{"id":8108,"date":"2010-07-04T11:59:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=8108"},"modified":"2014-07-03T22:23:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T02:23:57","slug":"happy-july-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/04\/happy-july-4th\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy July 4th!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I hope you are all celebrating the birth of our great\u00c2\u00a0nation with family and friends.\u00c2\u00a0 We’re enjoying the day with our son and his family, along with a host of extended family, including four of Robert and Laurel’s cousins, aunts, uncles and maternal grandparents.<\/p>\n

Shelly has organized a patriotic scavenger hunt.\u00c2\u00a0 Additional activities include a George Washingt0n ID game.\u00c2\u00a0 The children will be shown a picture of George and then search through a big plastic bin filled with buttons and coins, including many quarters.\u00c2\u00a0 They will be challenged to find as many as possible and then each child will be allowed to keep 4.<\/p>\n

I’m bringing\u00c2\u00a0a\u00c2\u00a0great Asian salad, aka “Oddball Salad”, a recipe from\u00c2\u00a0my\u00c2\u00a0son-in-law’s mother, Carol.\u00c2\u00a0 Many years ago, she brought this salad to a family gathering and was preparing a container of leftovers for her father.\u00c2\u00a0 When she asked what he would like to take home he said, ” Anything but that oddball salad.”\u00c2\u00a0 He was the only one who didn’t like it so it is served regularly for family get-togethers. And it has been officially renamed Oddball Salad.\u00c2\u00a0 The recipe is below.<\/p>\n

I also made cupcakes.\u00c2\u00a0 I have always done these for 4th of July, with the red, white and blue star cupcake papers and the little flags.\u00c2\u00a0 An even 2 dozen cupcakes were baked and left to cool on the kitchen counter.\u00c2\u00a0 When I came back to frost them, Hannah, our 95 lb. German Shepherd\/Great Pyrenees mix was slinking into the utility room with a cupcake in her mouth.\u00c2\u00a0 There were 12 left on the counter.\u00c2\u00a0 I was livid and fussed at her.\u00c2\u00a0 But her eyes argued that this was clearly a case of entrapment.\u00c2\u00a0 Mea culpa!\u00c2\u00a0 Bob really wanted one so I’ll be taking a measly 11 cupcakes.\u00c2\u00a0 Good thing I had planned to take the salad as well.<\/p>\n

I hope you all have a wonderful day.\u00c2\u00a0 God bless America!<\/p>\n