National Candy Corn Day
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Happy National Candy Corn Day!
Did you ever read a National Observances Calendar? They make great conversation starters, party themes, and can stoke your creative juices.
October is Stamp Collecting and National Popcorn Popping Month. It’s also the month for caffeine addiction recovery, class reunions, world menopause (of all things!) and toilet tank repairs. Amazingly, we had the plumber here this month, and I went off Diet pop for ten days. How do they do that? How do they know?
Yesterday was National Cat Day and ...
today is National Candy Corn Day, which I totally embrace.
Did you know this is Peace, Friendship and Goodwill Week? Again, somebody pegged it for me because this was a week of hanging with friends, and I even put together a bag for Goodwill.
For an introvert, three friend events in one week is noteworthy. I attended a lovely Friends and Chocolate Tea, met a neighbor who invited me to do coffee, and went to couples' Bunco. (An easy dice game, rather like musical chairs, convenient for chatting with friends).
This particular Bunco group is amazing because they're my ex-Mennonite friends. Once we attended the same Sunday School group and raised our kids together. Then at one point or another, we fell out of touch--except for funerals and weddings. We scattered to various non-denominational churches, making new church friends.
As I wrote my fictional Mennonite series, I remembered and yearned for these old friends. A fire burned in me. I entertained the idea of getting the gals together for Bunco, but I never acted on it.
I was busy and my house was never perfect.
Yet the idea simmered.
One day, we got an invitation from one of the old group for a Super Bowl party. When we all met together, the Bunco idea literally popped out of my mouth, and the group jumped on it, dubbing me organizer. They wanted to start right away (last March). It was a God-thing that ten couples found one night a month to suit everyone's schedules.
The gals tweaked my idea to include our husbands, and I’m glad we did because they bring a ton of humor into the party. After the holidays, we'll start our second year.
Quote
“A good friend is a connection to life –
a tie to the past, a road to the future,
the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”
Louis Wys.
In order to stoke our imagination to cultivate friendships, I checked the calendar for upcoming observances:
November is National Banana Pudding Month
1-7 - National Fig Week
Nov 1 – National Author’s Day (smiling here)
Nov 1 - National Men Make Dinner Day (loving it)
Nov 2 - Cookie Monster day
You can check the following link for more celebration ideas. If you're really motivated, there’s even a link to start your own national observance.
http://www.brownielocks.com/OCTOBER2012.html
Would love to hear your tips on friendship because...
it really is a key to sanity in an insane world.
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5 Comments
Friends are the one thing I really miss since moving here 3 years ago. We recently got plugged into a good church so I'm hoping I'll be able to start making friends again soon. Right now I just call, text & video chat A LOT.
Thankfully, we are blessed with technology to keep in touch with old friends and even make new ones via the internet. Nothing like face to face though.
LadySaotome says...
Ooh - I'll have to tell my husband about National Men Make Dinner Day! I wonder if there's a National Men Wash Dishes or Do Laundry Day? lol
Friends are the one thing I really miss since moving here 3 years ago. We recently got plugged into a good church so I'm hoping I'll be able to start making friends again soon. Right now I just call, text & video chat A LOT.
Dianne Christner - Christian Fiction Author says...
Sadly, I didn't see anything for dishes or laundry. (Just checked) I actually have laundry instructions written out and taped inside my cabinet above the washer & dryer. This helps hubby remember how to do it when I go out of town to visit my daughter.
Thankfully, we are blessed with technology to keep in touch with old friends and even make new ones via the internet. Nothing like face to face though.
Sandra Baker says...
My husband's idea of Male Dinner-making day is taking us out to eat. We live in a small town with two restaurants. They close at 3:00 pm. The only place left to eat in town is the bar. The closest restaurant outside of town is 15 miles. Winter nights are dark and snowy. Deer frequent the roads and often find a car to destroy. When I go to Toledo to see my daughter, grandsons and great-granddaughter, the cell phone is perpetually ringing. To ask me what I am doing, tell me he is bored or lonely, and that he is tired of feeding the dog in my absence. Thank goodness, he stayed home!!
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