Absolutely Incredible Kids Day is just that all about the kids. The kids in our lives are tomorrow’s leaders and are the ones who will care for my generation when I hit senior citizen status. Our kids are our future, so let’s show them how absolutely incredible they are. I know my life would not [...]
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St Patrick’s Day was named after St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. What became as a purely Catholic holiday, it became a feast day in the 1600′s and then gradually has turned into a secular celebration of Ireland’s culture. Interestingly enough the original official color of St. Patrick’s Day was blue but eventually the association [...]
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Today is the day to celebrate America’s favorite snack. The potato chip. The potato chip was invented in the summer of 1853 in New York when a man by the name of George Crum. George had been employed at a elegant resort and one guest in particular kept finding his french fries too thick for [...]
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Today is the last day in the celebrating your name week. Today we celebrate by studying our genealogy. I admit I have never studied my genealogy, other than the simple family trees we had to do in school. Other members of my family have though and I do find their findings interesting. How many of [...]
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I’ve always been known to put things off to the last minute or be a day late and a dollar short for everything. Well, as usual, this is another example of that phenomenon. This week is Celebrate Your Name Week with today being specifically being Middle Name Pride Day. Of course this is the second [...]
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