Birthdays

Today it was my turn to have a birthday--and JT and Luci tried to fit the correct number of candles on my cake! JT made this cake for me while I was at the homeschool convention. He made it ALL BY HIMSELF! John only helped with keeping track of how long the cake was in the oven. I am so proud of JT--and thrilled to bits. I'm pretty sure the only other person who's ever made me a birthday cake is my Mom! (No, Feingold friends, it is not Feingold acceptable...but it was from his heart and filled with lots of love. Remember, he had Dad helping him pick stuff out. John can't remember Feingold when he's shopping.) After the birthday bash (I got a DVD, some books, and some chocolate!), we did something I've been wanting to do ever since we moved in to this house. I guess I was just waiting for a very hot, humid day to do it. This is in the garage.

I'll outline it with black to give it more definition, and I've already painted over the worst of the dribbles into the white stripes. The new flag is right next to our old basement door, the one where we measure kids and milestones. I love this flag! Since taking this picture, we signed and dated it.

Thank You, Veterans!

My favorite veterans: My husband John, my father Charles, my father-in-law Olen, and son-in-law Thom. John and Thom are still serving.

Flag Day

June 14, 1777— Continental Congress adopts the following: Resolved: that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.

My Favorite Soldier

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Timeline of U.S. Flags click here

Flag Trivia click here

You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife until she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on a shanty of a consul in a foreign town.

~ O. Henry (1862-1919)

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day that my child might have peace.

~Thomas Paine 1780