A Recipe for the Fourth

Happy Fourth of July! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Our recipe for celebrating America’s birthday is pretty simple.

Start with our small town parade, waving flags, proud Marines, bagpipes, and marching bands. Add a few pool floats, a platter of clams, a couple of cocktails, and a table at a marina. Finish it all off with one spectacular sunset.

Now stir in plenty of smiles, laughter, and family stories—some we’ve told a hundred times and somehow still laugh at just as hard as the first time.

That’s it. That’s the recipe.

No fancy ingredients required. Just gratitude for the people beside us, appreciation for the freedoms we often take for granted, and another opportunity to celebrate this beautiful country we call home.

Happy Birthday, America. 🇺🇸

Author: KikiFikar

Kiki Fikar is a native New Yorker who is passionate about taking the day to day life we all experience and sharing it in her tales from Suburbia. She will often be found at the gym, writing snippets each day for future story lines, listening to her two children create their lives, and building the perfect beachfront home and writing retreat in her mind. View all posts by KikiFikar

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