mommy: "one if by land, 2 if by sea"/ "patrick henry"/ "the british are coming the british are coming"
freddy: [laughing til he chokes on his raisin bran]
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we went to the concord parade with my besty from 6th grade and her family. pretty sure we actually went to this parade when i was in 6th grade, and i hated it then. i think i forgot to bring a book. but today was so magical!!
freddy ate it up. bands, dancing horses, the american flag which he's never seen before in his life, kung fu and chinese dragons, a lollipop (yaw-yi-pop).
when the belly dancers paraded by i said "freddy's not allowed to watch" AND JARED SAID "coming from you" because i wore shorts yesterday. omg.
the belly dancers were pretty talented. they wore bikini tops and straw skirts. normally i would be really offended and jealous about jared watching, but i dont know, i feel like the smiles on their faces made a big difference. happy smiles. and some of them were FAT (coming from me #postpartum) ... serious balls, fat belly dancers. my hat is off.
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i also kind of clapped the entire time?? we were at the beginning of the parade in kind of a staging area for the main street, so the audience was sparse and quiet, except for me, constantly clapping.
jared asked the knights of colombus (in suits and capes in the 90* sun) what color their capes meant, he told him, jared said thank you, and i clapped.
the sparse PRIDE cohort stopped silently in front of us (they really needed music or something it was awkward) and our friends are pretty conservative, and i clapped.
sanitation workers, i clapped.
no one in front of us, i clapped.
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my arms got tired and i kept trying to stop but all of a sudden i would notice that i was clapping again!
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my friend's husband has a garden and we ate some pretty delicious tomatoes with mozzarella and basil (tomatoes and basil from garden, mozzarella from target). i want jared to plant a garden... but we live in the concrete jungle, covered in poop. more on that to come.
my besty's daughter, whose style, hair, and figure i'm madly jealous of... yeah i'm kind of messed up
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he thought i was slutty for wearing shorts yesterday, but later my dress strap snapped lol
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my besty's dog gave me a kiss but i only like kisses from these 3 people
2 comments:
Jesse, your posts are always a joy.
Sounds like a very American dream fun and family 4th!
After your comments on the belly dancers I want to apologize one more time for saying "you can look but you can't touch" to Freddy.
perfectly priya
thanks priya : )
and you can stop vexing about fergie (?), b/c neither freddy nor i remembered that : )
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