Fourth x Three

In order to keep Austin son and daughter from having to trek out to Georgetown three times in one month, Fio and Husband proposed combining their BDs--his in late June and hers in mid-July--with the family Fourth of July celebration. Son, of course, brought his lovely wife with him, and Daughter brought her BF.  There was joy and laughter and a card and a gift and far too much good food. The hit of the show was Daughter's BF, who cooked the hamburgers to a chef's perfection. If he will attend, Fio will try to sneak in a second celebration when her real BD rolls around.
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Fiorella did it again--came up with a clever, cheap, last-minute holiday decoration.  And all it took was a pair of scissors, Scotch tape, and colored paper, which Fio has mounds of.  First she cut a couple of pages of red paper and blue paper into strips about an inch wide. Then she cut a three pages of white paper into strips.  Next she taped the strips into a kindergarten chain--red-white-blue-white etc. Then she drooped the chain across the fireplace, draping the sides and taping the center of the chain upward to the middle of the mantel. Topping the upward center was a fan-type cockade she made by taping three leftover strips together horizontally. Took about twenty minutes in all.
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Daughter gave Fio a DVD of My Big Fat Greek Wedding2 for Fourth of July/Fio's birthday so Husband ran it for her yesterday evening.  It's Fio's kind of movie--sweet, sentimental, and funny. She laughed and cried and made mewing noises at the happy ending. Try it--you'll like it.

Happy Fourth!

Let's fire off a couple of Fourth of July rockets in the direction of the GOP presidential candidate. Yes, Fiorella is an unabashed Trumpie junkie. In fact, he's her favorite comedian.  She rolls on the floor with laughter at every jewel of jackassery that falls from his lips.
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An Important Question

We have special candy for Christmas, for Valentine's Day, for Easter, and for Halloween.  But where, pray tell, is our Fourth of July candy? Our red, white, and blue candy canes, our chocolate Liberty Bells and Statues of Liberty?

Candy makers of the world, we're waiting for your answer.

Thankfulness

Daughter and Austin Son&Wife, complete with food and fireworks, came over to spend the evening of Fourth of July with us.  It was a classic family scene--Norman Rockwell to the core.  Fio went maudlin.  This is the sort of family get-together she has always dreamed of, but has only recently begun to happen.

God is good.

Red, White, and Blue

Whew! What a relief! It looks like the GOP has a good potential candidate in Jon Huntsman, who's taking the high road. Fio supports Obama for four more years, but, from what she's seen of Huntsman, he's a good man. We'll see what happens come election time.

And elections are what the United States is all about. Sure, we won the right to have elections through a bloody rebellion, but it was what we did afterwards that was more important. Rebellions are easy and can happen at the drop of a hat. Libya revolted forty-some years ago and set up a multi-layered democracy, but political parties were banned, and presidents had no term limits. We all know what happened next: Gaddafi.

So hooray for the red, white, and blue, for the Constitution and Bill of Rights, for democracy, and for the two-party system. Happy Fourth!

The Fourth Again

My fondest childhood memory of July Fourth is writing my name in the dark night with sparklers. That and Mr.Paule setting fire to his roof with Roman candles.
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Given the current state of world affairs, How ironic that we celebrate our greatest national holiday with fireworks from China.
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Husband set off a few bottle rockets, then went to bed early. He was sleepy, and besides, it's not as much fun without a gaggle of excited kids as an audience. Sigh.

HAPPY FOURTH!

Fiorella wishes for you
A Happy Fourth of July.
May your barbecue be tasty
May your bottle rockets fly
Up past the sleeping moon
In the nighttime sky.