Food for thought...Day 6...Happy Holidays!

With the new year beginning, we are all gearing up for another round...another year of holidays...

Did you know that every month has a holiday?

January has "New Years Day" as well as "Martin Luther King day"
February has "Valentines Day" and "Presidents Day"
March has "St. Patrick's Day" and "SPRING BEGINS DAY!"
April has "Easter"
May has "Mother's Day" and "Memorial Day"
June has "Flag Day" and "Father's Day" and "SUMMER BEGINS DAY!"
July has "Independence Day" and if you live in UTAH...we also have "Pioneer Day"
August has "Back to school day"....I consider that a holiday
September has "Labor day"
October has "Halloween" and "Columbus Day"
November has "Veterans Day" and "Thanksgiving"
December has "Christmas" and "Hanukkah"

See...our year should be full of party's and good food...along with plenty of fun. BUT do any of us really take advantage of all the holidays offered for us to "live it up?"......I admit that I don't.

3 Holidays that I adore...3 that I don't adore so much

Adore #1: Christmas...doesn't that one make the top of everyone's list? 

It's not the presents that make Christmas for me, it's the "feeling" in the air, the family time and beauty of the season. I just LOVE the sights, the sounds and the feel of Christmas. Its fun to "give" gifts to those I love. I get excited about seeing the look on their faces as they open a gift of something they are so surprised to get. I love having parties and spending time with my family. I love the FOOD (you knew that one was coming) because there is so much of it that we only eat during the holidays...so it's a novelty. Its just such a wonderful time of year. It seems as though the world is smiling ear to ear for the month of December. 

Adore #2: New Years Eve/New Years Day...(all one big holiday to me)

New Year's Eve is a huge family party for us. We EAT and EAT all sorts of exciting and scrumptious food. We play games until the New Year rolls in...then we sleep late and lay around all New Year's Day watching movies and eating MORE of that fabulous food. It's so much fun...just really laid back and relaxing. It's the last of our "big hurrah's" for the holidays...so we suck in all the family time we can get and live it up.

Adore #3: Easter
Easter begins "Spring" for me. It's a reminder of everything new and alive again. It's a time of color and chirping birds. It's a time for family celebration and happiness. Its just "one of those" wonderful holidays that I love.

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Don't Adore #1: Halloween
Halloween use to be fun when I had small children who loved to dress up and go trick-or-treating. We had a lot of fun family traditions that went along with the holiday of black and orange. We use to have a mystery dinner that my kids looked forward to for months. We went to carnivals and made the round to visit all the grandparents in town, showing off the kids cute costumes. We have a lot of fun memories tied to Halloween. Then the kids grew up...(need I say more?) no one cared about the mystery dinner anymore, no one wanted to go see all the grandparents on Halloween and no one wanted to stay at home and eat spaghetti like the "good ol' days". It just quickly became a "lost holiday".

Don't Adore #2: Valentines Day 
I use to get so excited for this "special day". It use to be a fun day for the first few years of our marriage and then I guess it lost its "Novelty"...no more romantic dinner dates, no more sweet cards and no more bouquets of flowers....it just became another day. I use to get really disappointed that hubby didn't get into like I did, but then I just quit buying the gifts too and let the disappointment of the "lost holiday" roll off my back. Its just another day...Its just another day....(I just have to keep telling myself that!)

Don't Adore #3: Labor Day
I guess its more of "what this day" symbolizes to me, more than the day itself. To me this day marks the END OF SUMMER...and the beginning of Autumn and Winter....therefore making it a "Don't Adore Holiday" for me. We usually don't do anything overly fun on this day...and it just comes and goes without much being said about it.

I would love to hear what your favorite holidays are...and how you celebrate them (please share)!

I hope to make this year full of more celebrating...after all, we have all of these days

 each month to "live it UP", I guess we should take advantage of them!