We had little, but had all.
Oh, such wisdom in those words, lysie! So true and so sad!
You have really sparked some memories for all of us, I suspect.
In our neighborhood were kids of all ages ..... and there were summer nights of catching lightning bugs and playing hide and seek ......
..... catching June bugs and tying a string around their legs and letting them fly around before setting them loose ......
..... playing Mother May I and Red Rover (now banned in many schools) and hopscotch and cops & robbers or cowboys & Indians ......
...... looking at the Venus fly traps that grew wild next to a small creek up the street (they grow wild only within about a 50-mile radius of where I grew up) .....
..... playing marbles and trading baseball cards ..... riding bikes and roller skating ......
..... such innocence we had!
And so much better off we were for it.
First graders know more now than I did when I got married ..... *sigh*
As you said, we didn't have the material things ...... but what we had was priceless!