Our town has a Fourth of July parade every year, and the kids love it because people in cool cars throw them candy. Max and Khai wore red, white and blue, and I colored their hair blue for the day. They scorned my lack of patriotic clothing.
Me, to Josh: I don’t even own a single red shirt.
Josh: There’s a good reason for that.
Me: ??
Josh: If you leave the ship in a red shirt, YOU DON’T COME BACK.
Me: !!! You’re right. I’ve been subconsciously programmed.
Red shirts are bad.
Happy Fourth, y’all. Go blow stuff up!!!
This last weekend I went to Portland to see Matt & Jenny. Since I am so overwhelmingly generous, I took some Texas weather with me. I mean really, 100 degrees? In Portland? Since when does that happen? In spite of the heat, we had a great time– there are few people in the world that I’d be content to just sit and sweat with while talking of toasters and playlists.
I took exactly one photo while in Portland, mostly because I was distracted by all of the interesting and very photo-worthy sights. We took two trips to the Hawthorne District, where I struggled to not buy something in each and every store we visited. The coffee flows freely there, and it seems we averaged two coffee stops each day I was there (happy sigh). On Sunday we hit the Saturday Market and browsed the wonderfully eclectic booths– everything from jewelry and paintings to ceramics and windchimes. I bought a fantastic, quirky skirt that I’ll post a pic of soon. OH, Jenny and I also got haircuts! I’ve not had a haircut since last September so I was in dire need of something different. Now if only I could make it look like the stylist did…
Upon returning home, I was greeted by The Most Awesome Husband Ever and some very hyper children. We’ve easily fallen back into our routine: dishes, workbooks, laundry, boardgames, baths. Yesterday I took the kids to see WALL-E and their love for the movie inspired them to create a robot named Zappy. Be careful, he shoots boogers, bubbles and bees. Also, he has an alarm that will sound if he doesn’t know you. Watch out, he can become invincible and can get stronger by getting a one-up. I will sleep well tonight knowing that I am well-guarded by such an impressive robot security team.
Gluten-free graham crackers are next on the agenda. Hopefully they will be a bit less crunchy this time, as I think I left out the baking powder in the last batch. Oops.