Happy Birthday, Constitution

Every year our town celebrates the day the Constitution was signed. There are pageants and presentations, assemblies and speeches. It is so great to live in a town where the Constitution is actually celebrated, not just invoked when convenient and ignored when not convenient.

This year a friend of mine, a new parent of children at the charter school, has gotten rather heavily involved with decorations and preparations for the Constitution Day assembly (new parent exuberance, I think). I already did the shopping for all the yellow ribbon and lent her my red, white and blue buntings, and I went over to her house and helped her make yellow ribbon pins for the students; nevertheless, I have a feeling she'll be looking for me this morning to tie yellow florist bows for all the school's trees.