Childhood Memories

By Ingrid Habib

We do not remember days; we remember moments. In Childhood Memories, author Ingrid Habib shares a collection of her memories from her childhood, an important time in ones life to create positive, lasting impressions.

Ingrid offers a variety of snippets from her young life that include reminisces of family, friends, experiences, places, and more. From playing dress up and make-believe, to celebrating holidays and birthdays, to riding the bus and attending school, Ingrid narrates a selection of remembrances that impacted her early years. She remembers that happiness was togetherness.

Through Childhood Memories, Ingrid hopes to inspire others to preserve their own memories and to nurture and love the child in each of us.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Sep 26, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543743357

Ingrid Habib

Ingrid a pass plusieurs annes au Liban, puis en Afrique levant et duquant ses deux enfants. prsent elle vit la montagne, au Liban. Rcemment elle est devenue grand-mre. Elle aime tre en plein air et elle prend plaisir avec les choses simples de la vie. Elle adore passer du temps avec sa famille. Son loisir prfr est de crer des collages en utilisant une multitude dobjets et bien quelle aie le mal de mer, la plage est son endroit favori.

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Copyright © 2017 Ingrid Habib. All rights reserved.

ISBN

978-1-5437-4334-0 (sc)

978-1-5437-4335-7 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017954411

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Contents

Preface

The House in Bourjhammoud

The Warehouse of Treasures

The Washing Place

The Main Room

Time for Make-Believe

Sign Language

Overview of the Narrow Street

Dede

Easter Gathering

Innocent and Faithful

Waiting for the Chocolates

Souvenirs

Papy

Mamy

Ely

Inez

Tastes of My Childhood

Sundays in wintertime

The Girl by the Pond

Our Birthdays

Mamy Coming Back from London

Teta and Jeddo

Aunt Violette

Aunts Sisi and Nora

Uncles Hampo and Levon

School Bus Wait

School in Gemayzeh

Ballet Lessons

La Pleiade

Childhood Friends

Alita Mar Chalitta

Little Changes

Certain Responsibilities

Summer in Dhour El Choueir

View of the Sea

Epilogue

Nature’s Rhapsody

Special dedication to Tayseer, Amin and Layla.

Thank you for being the treasures of my life.

I thank you for always supporting, encouraging, inspiring me with all things of life.

I thank you with all my heart and soul for everything that you are.

In loving memory of my father in law Amin M. Habib.

Preface

We do not remember days; we remember moments. Precious moments of childhood gone by. Why are those memories so dearly cherished? Maybe because of nostalgia for a time that can’t come back. And yet, as parents we try our best to lay a strong foundation of happy memories for our children to hold in the future.

The House in Bourjhammoud

Beirut 1968–1969

I must have been seven or eight years old at the time. My maternal grandparents lived in a two-storey house on a narrow street of Bourjhammoud. It was a house full of life and love. Not only did Dede (grandfather in Armenian) and Mendzmama (grandmother) live there but also my aunt Violette; my