celebrations: week 1 (28 dec 2015 – 3 jan 2016)

We celebrated a number of week 52 holidays, including Festivus and National Candy Cane Day.

Coming up this week:

28: National Chocolate Candy Day and Card Playing Day

29: Pepper Pot Day and National Get on the Scales Day

30: National Bicarbonate of Soda Day and Bacon Day
Irish Soda Day

31: New Year’s Eve and National Champagne Day
Update address book
Thank you cards
Donate money to a Kiva charity
Work on the next year’s resolution/101 things list
Open party “crackers”
Make and eat brownies and cider

January:

1: New Year’s Day

“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.”
– John Burroughs

New Year’s printables
Eat Black eyed peas and collard greens soup
Take a hike
Find a geocache
Polar bear plunge (Ft Mt/Pine Lake)

2: Ratification Day, Georgia and National Cream Puff Day
Georgia’s ratification
Georgia printables
Spicy Thai peanut noodles
Eatocracy: National Cream Puff Day
Food.com: National Cream Puffs Day
Cream Puff recipe

3: Drinking Straw Day and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Birthday and National Chocolate-Covered Cherry Day and Fruitcake Toss Day

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

Paper straw garlands
Straw wreath

Write your name in Elvish in ten minutes
Coloring page
Hobbit food:

• Lake-town market salad
• Smaug’s meaty bits
• Cheddar soup (for the Hobbit’s soul)

January 3 is National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day

Our celebrations from week 52:
23: Festivus

festivus – 23 dec 2015

meatloaf – 23 dec 2015

24: Christmas Eve and National Egg Nog Day

parisianer – 24 dec 2015

25: Christmas

26: National Candy Cane Day

candy canes – 26 dec 2015