First Week of March

March 1 was Share a Smile Day. Jeremy and the kids played and smiled together. 

Dr. Seuss' Birthday (Read Across America Day) was on March 2. We read books of course.

And we ate green eggs and ham. This time it was in the form of fried rice. I do like to find creative ways to celebrate.

 

March 3 was Soup It Forward Day and National Cold Cuts Day so we had Ogre Stew (from The Fablehaven Cookbook) and ham sandwiches.

March 4 was Grammar Day. There was some correcting of grammar that day, maybe some editing of someone's writing? If I don't have pictures or don't write it down, I don't always remember.

 

March 5 was National Cheese Doodle Day. Jeremy suggested people draw pictures of cheese. I did.

Oreo Cookie Day (Birthday of the Oreo Cookie) was March 6. Jeremy got creative. We actually sang Happy Birthday.

 

We celebrated National Cereal Day on March 7 with cheese and pickle sandwiches again. It's tradition.

 

 

Catching Up March 2025 part 1

March 1 was National Pig Day. We had our traditional "Pig Island" dinner. Pigs in a blanket with peaches and blue koolaid. It's based on the Sandra Boynton song, "Pig Island." "They play on the beaches the colors of peaches There by the turquoise sea, oh my, Under a blue blue sky."

 

March 2 was Dr. Seuss' birthday, also known as Read Across America Day. Let me tell you about the cuteness that is my youngest child with Dr. Seuss. Jet wanted to read "Toast and Ham" one day. Most of us know it as Green Eggs and Ham. Anyway, Jet made up his own version and "read it" to me a few times. It was a little different each time. Some here and theres and sharing with the Fox but her is the gist of it:

Hey, that guy stole my paper. Do you like toast and ham? I don't like toast and ham. Do you like it in the house? I don't like it in the house. Do you like it in the car? I don't like it in the car. Do you like it in the dark? I don't like it in the dark. Do you like it in the water? I don't like it in the water. One second. I want toast and ham. Give me it. You want it? Yeah. I want it. I like toast and ham. I like it in the house. Do you like it? I do like it. Thank you very much. The End.

On Dr. Seuss' Birthday, Jet also hopped on Pop.

 

March 3 was National Cold Cuts Day and Soup It Forward Day. Soup and Sandwiches to celebrate.

I'll do some more catching up later.

March Comes In Like a... Pig

March 1 was gentle so it didn't come in like a lion but March 2 we got hail so... draw your own conclusions.

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The Great Airplane Catastrophe

(Part 1 of Lucky's Conclusion)

People screamed from the rooftops as they jumped on the airplanes with a thud, hail scattering around them. They crawled all around the airplanes attacking the windows, throwing rocks at the windows and biting the airplanes' wings. "Those things' teeth must be really strong," said a reporter before getting hit on the head with a chunk of hail. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Oh, I get it. Hail. Acting like pigs. Drawing his own conclusions. Thanks, Lucky. I'm interested in reading Part 2.

Now let's go back to what I was originally going to talk about. March 1 was National Pig Day. I planned a "Pig Island" dinner like we had before. We also listened to Scott Bakula singing the Sandra Boynton/Michael Ford song. 

We also watched the Doctor Who episode, "Aliens of London." That episode has a pig in it. 

March 1 was also Share a Smile Day. We did.

March 2 was Read Across America Day. There was definitely reading going on around us. It was Dr. Seuss' Birthday so we of course ate green eggs and ham.

Celebrating Holidays in March

Started this post back in April but you know... chaos... then Jr. Jr. and Lucky like to "help" with my blog posts.

 

Bear with me as I have a whole month of holidays to talk about so I won't remember all of them especially if I didn't take pictures.

March 1: Share a Smile Day. I already posted the picture I took that day of Jet, Lucky, and I sharing a smile. I posted it on March 26, 2023.

March 2: Dr. Seuss' Birthday. We had green shelled eggs from neighbors' chickens. We also had ham. We ate breakfast burritos.

March 3: I Want You To Be Happy Day. Going to the library makes Nichole happy. Running around the library makes Jet happy.

March 6: Birthday of the Oreo cookie.

March 7: National Cereal Day. Some of us had cereal. Some of us had cheese and pickle sandwiches.

March 8: Kenneth Grahame's Birthday. We had The Reluctant Dragon checked out of the library for this.

Also National Proofreading Day. Nichole wrote.

