My Childhood Playground

hidden in my memories is a playground ... where I played ... as a young girl with my friends I remember it so clearly like I am there the children laughing and shouting running around it is a nice memory to recall ~ the playground was not far from our home and I went every single day except in the rain to play on the swings because they were my favorite- I went higher and higher ~ at that time there were seesaws (teeter totters) monkey bar structures and merry-go-round spinners but, nowadays they are considered too dangerous so playgrounds in my city don't have them anymore but they exist in my memories ... ~ sometimes mom made me bring my little brother so, I would put him in the sandbox oh, that kid could spend the day building stuff ~ our park had a wading pool shallow on one end but a little deeper on the other like waist deep of course, there was always staff around for safety I really liked the slides and little bro did too I remember the playground as being quite large the ground was grass ... and parts had sand in the winter there was a skating rink that I 'loved' ... ~ lots of wonderful and forever memories I have from those carefree childhood days in the playground and of summer and winter delight ... ... now, let me gather up my yesteryear memories and put them away ~