Happy 4th Folks… even if it's the 14th

      I meant to write this on the fourth but my day was taken up with breakfast at the park then an afternoon and night BBQ. I love the 4th of July though. It's the booming fire crackers, the sparkly ground fireworks, and the amazing aerials. 


      Sitting on the curb listening to Jeff Dunham with one ear, my Grandma's neighbors with the other, and watching the sparklers in all the little kid's hands it hit me. The 4th is such a happy occasion because it marks the beginning of the holiday season. Everyone likes the BBQ's and the fireworks, unless your antisocial, because it creates a sense of neighborhood. It creates a stronger sense of family which people seem to have lost lately. (Now don't click out, thinking this is just another "Families are lost and teenagers are the route of sin in the modern world!" thing cause it's not. This is an honest post about how people seem to have forgotten what family is and why we have a family. And it helps that this post is from a teenager… I won't be cussing them out because I am a teenager and I don't think we're that bad.)

Yes, I'm only fourteen but I do notice things around me. I take pride on how I can talk to my family without being the classic teenager. My Dad and I talk politics, my Mom and I talk about our dreams and (yes i know) her boyfriends and what I want my boyfriends to be. I talk to my sister and we laugh and hug regularly. I got in a petty little fight maybe once last year, this year not at all. I don't consider the grumpy moods or the biting comments fighting because it's not, it's just the way we interact. I think that families don't have to be Pleasant Ville but we don't have to be separate people wishing only for the comfort of friends so you can "get away from my family".


      During the BBQ I saw my grandparents, cousins, and two of my siblings connect and didn't a fight… it was pretty surreal. My family isn't the separate unit type but usually there is some bickering going on. I love the family and I love everything about how parents take care of the kids then the kids take care of the parents while raising their kids... the whole wheel of caring and taking care of each other is something totally based in the family.


      I just wanted to say happy fourth of july, even though I'm writing this on the fourteenth.


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