My Dream Playset

Hi! My name is Shannon and I want to tell you about my Dream Book!  When I was 6 years old, I began to tell my mom about my dreams.  So, Mom gave me a notebook to draw or write about my dreams. As long as I can remember, I would go to a place in my dreams to play.  It was a huge green meadow where I talked to animals, practiced flying and played.  I came to the meadow for lots of different reasons, restlessness, stress but mostly just for fun, I think.  There was only one thing that was ALWAYS there. I would be running through the grass look up and there it would be…towering…standing strong in the sun…My Playset!

The playset in my dreams, was always made of a beautiful red wood, just like the deck beside our house.  It would thrill me to run to the true “king of the playset” – the slide! Climb the ladder, stand tall looking out over my meadow.  The slide would seem so very high! I would grip each side, sit down and slip down the slippery slide fast as lightning, sometimes tumbling onto the grass laughing.  My body never seemed to jump and run fast enough for me, as I would run to slide down again and again and again.  The playset changed many times throughout my life and so did its slides. Some were bumpy and fast, some would spin you round and about, some were very, very high!

My dream playset always had a fort! At first my fort was below. I would run in and out, play school, and pretend it was my house.  As I got older my fort would get higher and higher – it would be the inside of my pirate ship or a rocket, preparing to shoot me to the moon! Finally, it would be my hideaway, my place to read and relax and think about life.  I still loved standing on the upper deck looking out across my dream meadow.

Fun is Our Middle Name

Oh, and the swings!  The playset in my dreams would of course have swings.  I would hop on a swing and begin to feel the sway of going up then back. Oh, what a feeling! It is the closest feeling to flying a kid can have, falling back, your legs spread out upon the sky, more like wings than anything. There were swings that went round and round, swings that went up and back, swings to stand on and even swings you got to swing with a friend!

Sometimes my playset would have new and different things to play on.  It would have a sandbox to dig up things one night then the next night I would sell lemonade to all my friends! I loved it when it had a place to make mud pies, or a tic tac toe set to play with a friend. My favorite was the rock-climbing wall.  I so loved the feeling of grasping a rock to pull my body up the wall step by step! Having the goal to make it to the top, then moving my hands and feet just right to step up top in triumph.

I am grown now, and the guys at Backyard Fun Factory perfectly created the playset from my dreams.  It sits beautifully in my “backyard meadow” today.  I have my own swing below the deck of our playset where I can relax and watch my kids living the dreams of my boyhood. The feeling is incredible!  Yes, I still visit my dream meadow and yes, my giant redwood playset remains.

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