Summer

This nine dollar slip'n'slide didn't come with much slip or slide, but it was still a fun day out in our backyard a week or so ago. The grass is coming in nicely and, man, are we enjoying all the SPACE. Last year at this time we had nothing but a concrete back patio. However, as I recall, the kiddie pool we had back there was very well-used! It was HOT in Oaxaca, Mexico!

We're enjoying our first Fourth of July in the USA in several years. Having been outside the country most of their lives, our children are completely unaccustomed to this kind of celebration. We keep trying to explain it to Brooklyn and it isn't really sinking in. We enjoyed a cowboy pancake breakfast and parade in town. Pure Americana! Our kids don't really know what to do with it all. We're looking forward to taking them to the fireworks show this evening.
They have seen fireworks - on New Year's Eve especially - but not on this level!

Happy Independence Day!

"You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4th, not with a parade of guns, tanks and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think that you have overeaten, but it is patriotism." Erma Bombeck