We are rafting all day on Sunday over in Eastern Oregon with a guide outfit. It should be a fun day. DH is camping the week after. DD, the dog and I will go back home on Monday afternoon. My neighborhood is normally a war zone. I will drug the dog and try and get DD in bed before it gets too bad so she hopefully will sleep through. DD has practice all week and I have to work all week.
No traditions other than we try to not be home to avoid the crazy.
Post by supertrooper1 on Jun 28, 2022 13:17:21 GMT -5
Beau has an annual party at his house. People bring their trailers and eat lots of food. We're camping at his house from Saturday through Tuesday. I took Tuesday off.
No plans at this point. DH really wants to have people over to swim and grill, but my anxiety is in overdrive. I think it's due to the new ADHD meds, so I've stopped them for now. Having people here is like a huge deal for me anyway, and when I'm feeling like I have been, I just can't do it. So I'm hoping to rally a bit for DH.
I looove the 4th of July and get sad if we don't have big plans. I think that comes from going to college in DC. My friends and I would stay there for the summer and we'd go to the Washington monument for fireworks. Yet I'm perfectly happy to spend Christmas alone
Since moving to California/having kids, we go to the Pacific Northwest for the 4th of July most years and do half of the trip on our own and half with friends who live up there (and one other family who flies in from Colorado). I like that we can take 4 days off from work but have a 9-day trip when we include weekends. So that's what we're doing again this year. We'll be in Northern Idaho for the 4th itself, and the little town has a parade and a fireworks show - our rental condo has a balcony with a view of the lake so we should be able to see the fireworks from there (after putting the little kids to bed if necessary). I love fireworks but DH hates crowds, so hopefully it will be a win-win.
Then on July 6th we drive to meet our friends for 4 nights in Sunriver/Bend. There will be a total of 14 kids and 12 adults in two houses. Several of the kids are really young, so I don't expect to get great sleep, but it will be fun.
We are visiting family this week. We’ll head back on the 3rd most likely and not do much for the actual holiday. It’s usually quieter at home anyway.
I visited my dad and it went fine. But then he sent me a text message of the transcript of some of our conversation, and it’s obvious he was recording it without our permission. I find this super bizarre but if course he was in the psych ward and now on antipsychotics but still very strange. I texted my sister but nothing back from her yet.
We always spend the 4th with my parents at their house at the lake. This year I didn’t want to assume that was our plan without asking beau and his response was “For the rest of our lives I will want to drink beer at the lake with your family for the 4th” haha
We will head up Friday mid-day and then come home Monday morning. We have the kids for the weekend but they swap houses Monday night so we probably won’t see any fireworks with them this year.
Post by sandandsea on Jun 28, 2022 20:42:25 GMT -5
Dh and ds1 will be out of state for a race over the long weekend so it’s just me and the little guy at home. We have no plans except he gets to sleep in my big bed while Dh is gone.
We will just be back from vacation, so we have no plans. Which sounds pretty damn awesome right now. I’m thoroughly enjoying just sort of going with the flow this week.
I was texting with a friend, and we might try to find a protest to attend. To be blunt, I’m not feeling like celebrating the Puritans breaking away from the UK right now. If I were in Great Britain, or if we were still part of Great Britain, I would still have a right to bodily autonomy.
A few miles from my house is a road that several friends live. Further down that road, is sparsely populated where 2 different friends have getaway houses with lakes. So we are going between all the houses this weekend.
Friday a barbeque and homemade ice cream to celebrate a new baby. Sunday either pontooning on the lake or someone's pool. Sunday is a barbeque contest with swimming and fireworks.
waverly, you might want to tell the psych ward about that. It is bizarre.
My sister is authorized to communicate with the doctors. She didn’t respond to my text but I will see her today and we can talk in person about it.
The conversation was benign. We attempted to keep it pleasant and off any difficult topics. But it was very strange that he recorded it and then sent me a text of the recording. I don’t know if it was paranoia or ha I got you. Because the tone of the rest of the visit was positive. Before the psych ward he would send “gotcha” messages like he caught us in something but nothing actually happened. Like he would say I noticed you responded to me at 9:30am. We were in different time zones. Facepalm
I love the 4th of July since it is near my birthday. Every year, we have a birthdays celebration on 4th of July weekend. DH, DD and I all have July birthdays. We'll have our families over on Saturday to celebrate. There will be some fireworks in the next township, but the weather is looking crappy right now. DH's birthday is on Sunday, so we will do whatever he wants. Usually that means going to some parks for the day and then getting dinner wherever he wants. I'm hoping that we can go to a local parade on Monday and watch fireworks from my FIL's house.
I was texting with a friend, and we might try to find a protest to attend. To be blunt, I’m not feeling like celebrating the Puritans breaking away from the UK right now. If I were in Great Britain, or if we were still part of Great Britain, I would still have a right to bodily autonomy.
I am not planning to wear red, white, and blue at all like I normally would. I’ll be rocking my Kamala Harris shirt, my VOTE shirt, and my Kind Cotton pro life shirt. I’ve actually had a few people comment on the Kind Cotton one before with things like “I wish I was brave enough to wear that in public.”
I normally host a little neighborhood cookout. Kids swim, DH grills, every just kind of hangs out and then we do some small fireworks. We have neighbors that put on a giant show, so we get to enjoy it from my patio.
This year, though, we are going up to my sisters in Michigan. I have had her girls all week for "cousin camp" and I will take them back home on Saturday and we'll spend the weekend there. Not sure what she has planned for us, but I am sure it will include being on a boat at some point. Girl loves a reason to rent a boat for a day.
I was texting with a friend, and we might try to find a protest to attend. To be blunt, I’m not feeling like celebrating the Puritans breaking away from the UK right now. If I were in Great Britain, or if we were still part of Great Britain, I would still have a right to bodily autonomy.
Same. I'm having a hard time concentrating on anything. I have so much rage.
Post by soccermama on Jun 29, 2022 13:49:01 GMT -5
We are usually at the beach for our annual vacation over the 4th, but this year we just did the beach last week so we will actually be at home! Which I am glad to be at home after doing about 4 trips over the last 6 weeks (3 weekend trips, then our beach trip). Anyway.
DH works on Saturday, but is off Sunday & Monday. Saturday I'd like to take my kids to the pool, and then we'll probably just do chores, etc. Sunday is up in the air....maybe go see a movie? Monday the 4th, we invited our neighbors (whose son is BFF with our DS) over to cookout, play games. We've been trying to schedule this with them forever and I think its actually going to work out! I feel like its been forever since we've had people over so maybe I'm a little anxious about it, but I think it will be fun.
No plans. I don’t mind not celebrating this country plus we were in Canada for Canada day so I guess I celebrated their holiday instead. Unpacking today and maybe grilling.