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My son celebrated his birthday this weekend.  It was lots of fun and he got some pretty cool gifts.  I always find it interesting to think that, my kids are building memories at every turn.  Years from now my son may remember this birthday because it was his first time bowling or because he got some cool Pokemon toys and got to go to Mc Donalds.  Or he might not remember it at all.  Lost in the sea of thoughts and experiences that we all store in our heads.

I’d like to think that I can remember quite a lot of my time as a kid.  Not everything of course.  My earliest memories are playing with my Spider-Man toy in the living room of our town house, touching the base of a hot iron and putting on finger puppet plays with my Mom.  I think I was about 3 or 4.  The collection of memories seems pretty good from when I was young.  As I get older though I find that I can’t remember the day to day stuff as well as I used to.  It’s kind of scary to think that there are events in your life that as just gone.  I do suppose that something could trigger them as they’re still in your head somewhere.  Never truly forgotten… just sort of lost.

How far back can you remember?