Happy 4th of July!

How to have a great 4th of July:

• Try to keep tradition by buying your children really cute 4th of July outfits, and find yourself forgetting about the tradition 2 days before, rush to Old Navy, pick out really cute matching polo shirts and find that your older daughter and son are devastated that you are not buying them shirts with the American Flag on it--so you put the really cute outfits back and buy the $4 American Flag shirts!
• On the way home from purchasing these shirts, your, 2001, piece of junk American car, which you just got back from the mechanic, and you never should have bought, service engine light comes on and you have to take it back to the mechanic to have serviced, AGAIN!
• Go to the beach the day before the 4th of July, come home really exhausted. Pick up a babysitter, and go wait in line for 1 hour to see an awesome summer blockbuster, Transformers and love it!
• On the 4th of July, go to the beach early to find that every one else had the same idea, but arrived even earlier! Stay for 2-3 hours, come home, go to lunch, nap, and then go to Sea World for the fireworks. Believe that the 4th of July wouldn't be the 4th of July without fireworks and make all of your family exhausted and extremely tired just so you can enjoy seeing the fireworks. Once at SeaWorld, you will find yourself realizing what chaos you got yourself into, but never admit it. Go to the new Shamu Rocks show and want to wait in the Stadium to see the Fireworks, but, later, be convinced by your husband to watch them on the grass where the kids can run around. Once the fireworks begin, your view will be completely obsructed by trees. You will glare at your husband and he will offer to move you to another spot, but you feel bad and stay and watch the display through the trees. Once it is over, you will make a mad dash for the car. Get in the car, change the kids clothes while trying to leave the parking lot, sit in the parking lot for almost an hour, drive home, kids fall asleep, and feel completely satisifed with your 4th of July experience!

• The day after, you will wake up, completely exhausted, find you have no food in the house, go grocery shopping at 7:30am, come home, open the car door, bags with glass jars fall out and break, you clean it up, un pack groceries, and then get the kids ready for the pool. It is your day, after all, to host pool day at your house. Although, you are so tired you will do this because you are a good mom. After 3 hours of fun at the pool with friends, you will come home, try to rest, but realize you can't because your son has soccer practice in a couple hours. You will wake your baby up from his nap, put him and the other two kids in the car, everyone will be so tired and fall asleep on your drive there. You will debate whether or not to go to Soccer since everyone is asleep, but you know your son will be disappointed if he misses out. You will wake everyone up again. Stand in the heat and watch your son have fun, listen to your daughter complain about being bored, and watch your baby crawl around in the dirt. At one point, your older son will run from the field and tell you he needs to go potty. You will attempt having him use the porta potty. You will try holding him up so he can pee in the urinal. He will not be able to go because he is too distracted by the excrement in the potty, so you will trek all the way across the other side of the field to the indoor potty's. He will go and return to his game and have fun.

• At the end of your day, you will be completely exhausted, but unable to withstand your slight addiction to blogging and Soaps. You will do both and feel fulfilled by your day!