are a few favorite throwbacks in addition to the obvious Barbie that everyone already said:
3. Do you still own any VHS tapes or cassette tapes? Hm....I'm guessing in a bin somewhere I still have a VHS tape of Cruel Intentions. I probably have cassette tapes somewhere too.
4. Name your favorite past childhood TV Show. I must be indecisive today:
5. What do you wish was around today (like a food brand or toy brand) that isn't anymore? I can't think of anything
6. What would you consider your growing up years? 70s, 80s, 90s? Do you miss those years? I guess I'm an 80s kid. I miss the innocence of those times, the world felt safer- I don't know if it really was or if that was just my happy little kid lens.
@livinthesunnylife Yes to My so Called Life! And oh man Jordan Catalano. I loved that show so much.
@scottishlass1213 Jem actually wasn't allowed in our house- my Mom thought they weren't appropriate so she didn't like us watching it. But she worked 3rd shift on the weekends so we used to sneak downstairs and turn the tv on really quietly and hope she didn't wake up and catch us.
August 18 Siggy Challenge: April Showers
2. What was your favorite toy when you were a kid?(bonus for a pic)
3. Do you still own any VHS tapes or cassette tapes? DH does but it is all like old WWE tapes and stuff (insert sideeye).
4. Name your favorite past childhood TV Show. All the TGIF shows, SBTB.
5. What do you wish was around today (like a food brand or toy brand) that isn't anymore? The Baby-Sitters Club books, I loved them and wish I still had my full set for my daughter.
6. What would you consider your growing up years? 70s, 80s, 90s? Do you miss those years? Late 80s/90s. I do not miss the bad fashion or outdated electronics but it was definitely a simpler time to grow up (especially pre social media).
Me: 37, MH: 38; Married August 2017
TTC #1 October 2017: BFP on 12/1/2017, DD born 7/24/2018 @ 37+1 after induction due to preeclampsia
TTC #2 January 2020: AMA, dx with DOR in May 2020
IVF July 2020: 16 eggs retrieved, 14 mature, 12 fertilized, 3 blasts, 2 PGT-A normal
FET 10/7/20: BFP on 10/12/20!!! (EDD 6/25/21); First beta 10/16/20 (9dpt): 148; Second beta 10/19/20 (12dpt): 621; Third beta 10/26/20 (19dpt): 4732; Fourth (and final!) beta 11/2/20 (26 dpt): 22,000+
Totallt forgot about it! Loved it!
2. What was your favorite toy when you were a kid?(bonus for a pic)
BARBIES. OMG - I had so many Barbies. And She-Ra figures. My obsession with She-Ra was intense.
3. Do you still own any VHS tapes or cassette tapes? Nope. Wait - I did have a cassette tape my brother gave me that he made in high school but I lost it somewhere.
4. Name your favorite past childhood TV Show.
She-Ra, Smurfs, Muppet Show, and some drawing show I can't remember now... We also watched a ton of Nickelodeon. I'm probably showing my age real bad here, but also Contact and Reading Rainbow. I was an obsessive book nerd and would make my mom buy the books the kids reviewed on the show.
5. What do you wish was around today (like a food brand or toy brand) that isn't anymore?
CRYSTAL PEPSI! Jk jk - that stuff was horrid. I may have to think on this. Most of the stuff I ate as a kid I would probably throw up if I ate now.
6. What would you consider your growing up years? 70s, 80s, 90s? Do you miss those years?
I was a kid (elem. school) in the 80s and in high school in the 90s - so I guess a bit of both? Like others, I miss the 'simplicity' of it - no or low use of technology and just a general sense of safety. I know half the crap I did as a kid, I would be hesitant to let my kid do nowadays.
Me: 37 Him: 38
Married 11.07.2015
Me: 37 Him: 38
Married 11.07.2015
I was making a living as a poker player and had just quit my hotel front desk job. I was in college for Poli Sci, and trying to decide if I was going to pursue drama in any capacity. I really wanted to do some kind of behind the scenes work in television/ theater.
2. What was your favorite toy when you were a kid?(bonus for a pic)
Sports equipment. I was particularly into basketball, and wanted a free standing adjustable hoop SO badly.
3. Do you still own any VHS tapes or cassette tapes?
Just homemade recordings that I'd like to convert to digital. I convinced DH too get rid of most of our DVDs on our last move too. He's more of a pack rat, but I hate clutter.
4. Name your favorite past childhood TV Show.
Sesame Street was always my favorite until it got retooled for a younger audience. I loved Clarissa Explains It All as soon as we got cable, and that show introduced me to the concept of roller derby.
5. What do you wish was around today (like a food brand or toy brand) that isn't anymore?
I really liked cap guns, but those aren't PC anymore.
6. What would you consider your growing up years? 70s, 80s, 90s? Do you miss those years?
I'm very much a 90s kid. I don't have many culturally significant memories of the 80s, though I remember the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Gulf War was the first major news event that I followed.
