It's Easter Sunday. Our family gathered for brunch, followed by key lime pie and mimosas. Afterwards, everyone hung out on the sofas talking and the subject "What is your earliest memory?" came up.

One cousin remembered bouncing off the side of a moving car as she ran across the street without looking at age 5. Another watched her older sister fall down the stairs and break her collarbone when she was only 4. Mom said it was climbing into an ice truck that took off while she was eating the ice. She had to jump and ended up getting gravel dug out of her face and knees. My brother's fiancee grew up on a farm. Helping deliver calves, take care of chickens,