Happy 4th of July!

Today we were all feeling like home would be best, thus we did home things. In the midst of playing with my child (building castles, playing paw patrol with her pups, and figuring out which balls bounce faster Waffel bowl fruit salad) I did get to this week's craft: renewing our old couch pillows for a "joker color" requested by my other half! Granted the green is a softer green, but I like the contrast between the 2 colors, anyway. This one was pretty simple as I took the ones that were already there and sewed them into purple and green (2 of each) fabrics.

 


So on some fun facts about the 4th of July!
  • It's celebrating America's Independence from Britain (as that was the territory mostly formed already-America bought the territories from the rest of Europe later)
  • The way it is celebrated hasn't really changed much (patriotic decorations, fireworks, and big gatherings of food and drink and sport/play)
  • 3 presidents died and one president was born on the day it is recognized (and another one died from food poisoning at 1850s celebration)
  • John Adam's was highly annoyed that it wasn't recognized 2 days earlier as July 2nd was when the declaration was voted into existence (though it wasn't signed by all until August 2nd)
  • 15, 000 fireworks will be lighting up the skies tonight and 150 million hotdogs will be consumed (that number stretches from Washington DC to LA California 5 times over!)

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