A friend gave Bug It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown DVD. If you’re interested it’s usually running every 25 minutes or so from 7am until 8:30am and again from 6:45pm until 8:15pm at our house with various demand performances throughout the day. Meals and/or snacks along with free diaper changes are available. Stop by.
Obviously, Bug’s taken with it. What surprised me is how quickly I was taken back to my childhood. I feel as though my present self is hovering above the scene from long ago with my much younger self, mom and brother watching the Great Pumpkin in the kitchen, which meant my father was watching something else in the den. As a little sister I always related to Sally. I can remember dancing along with Snoopy as Schroeder is playing the piano. I wanted Charlie Brown to come to our house for tricks-or-treat so my mom could put something other than a rock in his bag. Oh, and I can clearly picture the Dolly Madison commercials that always ran during a Peanuts program and how desperately I wanted to try one but they weren’t sold in my town so that made them even more exotic.
I feel like this has been a full circle week from being a mother myself, to going back to a very vivid moment in my childhood to trying to be a long-distance caregiver to my mother who’s back in the hospital. Thanks Snoopy for bringing it all together.
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Yes, yes, yes. I can absolutely see how that would take you back - your words alone took me back... I, too, found Dolly Madison snack cakes alluring by their unavailability. so funny that you mentioned that... Enjoy your trip down Memory Lane!
ReplyDeleteAww. *sniff*
ReplyDeleteMy kids were obsessed with the obscure Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special a couple years ago. Go figure.
Aww, I love this story! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI know, this is exactly what I feel when that comes on! Or the Christmas movies too. I can even remember certain smells for some reason whenever A Christmas Story comes on.
ReplyDeleteAwwwwwwwwwwww
ReplyDeleteI love being taken back in time.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately a glance in the mirror brings me right back.
I always loved that one. It's the best Halloween special ever.
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry to hear that about your mom. It really does circle back around.
ReplyDeleteThe Great Pumpkin is the best special I've ever seen.
Wow, this is crazy! My little boy has been going nuts asking me over and over when this will be on TV until I broke the news that it had probably already aired. He came home from school today with the news that is on TV TONIGHT. So much for me knowing anything.
ReplyDeleteYou made so many wonderful observations; I love that you remember wanting those cakes because they weren't sold in your town. Where did you live though? :) I didn't realize they were a big city item!
This was such a sweet trip down memory lane...hugs for your mother.
I was a Charlie Brown for sure.
Isn't it funny how something like that can take you right back to being a child? It works that way for me too. :)
ReplyDeleteIt amazes me how a song, snippet of a movie or a scent can take you right back to a childhood memory.
ReplyDeleteI hope your Mom is doing OK!
~S
Man - I haven't seen that in years and I don't think my kidlets have ever seen it. They will this week, though!!! It was always so exciting for me when the Charlie Brown shows came on network TV. It meant the holiday was looming. SO COOL! Good memories. I'll hold your Mom in my prayers.
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