In keeping with my desire to celebrate what we can of the so-called "wacky" holidays, I gathered the info via the website Checkiday.com that gives you a daily list of the holidays for that day and chose the one or ones that I thought I/we could relate to and added them to a printable calendar using the Google calendar template. I have followed that website on Facebook and get daily notifications of the holidays for the next day but I wanted to have a little more advance notice so I could plan around/for them. I hope to post a weekly synopsis of the days and how we celebrated them going forward but I'm already behind so this post will be a little lengthy. We shall see how long this lasts (LOL).
January 1 - Apple Gifting Day
Knowing how our GS2 loves apples, I was hoping to have his mom pick up some apples, one of his favorite snacks, and make sure that he had one on New Year's Day. Since I was sick the whole week between Christmas and New Year's I had totally forgotten, but as luck would have it, we got a facetime call from them on the morning of January 1st wishing us a Happy New Year and he just happened to be having an apple for his snack. The gift was finding out that he is going to be a brother in June - a secret that was very well kept by his parents up until now.
January 2 - Swiss Cheese Day
I made my Cousin Barb's Ham and Swiss Cheese Sliders for us for dinner.
January 3 - Straw Day
I had come across a bag of straws I had been saving in my craft room and decided to use some of them before I purged the rest. I had a couple of projects pinned on my Pinterest page but this is what I chose to do
January 4 - Trivia Day
My good friend J was visiting when HWNSNBP joined our conversation and asked if we knew what Pyrography was and I did - using heat or burn marks to decorate wood. Something I have dabbled in but need to get more familiar with. Perhaps a project is in the works.
January 5 - National Bird Day
Just before Christmas I won a contest on Facebook sponsored by The Raptor Trust. It was on the day of the Winter Solstice and you had to like their post, share it on your timeline, and comment what your favorite bird was. They picked the winner later in the day and it was me. We were supposed to pick up my prize between the holidays, but again, since I wasn't feeling well we didn't make it there until after New Year's Day. I won this game which appears to be a lot like monopoly only it appears to be more educational. We need to make some time to play this game soon.
January 6 - Take Down the Tree Day
We were well-intentioned to do this but it didn't actually get done for two more days.
January 7 - Old Rock Day
I planned to do something with the rocks I still have under our bed that we used to heat it 10 years ago after Superstorm Sandy left us without power, but we made a day trip to Delaware to deliver one of the gifts we had given our daughter that they couldn't fit in there car when they were here. I really want to do one of those rock wrappings or to try to crochet something around one of them. I will be keeping that on my "To Do" list.
January 8 - Hysterversary
I took the day for some self care honoring the 14 year anniversary of my hysterectomy.
January 9 - Word Nerd Day
Three words came up in some reading I was doing that I had to look up.
Coppice - an area of woodland where the trees or shrubs are or formerly were, periodically cut back to ground level to stimulate growth and provide firewood.
Pollard - a trunk of a tree cut back to the trunk to promote growth of a dense head of foliage.
Fyke - a bag or net for catching fish.
January 10 - Houseplant Appreciation Day
I'm at odds with this one only because it seems that the soil that HWNSNBP used to pot the amaryllis bulbs has fungus gnats in it and they're driving me crazy. But we do have almost all of the orchids and both of the amaryllis bulbs in bloom or almost ready to bloom right now.
January 11 - Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day
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January 12 - Hot Tea Day
I enjoyed a nice cup of Christmas Morning Tea that I found in one of our Christmas cards.
January 13 - Peach Melba Day and Friday the 13th
So, I had this jar of Peach Melba sauce that I was planning to use on some ice cream for dessert but I guess the bad luck of Friday the 13th struck because it was spoiled. Oh well!
January 14 - Organize Your Home Day
Does it count that we took down and boxed up the rest of the holiday decorations? I hope so.
Interesting post.
ReplyDeletePeach Melba day?? Really? It's going to be fun to see what you come up with for the rest of the year. Wonder who comes up with the names for the days.
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