March 9: Popcorn Lover's Day.

March 14: Pi Day and National Potato Chip Day and Learn About Butterflies Day.

March 15: Ides of March. Lucky was quite happy we had Chicken Caesar Salad Wraps.

March 16: National Panda Day. "Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?"

Also Artichoke Hearts Day. We may or may not have had alfredo pizza with artichoke hearts. I'm leaning toward we did.

March 17: St. Patrick's Day. We wore green.

March 18: Sloppy Joe Day. Jeremy made us sloppy joes and onion roasted potatoes while the kids and I were out. I tried to get a picture of all of us. It wasn't easy so I made the comment that the picture was horrible so I needed to try again. Lucky commented, "Why is the picture horrible? Oh, because of your face?" Don't exactly know how to take that.

March 19: Poultry Day. Cooked chicken drumsticks and made some Indian food to go with them because we had ingredients we needed to use up.

Also Chocolate Caramel Day. 

Also Let's Laugh Day. Have you met my family? Of course there was laughing.

March 20: Vernal Equinox/First Day of Spring and National Snowman Burning Day. Jr. Jr.'s Family Home Evening activity- making paper snowmen and burning them. We started with a jar and ended on a pie plate which worked better. 

I was going to make snowman sandwiches for dinner. Grilled cheese snowman sandwiches. We had had grilled cheese and grilled pb&j but forgot the raisins so they weren't snowman sandwiches.

March 21: French Bread Day. These loaves turned out gorgeous if I do say so myself.

March 24: National Cheesesteak Day. We made Chilly Pheesesteaks. 

March 28: Something on a Stick Day. I made pizza muffins and ham and cheese muffins and we ate them on toothpicks. 

March 29: Manatee Appreciation Day. I went around singing "Barbara Manatee" most of the day.

There. I did it. Blogged about holidays in March. Phew.

March Comes In Like a Lion

Mmm, not so much. Beautiful first day of March we had.

A few days later it did rain, but by the evening, it was nice again.

morning and afternoon pictures

 

The first day of March brought us Share a Smile Day. We smiled. It brought us Peanut Butter Lover's Day. People ate peanut butter sandwiches. It also brought us National Pig Day. I decided to create another version of my "Pig Island" picture from 2015. I went around singing the song as well.

 The second day of March brought us Dr. Seuss' birthday. "Do you like green eggs and ham?"

The third day of March brought us I Want You to Be Happy Day. Double Chocolate Chunk Muffins make us happy. It brought us National Cold Cuts Day. People ate ham sandwiches. It also brought us National Soup It Forward Day. I took that opportunity to try a new soup recipe, Easy Chicken Parmesan Soup, from sixsistersstuff.com and it was so yummy. Jeremy, Nichole, Jet, and I all loved it.

The fourth day of March brought us National Sons Day. I let the boys pick what we'd have for dinner so we had pepperoni pizza, BBQ chicken pizza, and Pineapple Fanta. It brought us Grammar Day. I corrected people's grammar from time to time. It also brought us National Dance the Waltz Day and National Marching Music Day. Like last year, Jet and I danced the waltz to "Stars and Stripes Forever" in 3/4 time.

 

The next day we had enough ingredients to make more pepperoni and BBQ chicken pizzas so the kids made more pizzas. Thanks, kids. 

Pizza Party!

May 15 this year was National Pizza Party Day. Oh, yeah. That is my kind of holiday.
The kids read Pete the Cat and the Perfect Pizza Party.

Jr. helped me make individual sized pizza crusts and Jeremy helped me prepare toppings so everyone could have what kinds of pizza they wanted, up to four pizzas each. Yumm.

So we had a pizza party and watched Horton Hears a Who because "On the fifteenth of May in the jungle of Nool…"
We also celebrated Dinosaur Day with cuteness.

And when we needed a new blanket, we got one out with a dinosaur on it.

P.S. May 15 was also National Chocolate Chip Day. We had some ripe bananas and I meant to make chocolate chip banana muffins that day but with all the pizza preparations, I didn't get to it. So I made them the next day and we celebrated National Chocolate Chip Day Observed.

March Celebrations Catchup

March 1 was Share a Smile Day. I texted a picture of Jet smiling to several people.

It was also Peanut Butter Lover’s Day, National Pig Day, and Dadgum That’s Good Day. I had a peanut butter sandwich for lunch. Jr. made pigs in a blanket for dinner and after taking a bite, Jeremy exclaimed, “Dadgum, that’s good!”

