Celebrating in January

January 4 was National Spaghetti Day. Besides eating spaghetti, we went around singing a song from the Sandra Boynton album, "Philadelphia Chickens." The Aardvarks have a part in their song where they sing, "We hope you like spaghetti." We sang that part a lot that day.

It was also National Trivia Day. I started watching a movie with characters who were good at trivia. Also that's the day I wrote the little tidbit on my blog about Ralphie from A Christmas Story being in Elf (though it wasn't posted until January 6).

 

January 5 was National Bird Day. Nichole and I thought about going birding with friends but decided not to based on the snow. Instead we had them over to play a game and eat treats. There were some bird cards in the game we played. 

Since it was National Whipped Cream Day, I made more "Fairy in a Jar Layered Gelatin Treats" from The Fablehaven Cookbook but this time I followed directions for layering it in a 9x13 pan. Those were the treats we shared with our friends. 

It was good bonding time before Nichole and the daughter both headed back to college after Christmas Break. 

Jeremy and some of the kids celebrated National Bird Day by watching The Big Year. I went to sleep because that's what I do.

We all had skillet chicken parmigiana for dinner because chickens are birds and with leftover spaghetti from Spaghetti Day.

Jr. Jr. wore his chicken legs socks he got for Christmas on National Bird Day.

 

January 8 was Elvis' birthday. It was also a relative's birthday. We asked him what kind of treats he would approve of so we could have on for FHE treat. One of the things he likes is chocolate chip cookies so that's what we had to honor him on his birthday.

Sometimes You Have "Those" Days

Sometimes you have "those" days. The kids and I had a day, well, an afternoon, or evening. Some stuff was going on. You're familiar with "stuff." Anyway, the weather was nice so the kids and I hopped in the van and headed to a local park for biking, scootering, strollering, and walking. We stayed longer than expected because one child had a hard time because of dogs around and needed to be comforted and another realized as we were about to leave that his mask had fallen out of his pocket. It took some time but we did find it.

One child kept taking off his socks and only dropped one once where I was able to find it quickly.

When we got home, we ate sloppy joes for dinner to celebrate National Sloppy Joe Day on March 18.

It was also Forgive Mom and Dad Day. I hope that child who had his time ruined did forgive me.

National Creativity Day 2020

May 30 was National Creativity Day. It was also the day SpaceX launched astronauts into space for the first time. We watched the launch. It was reminiscent of watching the Apollo Mission footage last year of the launch of astronauts going to walk on the moon 50 years after it happened. Of course then we knew for sure the outcome and knew everything was going to be okay. The SpaceX launch was live during our generation, my children's generation. None of us watching from our living room were alive 51 years ago when the astronauts walked on the moon. I kept thinking during the SpaceX launch, I hope nothing goes wrong. And nothing did.

Now onto creativity.
Jr. made a face with his quesadillas and later placed his chips in the shape of a skeleton to copy what was happening in a show we were watching.

Nichole was knitting socks which she later gave me as a belated birthday present. Aww, thanks, Nichole.

The day after National Creativity Day, Nichole asked to make cheeseball. I told her it was National Creativity Day yesterday. She replied, "I'm doing it observed." So she made a cheeseball and everyone guessed what shape it was. Nichole finally told us what it was. "It's a lizard thing with a rock."

Creativity.
P.S. Lucky has already put in a request that the next time Nichole makes cheeseball she does it in the shape of a penguin.

No Sock Day 2020

May 8 was No Sock Day. For our temporary time outdoors, Nichole and I went with shoes without socks. Jr. didn't even bother with shoes or socks.

May 8 was also Have a Coke Day. With our homemade BBQ chicken pizza, we drank Sprite, a Coca-Cola product.

Argyle Elvis

January 8 is Argyle Day.  January 8 is also Elvis' Birthday.  Jeremy and I were trying to figure out how to celebrate these two holidays.  I mentioned that I've been watching a lot of movies lately.  The closest thing we have to an Elvis movie is Lilo & Stitch.  Jr. Jr. watched that movie today while I took a nap.
For Argyle Day, I realized we don't have any Scottish movies.  We have several Irish movies, but not Scottish movies.  And the weather was not the kind of weather to run to the library to pick up Brigadoon or something today.
Jeremy did find a music video on youtube about argyle socks.  We watched that.
While Jr. was doing a homework project of decorating a snowman picture, I joked that he should give his snowman argyle socks.  It didn't happen.

And now as I finish this blog post, I'm listening to Weird Al's song, "Velvet Elvis."

I've Reached That Point

I've been wearing sandals most of Summer. Now that it's Fall, there are colder days. The other day it rained and since my family had plans to go hiking that afternoon/evening, I had to put on shoes and socks. Well guess what. I couldn't reach my toes to get my socks on myself very easily. I've reached that point in this pregnancy. Like I said, I hadn't noticed before as I've been wearing sandals a lot.

My sweet little boy, though, was very helpful. He volunteered and helped me put my socks on. I'm very grateful with the big helpers I have.