All these years I used to love fireworks, I had no idea they were such a terror to pets. I just can't ever look at them the same. The fireworks are way too powerful for common people to have, I'm shocked that everything generally goes safe as we're talking millions of people using these weapon-like, extremely dangerous items but this is a good thing, that generally it turns out safe even though it's surprising because many kids are not supervised.
There powerful fireworks are not even just a kid thing anymore either.

Moonflower has never cared to shoot off any fireworks, but we used to enjoy them at her cousins' houses for a few years. When I was growing up, we used to shoot our fireworks on the actual, ummm, 4th of July!! That was the entire point of being excited to do something that you could only do that 1 day of the year. We would make sure to shoot them all up on that very night, cause that's the actual holiday. 
Ummm, now, people are shooting days and sometimes weeks ahead. Ugh...people are just the worst.

And now this is also a New Year's thing too.

So that's how I ended up with 4 sleepless nights because Luna would stay in the closet and then come out very late with a bunch of pent up energy and I would have to keep her from disturbing everyone else in the house. So here are the days it was:

July 3
July 4
July 5
July 6

I feel lucky as bad as it was, because I know it could have easily been much longer having to deal with this. Sometimes the fireworks would go on to 1 and 2 am. So yeah that's late! And so your cat coming out of the closet in the wee hours of the morning, is gonna want to catch up on their normal and fun activities lol. 
Luna would be like "Why in the world are these folks in the bed. No ma'am, I'm not having it. I spent most of the day and night in a dark closet-it's my time to shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine" Lol.

Now July 7th my lack of sleep was due to some lactose intolerance issues. Ate too many Vienna Finger sandwich cookies

So now here we are July 8th and I have slept through so much of the day; I needed the sleep but it still doesn't feel good. I still feel like I'm 25% sleep. It's kinda miserable, but I'm glad I'm not like in any pain or sick. When I was sleeping earlier this morning, Luna brought a salamander in the house, lol, and as usual, which ever bed I'm sleeping in that's where she takes her lizard, salamander or baby frog.
Me to the rescue as usual, I've gotten pretty good and rescuing these amphibians lol and just put them outside.

Now, my anxiety is a little up because I have to drive about 1hour 20 minutes, back and forth, to take Moonflower to an Endodontist follow-up appointment. I think they're done with the worst part, where he had to drain some fluid from her back tooth and reduce swelling and pressure. It helped a lot but she still has some discomfort.

Since she was an infant I have always had a hard time emotionally with doctor's appointments, lots of nervousness but I've actually started to improve a lit lately, thanks to just my general healing journey and therapy.

Even though I went for healing regarding 1 specific topic (race), it turns out when you get to the root of your fears, it helps spread improvement and reduce anxiety in other areas of your life.

So for the most part, I won't be too much of a nervous mom tomorrow. They'll take good care of Moonflower 🌷💐And she's a trooper, such a trooper. She always does extremely good with these uncomfy doctors' visits