March 2 was Dr. Seuss’ Birthday. Green eggs and ham for dinner. I also wanted to try out a new recipe- homemade English muffins. I got the recipe from budgetbytes.com While in the middle of preparing the dough, Jet wanted to be held so I had to get creative.

We also had several Dr. Seuss books checked out from the library and a few days before, Jeremy built Dr. Seuss characters for the Fillmore Library.

March 3 was National Cold Cuts Day. We ate ham sandwiches. We also had soup and "slow cooker stuffed apples" from Budget Bytes.

 
March 4 was National Dance the Waltz Day. It was also National Marching Music Day. So I hummed “Stars and Stripes Forever” in 3/4 time and waltzed with Jet to it. 

Nichole and Jr. had another concert. Jeremy went to this one. I was saying how nice Nichole got all her concerts and festivals out of the way before the schools were closed down. Well, most of them. They are supposed to have their last concert in May. I'm guessing that won't happen.

March 6 was Oreo Day and National Frozen Food Day. We made pizza and used pepperoni and mozzarella cheese from the freezer. Then we had Oreos for dessert and sang the Weird Al song, “The White Stuff.”

 
March 7 was National Cereal Day. I don’t have pictures but we made sure to eat cheese and pickle sandwiches to celebrate.
March 9 was National Meatball Day. I tried Swedish Meatball Pasta.
March 14 was Pi Day. We ate impossible cheeseburger pie and chocolate pudding pie. It was also National Children’s Craft Day so I made sure to take a picture of Nichole working on her latest craft- a latch hook rug.

March 15 was the Ides of March. Jr. made us orange juliuses.

March 16 was National Artichoke Hearts Day. We made chicken alfredo pizza with artichoke hearts and spinach. Yumm.

March 17 was St. Patrick’s Day. Apparently the leprechaun got an early start on mischief the day before. Lucky and Jr. Jr. kept going around to different places in the house and noticed items being out of place and talked about how it must have been the leprechaun who did it. The next morning, they noticed even more points of mischief. The leprechaun got out a bunch of green items- fabric, dishes, seasoning containers, a ball. And turned our milk green again.

For dinner, I tried a couple new recipes from websites I’d been looking at. I made Cheesy Cottage Pie from budgetbytes.com and Irish Brown Soda Bread from ourbestbites.com. To celebrate his first St. Patrick’s Day, Jet leaked out of every green outfit I put him in.

 
March 18 was Sloppy Joe Day. Nichole directed me to a sloppy joe recipe in a book we have checked out of the library, The Food Nanny Rescues Dinner. That’s what we used.
March 19 was the first day of Spring. That evening as we were sitting around as a family, Nichole asked when the Equinox was. I told her it was "today." All of a sudden the kids started calling out that the kitchen window was open. Oh no! Nichole quickly went and closed it. Now, if you don't know, that is a reference to the Fablehaven series. There is a part in the first book when it's the Summer Solstice and the kids in the book are told not to open or even look out the window. All the solstices and equinoxes are like that when the boundaries of the magical preserve are weakened and let the things of the night roam free.
March 20 was National Snowman Burning Day. We made snowman sandwiches. We hadn't had those in a long time.

We had different levels of raisin likers and that was reflected in the sandwich decorating.

March 21 was National Corn Dog Day. I made corn bread muffins and put pieces of hot dogs in them before baking them. 

March 21 was also National French Bread Day. I tried out a new recipe (as I do) for making french bread using The Food Nanny's french baguette recipe from thefoodnanny.com.
March 22 was National Goof Off Day. 'Nuff said.
March 23 was National Chip and Dip Day. I made bean dip (not 7 layers) and homemade tortilla chips (tortilla chips idea from Budget Bytes). Yumm.

March 24 was International Waffle Day. We had waffles (of course) with a new recipe- chocolate gravy from hillbillyhousewife.com We also listened to Weird Al's song, "Waffle King."

March 26 was National Spinach Day. We ate salad with spinach in it.
March 27 was the anniversary of the premiere of Singin' in the Rain. Since it was Friday and the kids didn't have school the next morning, you better believe we watched that movie.  

March 28 was Black Forest Cake Day. I tend to save candy for special occasions like this.

Woohoo. March celebrations. See how much you can celebrate even while social distancing?