Catching Up January 2025 Part 3

January 19 was Brew a Potion Day and National Popcorn Day and Whisper "I Love You" Day. There were definitely whispers of "I love you" that day. Somebody made popcorn. 

I'm not sure what this is. It definitely looks like some sort of potion. It's possible it is Chicken Tortilla Soup since that was what was on the menu plan for that day. Catching up isn't always easy when I'm making assumptions months later.

 

January 20 was Penguin Awareness Day. We ate fish sticks and started watching some penguin movie.

 

January 21 was National Hug/Hugging Day and Granola Bar Day. Some of us ate granola bars. Some of us also got some good hugging in.

January 22 was Hot Sauce Day. Lucky loves hot sauce and puts it on a lot of things.

Speaking of Lucky and his love of hot sauce, for Christmas he got a bunch of little bottles of hot sauce so one evening, we had a taste test, starting with what was supposed to be the mildest and working our way to the hottest. We dipped chicken nuggets in them to try them out. I'll be honest, that was fun.

January 23 was Pie Day. I made a pudding pie using a homemade graham cracker crust that had been sitting in our freezer for a long time.

I also had a Relief Society activity that night.

 

January 25 was A Room of One's Own Day. 

January 28 was Blueberry Pancake Day. I think we had blueberry pancakes. I think. But I don't see pictures so... who knows?

That day, Lucky went to an event at the Orem Library: Winter in Narnia. He made a shield and a dragon and did other activities. 

While he was at his event, I was left unsupervised. I only had two items on my list to check out but... I ended up with a lot more. After I took this picture, I picked up even more to check out. Tee Hee. I love the library.

 

Lucky's Birthday

We celebrated Lucky's birthday recently.

 

My sister used her skills to decorate a device case for Lucky which also held a game which the boys were not opposed to playing that night. 

This is the same sister who decorated Jeremy's Polar Express conductor hat. I love to see the things she does. See her website, Finding Time to Create. She does tutorials and teaches classes on crafty things.

Let's talk more about Lucky, though.

We were actually able to have Lucky's birthday dinner and cake and ice cream and present unwrapping and card reading on his actual birthday. Not many people in this family did that this year.

 

Jr. Jr. did service and started reading "The Magician's Nephew" from "The Chronicles of Narnia" to him.

I think Lucky enjoyed his birthday and I was surprised how quickly he blew out his candles. One quick puff and they were out. Way to go, Lucky.

He also got to take balloon animals to his school class. He took penguins, presents, and snowmen. He and Jr. Jr. drew faces on the snowmen. He was so pleased and they looked good.

Rose Flavored Candy

November 29 is C.S. Lewis' Birthday.  While talking about the upcoming holiday, the kids requested Turkish Delight since in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Edmund asks for Turkish Delight from the White Witch.
I asked around where to find Turkish Delight and a friend picked some up from a store that sells it for us.  It's basically rose flavored candy.  Interesting.

It's got the consistency/texture of chocolate covered orange sticks (love those), but rose flavored instead of orange flavored.  Interesting.

We watched the movie, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Nichole checked out a couple Chronicles of Narnia books while she was at school.

Always fun to find an excuse to try something new.