Friday, July 3, 2015

Where was I?

On this eve of our nation's two hundredth and thirty-ninth birthday that I was amongst the many who were told about how it all came about, as you were too.
Now I wasn't here or there when it actually did happen, but I was taught all about it as you were too.
The closest I got to part of its origins being in part of my immediate life was having our second son being born in its bi-centennial year and he receiving a birth certificate indicating that.
And knowing that its 200th birthday was quite a BIG deal then.
Though this part is quite embarrassing and I feel another true confession come on me... and for what and why many of you may think twice about reading my spews nightly ever again, although I have repeatedly lamented that I am not that smart and by now I do believe you all know that...well, this is too weird, because I did really, really like my social studies teacher who taught me with those many way back then, 1962, American history as a child to me and all my classmates, who must have retained more than me.
Fast forward fourteen years later...
Since we were going on vacation at that time of the 200th I felt even with our very young sons of four years old and not quite five months old that we would enjoy some historic location on our way to Disney World from our home in south Jersey an hour outside of Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
For some reason I wanted for Hubby to  get us to Williamsburg Virginia for the fourth.
We stopped along the way in Lake Fairfax VA., which we always enjoyed, but for no reason logical or otherwise I wanted and thought we should arrive in Williamsburg for the fourth.
My reasons were not spoken until we arrived and I asked and was surprised that it appeared to be the quietest location for a holiday of this magnitude why?
Why that they were not celebrating this very special occasion?
But no one could tell me and so we had a very tame 200th, without fanfare or excitement or anything and for years I was baffled by that, since no one ever said anything to me.
Most likely too polite, even my Hubby?
For in my enjoyment of my seventh grade history class I must have listened all wrong.
I truly wanted to be where the action was to be and the celebration and all of it, but was stupidly unaware that the majority of it was happening only a stone's throw away from our Jersey home, yes across the Delaware River in Philadelphia!
Thankfully our sons were too young to know of my enormous historic boo boo, and Hubby never said a word about it then or since, but of course he knew and was just being a supportive husband then as now.
And that is why to this day I feel I have so much to learn, since what I did not really learn that first time as well as what there is so much new to learn now!
This techno device still amazes me and I do hope it never becomes too common place I so enjoy figuring out new ways to use it daily along with my somewhat smarter phone.
And so your little ones are not as confused as I was I am enclosing a link to the history channels explanation of how we got to celebrate our independence day!http://www.history.com/topics/holidays/july-4th/videos?mkwid=bF92dkZa5|dc_pcrid_316323945_pkw_fourth%20of%20july%20origin_pmt_b&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=fourth%20of%20july%20origin&utm_campaign=M_Holidays&paidlink=1&cmpid=PaidSearch_bing_M_Holidays_fourth%20of%20july%20origin

 On that note allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know whom and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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