let freedom ring (but not too loudly - we're sleeping in)
thunder rumbled all night, and the sky is getting dark again, darker at 8 am than it was at 6. i'm sure it means a non-sunny day and much soggy grass at all the parks, which may mean we do our picnicking at home today and just take chairs or sit on the car to watch fireworks tonight (if they don't get rained out). but i don't care. i love rainy days, especially if i get to spend them with justin. there's something very cozy about being shut in with him when there's rain for backdrop noise. i did buy a groovy tabletop grill last night and cookout food galore, but worst-case scenario is we cook it all in the kitchen and sit on the porch to eat it and save the grill for another time. it would be okay.
we have so many fantastic things to eat over the course of the day: boca italian sausages with whole wheat rolls and fresh mozzarella, fresh sweet corn, fresh organic strawberries and sugar-free cool-whip, veggie riblets, whole wheat garlic bread, broccoli slaw, sugar-free lemonade and cherry limeade, and the big finish: trader joe's old-fashioned graham crackers and miniature sugar-free hershey bars (minus marshmallows, which justin won't eat for vegetarian reasons and i just plain despise) for s'mores. how could it get any better than that???
i suppose i wouldn't have the opportunity to have this day if it weren't the fourth, but i have a hard time thinking about the meaning of the day. it's pretty hard to celebrate freedom from tyranny when i feel like there's a certain amount of tyranny reining over this country these days. i know that i do have freedoms i wouldn't have elsewhere. i'm not naive. i've been lucky to travel as i have, and even in some supposedly free societies, there are some with much tighter social strictures than we have here. i do appreciate my luck at being born in this country. but i'd like to see my country behaving a little better, which is pretty depressing. so i'm focusing today on my freedom, and justin's, to spend the whole day together. next fourth of july, with an 11 month old in tow, i'm sure we'll pine for freedom in a whole new way.
it's definitely breakfast in bed weather, so i'm off to put something together with which to wake up poor justin, who's worked two sixteen-hour days in a row but still has to get up to go to this morning's NST. happy 4th.
we have so many fantastic things to eat over the course of the day: boca italian sausages with whole wheat rolls and fresh mozzarella, fresh sweet corn, fresh organic strawberries and sugar-free cool-whip, veggie riblets, whole wheat garlic bread, broccoli slaw, sugar-free lemonade and cherry limeade, and the big finish: trader joe's old-fashioned graham crackers and miniature sugar-free hershey bars (minus marshmallows, which justin won't eat for vegetarian reasons and i just plain despise) for s'mores. how could it get any better than that???
i suppose i wouldn't have the opportunity to have this day if it weren't the fourth, but i have a hard time thinking about the meaning of the day. it's pretty hard to celebrate freedom from tyranny when i feel like there's a certain amount of tyranny reining over this country these days. i know that i do have freedoms i wouldn't have elsewhere. i'm not naive. i've been lucky to travel as i have, and even in some supposedly free societies, there are some with much tighter social strictures than we have here. i do appreciate my luck at being born in this country. but i'd like to see my country behaving a little better, which is pretty depressing. so i'm focusing today on my freedom, and justin's, to spend the whole day together. next fourth of july, with an 11 month old in tow, i'm sure we'll pine for freedom in a whole new way.
it's definitely breakfast in bed weather, so i'm off to put something together with which to wake up poor justin, who's worked two sixteen-hour days in a row but still has to get up to go to this morning's NST. happy 4th.
posted by laura at 8:04 AM
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