July 4, 2008 by Mary Owlhaven
On the agenda:
–An afternoon of filling many, many water balloons. ,
– 6 PM –BBQ’d hamburgers, chips, watermelon, these lovely nibbles, and these spiffy drinks for dinner
–7 PM–An intense family water balloon battle.
–8:00 PM Movie night (Shark Tale)
–10:00 PM Swimming in the DARK–oh, the joy!– while watching the fireworks from a nearby town.
I'm Mary, wife to John, and mom to 10 kids ages 3-20. Six of them were adopted, from Ethiopia and Korea. I spend my days applying Bandaids, reminding kids to use their inside voices, persuading kids fractions are useful, cooking spicy ethnic food, and snapping gig after gig of pictures. Very late at night, I write about it all.
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HAve an awesome day!
Sounds like a lovely day!
Duckabush Blog Dh and I have been working on some ‘tomato-staking’ parenting. A true challenge. You might be interested in reading about it.
Two of our sons are home from their college apartments.
One walked his bicycle, the other hitched a ride with a friend who has a van.
I did all the grocery shopping this week, as per their e-mailed lists.
One son marinated salmon fillets for the grill, the other chopped fresh garlic cloves and proceeded to broil a wonderfully flavored toast.
All I did was set some veges in the microwave.
Meanwhile, my husband was doing bicycle repair duty.
We are about to chauffeur one an hour’s drive back so he can feed his cat.
Hope yours is going well!
~~love and Huggs, Diane
Sounds like a great day! Enjoy!
~Amy
I imagine you had a fabulous day!! Happy 4th!
Steph
Do you think you could make those drinks in red, yellow and green?
There’s still the red cranberry juice, yellow gatorade—but what to use for green?
It sounds like you have a wonderful holiday at your house! Wow, do you kep busy with all those kids!!
Thanks so much for coming by my blog the other day. I hope to meet you at BlogHer, too!
Sounds like SO much fun!! Pioneer Woman’s nibbles are the best. I made her flag cake this year and it was *amazing*!!