Ok I know you’re not American but since tomorrow is the fourth and I am being made to listen to fireworks on THE THIRD, I think it would be super cool if you wrote Samira Mohans guide on getting yourself, your PTSD-ridden wife, and your two small children (who are not big fans of loud noises and go to bed at like eight) through firework season.
A quick one before I sleep anon (and bc it’s already July 4th here)
🎆🎇🇺🇸 Samira Mohan-Walsh’s Guide To The Fourth of July 🇺🇸 🎇🎆
• Emery gets stuck on the night shift for the entire week. It sounds like torture on paper but in reality, it’s kind of a blessing in disguise. She can’t hear the fireworks from within the hospital walls and she’s got plenty of idiots she can cut up and rearrange to distract herself.
• However! This means Samira’s going to have to single-parent her way through bedtimes and the inevitable tears that will come to follow.
• At first it’s fine. They live in a quiet neighbourhood and their windows are triple glazed. Fireworks sound more like bumps in the night for them and if Samira can suitably tire the kids out enough, they’ll sleep straight through.
• However! Theory is a bitch and kids don’t tend to play by the rules. Teddy saw fireworks once and hated them - they’re too big, they’re too bright, they’re too loud. He still sobs when Samira tells him they’re not seeing them this year.
• Samira’s not heartless about it, both kids have a set of earphones that’ll protect them from the noise, but again, it’s difficult to explain what’s good for you to kids who have to hear it all the time. Norah’s petrified of the booms and yet refuses to wear the headphones because they’re heavy.
• If the kids aren’t wearing the headphones, Emery is. She likes the fireworks and she doesn’t mind the noise so much. If she can see where they’re coming from and when they’re going to go off, it’s okay.
Fun fact; I was once sent home from work and put on sick leave because a bunch of kids decided to let off a bunch of fireworks inside my job. It petrified me then, but I still like the fireworks. 😌