I Like Celebrating with Food

January 11 was International Thank You Day. There was plenty of thanking going on.

It was National Milk Day. Milk was used in mashed potatoes that Jeremy made for our at-home potluck to celebrate Sunday Supper Day.

Here are the contributions, from oldest to youngest:

Cheesy garlic mashed potatoes, potato chips, grilled cheese sandwiches, cookies (not pictured), chicken pot pie, Koolaid, grilled cheese sandwiches. 

 

January 12 was National Curried Chicken Day. I made curry chicken with rice and aloo gobi. Mmmm, Indian food is comfort food.

 

January 13 was Korean American Day. We had Korean Beef and Rice.

 

January 15 was National Bagel Day. I made homemade bagels which made everybody happy. We all like bagels. 

Catching Up January 2025 part 2

In 2024 both Nichole and Lucky got out for a lot of birding with us, so Jeremy and I took them to the Golden Corral for the annual Utah County Birders dinner there in January 2025. Both Jeremy and I earned Bronze level for the 2024 challenge so we each picked a pair of earrings. Jeremy gave his to Nichole and I kept mine- owls.

Another day, Jeremy, Nichole, and I went to the kickoff event for Orem Library's 2025 Adult Reading Challenge.

January 12 was National Sunday Supper Day and National Curried Chicken Day so for Sunday supper, we had coconut curry chicken and some sort of rice from "A Season of Family Meal Plans," and bread.

We ate dinner early enough that we were able to go over to our friend's for banana splits. 

I love these gals. One is my ministering sister and one Jeremy ministers to and it just so happens that we're already friends.

January 13 was National Rubber Ducky Day. There were a lot of rubber duckies in our home that wanted to be involved in things.

That night, Orem Library had a Winnie-the-Pooh Day event (Winnie-the-Pooh Day is on January 18). Jet, Lucky, Jr. Jr., and I went.

It was definitely catered toward Jet's age group with crafts and activities and stories.

January 14 was Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day. Some of the family members look forward to grilled pastrami and cheese sandwiches for this holiday. We enjoyed them.

January 15 was National Bagel Day. I didn't think we had bagels until I was looking through my pictures to do this post. 

Me: Wait. We had bagels on National Bagel Day?

Jeremy: Yeah. Didn't you make some?

Me (bewildered): Yes, I did.

We had toasted bagels and hot chocolate with fried rice. Mmmm.

 

January 16 was Appreciate a Dragon Day. Nichole usually draws pictures of dragons that day but she was working on another project so she appreciated a dragon she already had.

 

January 17 was Hot Heads Chili Day. We made chili. 

January 18, besides being Winnie-the-Pooh Day, was National Thesaurus Day. We talked about dinosaur related stuff for "The Saurus Day."

National Sunday Supper Day 2022

How appropriate we had our at-home potluck on January 9 which was National Sunday Supper Day.

Nichole wasn't feeling the greatest so I told her she could just join Jet in contributing ice water to dinner. I had made whole wheat bread recently so Jr. Jr. decided to do butter and jam with bread. 

The Italian bread bowls from Mel's Kitchen Cafe turned out well and were great with soup in them... or for carving... or for eating plain.

When I told kids to think about what they wanted to bring for the potluck, Lucky said he wanted to do dessert and Jr. said he wanted to bring desert. So he got creative. He made a yellow cake and took some of the no bake cookies that Lucky made to make big rocks. He also took vanilla melties, melted them, and added green food coloring, then squeezed it out of a bag to make a cactus shape which he later added to the desert. I do love his creativity.

I love all of their creativity.

Peculiar Sunday Supper

Sunday, January 10 was Peculiar People Day. It was also National Sunday Supper Day. I had my peculiar people make supper that day.

Nichole made maple-cornmeal drop biscuits from our Little Women Cookbook. Thanks, Orem Library. She and I made bacon gravy to go with it. Jr. helped Lucky steam some broccoli. Jr. made peanut brittle. We may have had some other things but I can't remember.