The past week has been crazy! It was spent getting ready for the 4th of July which keeps edging it's way to the spot of my top favorite holiday each year. There's just something nostalgic and wonderful about the unbridled celebration and joy of loving your country even from within the one you worked so hard to become independent from. To prepare for the big day, I spent too much time watching youtube nail tutorials by @missjenfabulous https://www.youtube.com/user/MissJenFABULOUS and she really is fabulous! I even impressed myself with the final product which only took.....oh....about 3 hours (including drying time). I am hopelessly perfectionistic™ (yep, look out Merriam Webster! We'll be using the dictionary of Jenneal from now on)
Fast forward to the bbq......
Everything went smoothly and we all had a great time. Since we live in the city, we couldn't properly do s'mores over a campfire so I ended up making them in the oven. They lacked that beautiful taste of burning wood and burnt marshmallow that I love ever so much but they were actually pretty delightful. And I finally found some delicious gluten free digestive biscuits (for my fellow Americans, digestive biscuits are a sightly more buttery graham cracker but in cookie form). I felt like I was on my own little patriotic island surrounded by a sea of British-ness. The only thing missing were some awe-inspiring fireworks. I was starting to feel like we were going to actually pull off the entire day without a hitch. Nope! At the end of the evening we found ourselves being attacked by swarms flies who refused to be left out of the celebrations. Then next morning I woke up the next morning to my poor little girl retching. Then my tiny son decided he wasn't going to bed until 9pm after only having a short nap on his Daddy. But I refuse to let it get me down. On the bright side, our house has never been so disinfected! I am even considering renting our house out as a pop up surgery venue. If I would have bothered to buy stock in Dettol, I'd be writing this in the Caribbean just from yesterday's events. These little instances, however heartbreaking, always bring me out of the clouds and remind me that there is a new adventure around the corner.
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