i want to make a memory today - suggestion??

the other wend I quite last min decided to have a 'night out' with my 7yo!!

This meant we went out to the cinema and then over to a local bowling alley for tea and played on the slot machines - we know how to live!!

It was actually really good fun

Great thread! We're booked up on visiting this week but next week we're free...I might take my DDs on a bike ride/nature trail....we have to choose cheap activities...maybe I can pack an Enid Blyton picnic and have that!

Moo min - the effects of feeling nice feelings are there whether there is full memory recall. It is called emotional memory.

Sadly, the evidence of children who had shit emotional experiences in early life is massive, the opposite is true too.

So for example, feeling 'special' on your birthday will have an impact on your self esteem and emotinal development whether you can recall the actual birthday events in later life.

What a lovely thread.

We do adventures all the time, i love it and so do the children. The train or bus makes it all the more fun :-)

I like the afternoon tea idea, it brought back a memory of when my mum took me to selfridges for tea and bought me a manicure set.

Off to look on ebay for a soda stream...

Go for a bike ride and just see where you end up, we did try taking every left turn but did end up in someone's back garden going in a big circle.

DS likes this one, I find him trickier than DD.

I am a miserable old cynic, but seriously, how much do you remember from when you were 4? I am discussing this thread with DH and my older teens and we are all in agreement you may as well keep your kids in a cellar until they are about 12.
On the other hand me and DH have nice memories of when the kids were little and I suppose it's all stored away in their subconscious.

Some lovely ideas on this thread.

May I just add my favourite tip for making ordinary wine into bubbly? Use the soda stream, if you have one, £5 blossom hill champers! It's ace!

I haven't soda streamed my wine for ages, I'm going to do it this weekend

It's funny, I try and do this sort of thing on a regular basis but the stuff they remember most is when things go wrong. Missed trains,taking 6 hours to get home in snow, falling into ponds (DD, not me)
Although we did spontaneously watch Olly Murs last week [yum]

We also do public transport ones a lot. Got on the train on Saturday with no firm plans about what we'd do once we got to our destination. When we left the station DS spotted some boats in the harbour so we walked down to the end of the harbour and watched the boats coming in and out. Was grand.

It was mainly brough on due to the snow. I'm fed up of not being able to drive or go for walks around here. Fingers crossed we can go walking tomorrow and look for some diggers.

We also go to agricultural sales or shows fairly regularly. There are two marts within half an hour of us so we go there for cattle or sheep sales. Nobody minds me and the toddler being there. There are often children around, especially in the holidays.

This is a great idea for a thread, thank you Mimstar!

We did something similar today, we (the DC's and I) got on a bus and went to a different beach, we didn't get on the beach but got splashed by the waves over the wall then to a playpark and hopped on another bus to a little town for tea/juice, Ice cream and cakes.

This doesn't sound much, but I have anxiety issues and it's the furthest I've been on my own since DS2 was born. We had a riot and DS1 was so happy!

Tomorrow we are off to a local farm to feed the chicks and little lambs, then I'll take the DC off on a bus trip to who knows where for adventure and lunch.

I want to make these memories for my children too.

One of my fondest memories is a random drive with my mum to Southend, and coming across the airshow, we managed to get parked and we had doughnuts while sitting on the grass bank. It was a lovely day

Aww lovely stories.

The OH was in bed with flu on Mother's Day, so I made my own treat, but it's definitely a good memory...Afternoon tea for 4 year old DS and me. He had warm ribena in a mug, and I had coffee. On our tiered cake stand I put a selection of our favourite sandwiches, crisps, and all the different cakes and biscuits I could find in the house. It was fab and he loved it.

DS loves riding on trains and different numbered buses so any adventure that involves public transport he remembers forever and refers back to it.

I think getting up in the night for any reason, star gazing or midnight walk or bat spotting is very exciting. And cheap!

ep - could you do a full turkey dinner and have an Eastmas day? or is the snow just not funny anymore?

Can't think of anything Breif encounter? Although im not sure that is something to watch with your husband :)

If money was no object i think i would like to have a horse ride with DD, just a plod around for an hour through the orchards - sigh, thats on my "list" i think.

these are great to read, been snowed for a week now and I miss trips out to our local country park and also our trips to feed the ducks,

Lovely idea Mimstar :) glad you are in good health.

DS (3) likes going on adventures, I take a bucket to put 'treasure' (stones, pretty leaves etc) in and I let him lead the way, we live in a really urban area so it's mainly houses and shops but he loves going different ways and finding secret lanes and we run up and down the streets shouting and pretending to be pirates

My parents certainly had their moments of crazy, but as a young kid is was mostly good crazy. Some of my memories are just of short moments like one day it was chucking it down with rain outside and my mum made me wear a warm coat and wellies and we just went outside and JUMPED in these massive puddles till we were soaked through and freezing. Then we went back home.

I'm starting to feel like a memory making guru!

Mimstar, glad you had a nice afternoon and thank you for starting this thread!!
Your idea sounds great, movie, champagne and chips lol.

Many moons ago I booked DH and I on an indian head and neck massage course for half a day. It was brilliant:).

Hot dogs and champagne - i think you can pay exhorbitant prices for this ina posh hotel in london, very en vogue! (just buy some prosecco and then you can afford a big bottle ) I have a bottle of champagne in the fridge.............AND some crisps DP has a cold though and we have already polished off a bottle of pink "wine". What film will you watch??

I jumped on the train with DD to london last year, didn't have a CLUE where we were going - just got off the train at victoria and looked on the tube map. We ended up at the national history museum (i couldnt have chosen a busier day if i tried) and then had pizza express.

Am now thinking about a "spontaneous" jolly for tomorrow so will watch thread with interest. Like the idea of afternoon tea but it is so expensive around here and we are a bit strapped.

These are such nice ideas! Thank you for the inspiration, please post more if you have!!!

We celebrate achievements/ milestones with a meal out. DD choses the restaurant/menu, she gets to pay ( with our money) and feels all grown up and important:).

I tend to be spontaneous like this abroad, here, I've got a lot to learn from happydutchmummy :). Thank you.