July party

We're beginning to plan the menu for Friday's July 4th party: trying to figure out what cook, which dishes can be made ahead, etc. Somehow I feel rather lacking in energy and enthusiasm. Mind you, that's often how it goes with these parties: I have no energy until a day or so before and then I become a blur of activity until the party.

Getting in the way of all this is the fact that my next two weeks are the busiest of the whole year: basically covering two full-time task starting Wednesday and running until Saturday the next week. It's all great fun, but by the time I am done with all of it in early August, I'm going to need the week at the beach which we have booked....

Yours, preparing to celebrate,
N.