Today I am grateful for all the work I did, preparing side salads and par-cooking and marinating various meats so that meal time was quick and easy all weekend long. It allowed us a nice variety of foods and little time spent cooking, which led to happy tummies and more time to spend with a visiting friend.
Today I am grateful for my friend “E”, who’s visits always lift my spirits and make me smile. Work keeps her very busy and she is not close (about 4 hours away), but we are planning to go down and visit her in the Fall (and visit the MD Renn Faire) and she is planning on coming back up in advance of Xmas/Yule to share the holidays and once again bake too many cookies.
Today I am grateful for a weekend full of bright blue skies and white puffy clouds. I am grateful for an uncrowded community pool that we were able to spend time in Friday, Saturday, and today. We floated, and swam, and sat reading in the sun. We even had a picnic lunch there on the 4th!!
Today I am grateful for the local fireworks display and for convenient seating on the lawn of a local eating establishment right next to where everything was being set off. I am grateful to running into acquaintances from the kids’ Taekwondo class which made their evening just a little bit more special as the four kids all sat enthralled on my old woolen cloak as the sky was lit up overhead.
I am almost grateful that the weekend is over, as I am tired from too much sun and too much fun. But it was one of the best holiday weekends that we’ve had in a long time and I think it was good for all of our souls.
The Fourth of July is a day to be with family and friends. It is a day to eat too much and get sunburned. It is a day to light sparklers and lick Popsicles, but it is also a day to remember the origins of our nation, the birth of our country. And while it, like any other country, has its flaws and failings, today I am also grateful to live in a land where I am free, and for all of those who have given their lives, who have made sacrifices in body, mind, and spirit, to allow it to be so. I am also grateful to those fine men and women who are willing every day to make that sacrifice themselves that it may continue to be thus.
Blessings to you
Mama Kelly
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