DH:45
DSD: 20
DSS: 18
Team green baby due: Aug 6th, 2018
Dating DH, about to move in together and going back to school for my teaching license.
2. What was your favorite toy when you were a kid?(bonus for a pic)
My Little Pony (PSA, they have some of the originals at Target right now), Barbies, Sweet Secrets, Cabbage Patch Dolls. I was very girly.
3. Do you still own any VHS tapes or cassette tapes?
I’m the proud owner of the original Little Mermaid with the dildo on the cover. We have several others, too. I just can’t part with them.
4. Name your favorite past childhood TV Show.
Muppet Babies, Garfield and Friends, Gummy Bears (all of the Disney afternoon), 3 2 1 Contact, Square One, Reading Rainbow, and Full House.
5. What do you wish was around today (like a food brand or toy brand) that isn't anymore?
@lolog531 I’m with you on the Planters Cheez Balls. Those were the BEST!
6. What would you consider your growing up years? 70s, 80s, 90s? Do you miss those years?
I’d say 80s and 90s. I do miss those years and feel nostalgic a lot. I think I’m part of the last generation that started college without cell phones and Facebook. It was so simple. I can’t believe the 90s will be thirty years ago in just a couple years. Ugh.
I was a freshman in college, dating my high school sweetheart that went to military college an hour away from me.
2. What was your favorite toy when you were a kid?(bonus for a pic)
All of the baby dolls, I was obsessed with babies. I had a bitty baby that I loved and have saved for my kids. I wanted nothing more than to be a mom and treated those dolls like they were alive
3. Do you still own any VHS tapes or cassette tapes?
We did, but gave them to a friend who I babysat for when she had her girls. Although she said she saved them for me and will send them back now that I’m having a baby and her girls are older.
4. Name your favorite past childhood TV Show.
Rugrats! Again, loved anything baby. We have directv and they play rugrats reruns from 3:00-4:00am during the week, which coincidentally is usually the time I am awake and laying on the couch, so I’ve been watching and reminiscing when the pregnancy insomnia hits.
5. What do you wish was around today (like a food brand or toy brand) that isn't anymore?
Dunkaroos. Forget the cookies, I just wanted the frosting!
6. What would you consider your growing up years? 70s, 80s, 90s? Do you miss those years?
90s and yes I do. I loved the box car kid series and just wanted to play outside with my baby dolls all day long. I would like to go back to a time before social media when life just seemed a lot easier.
August 18 Siggy Challenge: April Showers
Me and my boyfriend of 5 years had just broke up and I was a manager at Starbucks
2. What was your favorite toy when you were a kid?(bonus for a pic)
Barbies, my little pony, polly pocket
3. Do you still own any VHS tapes or cassette tapes?
No my DH threw them away
4. Name your favorite past childhood TV Show.
Saved by the bell, punky bruster
5. What do you wish was around today (like a food brand or toy brand) that isn't anymore?
There was this drink called almond smash and it tasted like cherries, I would probably think it was too sweet now but boy did I love it!
6. What would you consider your growing up years? 70s, 80s, 90s? Do you miss those years?
i guess a mix of 80’s and 90’s and yes I miss the years before social media when everyone wasn’t obsessed with their phones and you could actually have conversations with people
Me: 37, MH: 38; Married August 2017
TTC #1 October 2017: BFP on 12/1/2017, DD born 7/24/2018 @ 37+1 after induction due to preeclampsia
TTC #2 January 2020: AMA, dx with DOR in May 2020
IVF July 2020: 16 eggs retrieved, 14 mature, 12 fertilized, 3 blasts, 2 PGT-A normal
FET 10/7/20: BFP on 10/12/20!!! (EDD 6/25/21); First beta 10/16/20 (9dpt): 148; Second beta 10/19/20 (12dpt): 621; Third beta 10/26/20 (19dpt): 4732; Fourth (and final!) beta 11/2/20 (26 dpt): 22,000+
2. What was your favorite toy when you were a kid?(bonus for a pic) All the typical ones - baby alive doll, strawberry shortcake... I guess overall I was big into Barbies for a long time.
3. Do you still own any VHS tapes or cassette tapes? Nope.
4. Name your favorite past childhood TV Show. So many, I agree with Fraggle Rock, also the classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the one about that family of dinosaurs. But I even miss 7th Heaven sometimes lol.
5. What do you wish was around today (like a food brand or toy brand) that isn't anymore? McDonalds Arch Deluxe, those strawberry shortcake ice cream bars they apparently still have in the USA, Dunkin Donuts coconut donut (just the coconut on top of the white glaze but still with a donut hole and no cream in the middle). Basically anything I like they always get rid of, I must have the most unique taste out there.
6. What would you consider your growing up years? 70s, 80s, 90s? Do you miss those years? 90s and I am certainly nostalgic about them and probably always will be, although I don't miss them. I am even a bit nostalgic about the late 80s even though it's when I was born.