If you would like to participate in this week's giveaway, please answer this question the comments:
What is your favorite SUMMER holiday: Memorial Day, July 4, or Labor Day? And why?
This is the giveaway for this week's winner:
The package includes a row counter, a project bag, and a copy of Curls, by Hunter Hammersen a lovely book - but not one so lovely that I need three copies!
I will choose a random winner from the comments on Sunday, July 8 at 5 p.m. EDT. Please note that there is a really good chance that I may not send out the packages until the end of July, once I have them all ready to send at once. I will definitely let you know when they are on the way.
I hope you will want to play along!
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In other news, Happy July 4th! I hope you have a lovely holiday, however you do or do not celebrate. We are in Rehoboth Beach with some family, and having a great time. Tomorrow it's back home and back to the usual routine. Alas, vacations can't last forever. ;-)
14 comments:
The 4th is my favorite but not for fireworks! My grandmother's birthday was July 4 and we always had a family gathering and ate potato salad and ham and apple pie and angelfood cake, and played cards, and told lies, and had a wonderful time. To me it's not just the country's birthday! Thanks for letting me ramble down memory lane this morning.
I love Christmas in July! (Or Christmas any time! Ha!)
My favorite summer holiday is Memorial Day... it can't be summer without Memorial Day!
Enjoy your time with family!
My favorite summer holiday is Labor Day. I'm not a hot weather girl, I much prefer the crisp air of fall, so Labor Day signals that the hot days are coming to an end and cooler weather is on the way. When I was young, I also loved all the new things that came with the start of the school year -- at least one new outfit, new notebooks, clean and fresh pens and pencils. The new year always felt like it started in September, not January.
I used to love the 4th. I would fry chicken, make a lemon meringue pie and watermelon margaritas. I would have a pretty big bash every year. Now that the family is spread out and my parents are gone, it's pretty sad although our crab get together the past few years has been fun now that I have some grands. My big whoop tonight will be watching Independence Day and eating popcorn.
Happy 4th of July! Of the three this is my favorite summer holiday. We are usually at the cottage with many family members. It’s the time to enjoy good food, good family times and nice ,hot!, weather.
Favourite summer holiday: Probably Memorial Day, because it kicks off summer. Even though I'm retired from teaching, I still like that little thrill of "Hey! It's summer!" that Memorial Day means. And back when I was slogging through the end of the school semester, it provided that little shot of adrenalin to get me through the last week until The End.
(I hope it's cooler where you are; we're in the 500th day of 90 and 90% humidity here in NEO and I want to explode except that it would take too much effort.)
Well I'll start! Labor Day is my favorite. Here's why. 1. My University is still in session over Memorial Day, and it always rains, so that's not a favorite. 2. My dogs hate fireworks, so 4th of July isn't a favorite. 3. Labor day wins by default, but I do like it, because here in Oregon September is the nicest month, weather wise, and I still have several weeks before I start back to school when the beach is not crowded! So Labor Day!
Hmmm... that's a tough question, particularly since I like, but don't love, all three. Each holiday has its own merits--the pool opening, fireworks, the impending end of the heat... But I guess my answer today would be July 4, despite its lack of a 3-day weekend this year. I do enjoy a thematic color scheme and we celebrate by bicycyling down to the side of the Lincoln Memorial to watch the fireworks up close to the action, but not the crowds. And then we get to bike home on the highway before they reopen it to traffic. Which is a weird reason to have a fondness for a holiday, but there you go...
Sounds like fun. . .The Fourth brings many memories of my childhood to mind. It was a rare day of idleness on the farm. A watermelon was placed in the irrigation ditch to cool for a couple of days, my Mom fried chicken and made creamed cucumbers and her special potato salad, we ate outside, and napped on the grass. Usually my Mom purchased a few firecrackers to celebrate the day.
I'd say i love the 4th of july a bit more than the others. MID summer, baseball in full swing, lots of time left on the lakes to paddleboard, and fish. Trips in August . Kids all out and about without end of year or beginning of year stress. Oh and fireworks
Ok, I’ll play. My favorite holiday is today (the 4th) for entirely nostalgic reasons. When I was a kid we spent the day at my grandparents’ house, first attending the neighborhood parade (Lawndale, for any fellow Philly folks out there), then the parade after-party at Tacony Creek Park. After this my grandfather barbecued chickens on a supremely ancient rotisserie, hauled out of the garage on this one day a year, and we ate outside on my grandparents’ patio under the grape arbor. And then, fireworks! Altogether an excellent time, for a fine reason, the birthday of the country that had welcomed those same grandparents and allowed them to work hard and build a good life. I still fly my grandfather’s flag on the day and hope this remains a country of opportunity.
Definitely July 4th ......................I feel very blessed to be where it all began.
Of course, July 4th is celebrated all throughout the country, but nobody does it better than Philadelphia!
My favorite summer holiday is the one that signals it is almost fall - Labor Day! I'm trying not to be too grumpy about summer heat and humidity (although this last week has made that fairly difficult), but every year I rejoice a little bit on Labor Day. I tell myself "hooray, I've made it!" and then wait for those first cool, crisp breaths of fall. We always went back to school two days after Labor Day, so September has always felt like a new start with glorious new weather!
Labor Day wins for me!!! I can't take the heat and humidity any longer. Plus, September and October are my favorite months!
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