HAPPY "BE A KID AGAIN" DAY!!

Song: I Won't Grow Up!

Artist: Peter Pan, the musical

Happy "Be A Kid Again" Day!! 🧒🍭

Man, I miss the blissful ignorance of youth! What I would give to go back to my childhood. Where my days were filled with Barbie dolls, computer games, running around outside all day with friends, make believe games, bike rides all over the neighborhood, roller blading, lemonade stands, when I could eat whatever I wanted and not have to worry about my waistline, before I had bills to pay and needed a job and had all this stress and worry. Those truly were the good ol' days! 😌

The summertime makes me so nostalgic for my childhood. There is nothing like being a kid in the summer! Your days are spent lazy and playful. The only "bad" thing that happened to you were chores. I get more nostalgic during the summer than at Christmas because you can never really get too old for Christmas (I mean besides the magic of Santa Claus...the day my mother informed of who Old Saint Nick, that Jolly Old Man really was...I was heartbroken! 😭💔 Yes, I cried! I had diligently wrote and mailed my Christmas List to Santa every year! I believed in him even when "dumb kids" at school said he wasn't real. "Guess you're getting coal for Christmas!" That's one thing about Christmas that makes me nostalgic...believing with all my heart in Santa! The thrill of waking up to find the milk and cookies gone and in their place, toys! Santa always came through for me!). I always get the urge to ride my bike or go to the park, eat snow cones and ice-cream, run through the sprinklers and throw water balloons! 

This daily holiday (from my calendar) made me smile! I still love everything from my childhood and being a kid! I miss my nannying jobs because they gave me an excuse to embrace my inner child! I am always my most creative when planning things for children. I love the simplicity, innocence and sheer, unbridled joy that come from children and childhood! 

Life has been becoming increasingly more challenging for me lately and I am finding myself more than ever wanting to go back in time to the good ol' days. Before I had to stress and worry. Before acne and grey hairs. Before aches and pains and trying to lose the  weight I've accumulated from so much stress eating (without success I might add)! 

This song came to my mind as I've reflected on childhood and about the care-free days of being a kid! Peter Pan knew what was up!

I won't grow up

(I won't grow up)

I don't wanna go to school

(I don't wanna go to school)

Just to learn to be a parrot

(Just to learn to be a parrot)

And recite a silly rule

(And recite a silly rule)

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree

I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up... Not me

Not I

Not me (not me)

I won't grow up

(I won't grow up)

I don't wanna wear a tie

(I don't wanna wear a tie)

Or a serious expression

(Or a serious expression)

In the middle of July

(In the middle of July)

And if it means I must prepare to shoulder burdens with a worries air

I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up... Not me

Not I

Not me... so there

Never gunna be a man (I won't)

Like to see somebody try (and make me)

Anyone who wants to try and make me turn me into a man...

Well catch me if you can

I won't grow up

(I won't grow up)

Not a penny will I pinch

(Not a penny will I pinch)

I will never grow a moustache

(I will never grow a moustache)

For a fraction of an inch

(For a fraction of an inch)

Cause growing up is awfuler than all the awful things that ever were

I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up... no sir

Not I, not me, so there

Never grow up,

Never grow up,

Never grow up, never grow up,

Never grow up, never grow up,

Never grow up, not me, not me, not me, not me, not me

AMEN!!

I've been seeing this commercial a lot lately and it always makes me laugh! This is how I want to be living life when I'm 80!! 😂