Ever since my freshman year of college I have been looking for any excuse to throw a party. My first big success was on National Pancake day on February 23.
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We had pancakes, buttermilk pancakes, corn meal pancakes, chocolate chip pancakes, banana pancakes, German pancakes, crepes, and all the toppings imaginable to go with them.
I then successfully threw a costume party on my birthday in April, but nobody knew it was my birthday, I just threw a “random” party. I found out quickly that my friends, neighbors, and classmates were dying to have a little fun, somebody just needed to organize it! The guests at my “not-birthday-party” filled our little apartment and spilled out onto the balcony. It was a huge hit!
So I continued to look for an excuse to throw a party.
Here are a few of my favorite “holidays” (if they can really be considered holidays, that is!):
Pie Day on March 14, as pi is 3.14, get it? So we make lots of pies and invite friends over to help us eat them.
National Ice Cream Day on the third Sunday in July, which happens to be the 17th this year. Even if you don’t throw a big party, at least sit down and enjoy a good serving of your favorite ice cream! Phish Food by Ben and Jerry’s is a must have for this occasion!
National Talk Like a Pirate Day on September 19. Talk like a pirate, dress like a pirate, eat like a pirate, send your kids on a treasure hunt…the possibilities are endless!!
I have yet to find any official celebration day in August, but the tall, handsome man in the picture above found a solution to that by marrying me on August 8th, 2008, so we will always have a reason to celebrate that month. Feel free to celebrate with us, if you so desire! 😉
January
9 – Positively Penguins Day
13 – Rubber Duckie Day
29 – National Puzzle Day
31 – National Popcorn Day
February
23 – National Pancake Day
March
2 – Dr. Seuss Day
14 – Pi Day
April
1 – April Fools Day
17 – National Cheese Ball Day
24 – National Pigs in a Blanket Day
25 – National Zucchini Bread Day
May
3 – Different colored shoes day
4 – Intergalactic Star Wars Day – May the Fourth be with you
5 – Cinco de Mayo
June
16 – Fudge Day
July
4 – Independence Day
15 – Gummy Worm Day
17 – National Ice Cream Day (third Sunday in June)
August
08 08 08!!! (My anniversary :))
September
12 – Video Games Day
16 – Mayflower Day
19 – National Talk Like a Pirate Day
October
9 – National Chess Day
18 – National Chocolate Cupcake day
31 – Halloween
November
2- Cookie Monster’s Birthday
And don’t forget Thanksgiving on the 4th Thursday of the month!
December
5 – Ninja Day
25 – Christmas, of course!
31 – New Year’s Eve
What’s your favorite day (or way) to celebrate?
~ Kristin
You really have me thinking and googling this morning. What a great post! My great-grandson turned 1 on Feb.19. His parents drove him from South Carolina to Mt. Airy, NC just so he could have his first hair cut at Floyd’s Barber Shop. (remember the Andy Griffith Show) I googled Elmo and his birthday is Feb.3 (on the calendar for next year) My granddaughter is an RN nurse and National RN Day is May 6. Another granddaughter is a Nurse Anesthetist and that day is Jan 23.
I love it.
My anniversary is also in August, so we’ve got that covered, too!
Great post!
So, I just found the mother-load of obscure holidays…
http://www.holidayinsights.com, then click “Bizarre Unique Holidays”. It’s fun because it tells about them too 🙂
Here’s some for August:
Aug. 3 – National Watermelon Day
Aug. 7 – Friendship Day
Aug. 12 – Middle Child’s Day
Aug. 18 – Bad Poetry Day
Aug. 30 – Frankenstein Day
I love this! Gives me lots of homeschool ideas too…I’m sure you’ll hear all about them.
Haha… I did some research too!
http://familycrafts.about.com/library/spdays/blaugdayslong.htm
August 4th is National Chocolate Chip Day
1st week in August is National Clown Week
August 10th is S’Mores Day!!
August 25th is National Banana Split Day
August 31st is National Trail Mix Day…. etc 🙂
we have the same anniversary and my sister-in-law noted that when you turn the 8s on their sides they make infinity signs.
Nice! Clown week would be fun!
Don’t forget Groundhog Day, February 2! It’s one of my favorites–we always eat ground hog (sausage!) in the form of pigs in blankets.
We try to celebrate random holidays as well…
Here’s the list we follow… 😉
http://www.louderbacks.com/home/dict/days.html
Love it! We celebrate leap year day with sushi and Dr Seuss’ birthday with green eggs and ham. This year we made Abraham Lincoln’s favorite meal, chicken fricassee, for his birthday and had cherry pie on presidents day.
I also found out just recently that National Pancake Day this year will be celebrated by IHOP on March 1st. Go in for a free short stack of pancakes – all they ask in return is a donation to Children’s Miracle Network (of which I am a big fan as my son spends a lot of time at Primary Children’s!).
We love celebrating obscure holidays around here – I love National Leave a Zucchini on Your Neighbor’s Porch day… mostly because I am always craving Zucchini bread and I advertise it amongst my neighbors to get myself a few Zukes (which they are happy to part with – in exchange for bread…)
Besides, having family birthdays on Earth Day, Groundhog’s Day, and Pi Day – we have learned to love the fun of throwing themed parties 🙂
I love celebrating random days! Me and my sister do this often but I never thought of having a full blown party. I love it! My anniversary is 8/8/08 too. 🙂
I love the give your neighbors ingredients to make you some bread! You’re funny!
Those are all fun ideas, love the making Abe Lincolns favorite recipe one!
I’ve been meaning to look these fun dates up…I know there is a wear crazy socks day. I’m going to have to save this list in a handy spot…actuallly, I’m going to add it to my birthday calendar tonight! Thanks for sharing!
What a great way to start a new tradition with your family! Thank you! We have just recently started celebrating ground hog day too on Feb 2 that’s been a fun new tradition that we started about 3 years ago.
I loved this post! Thanks for the list. Once I’m done with my student teaching in May, I can start having fun things to plan for.
I just got a CurrClick newsletter today and noticed that March 24 is chocolate covered raisin day. How fun…that’s the only way I’ll eat raisins.