Did you know yesterday was National Scrabble Day?!
A couple years ago my family and I decided to choose one of those obscure National daily holidays a month to celebrate, you know like Daniel Boone day or bubba yum bubble gum day (ok, I think I made that last one up, but you never know). At the beginning of 2018 I sat down and planned out what we were going to celebrate each month for the whole year. At the time my kids were in 4th and 1st grades and I was already feeling the sands of time slipping away with them, I thought this would be such a fun way to create more memories together. I decided if there was a regular holiday (Valentines Day, St. Patricks Day, Easter, Christmas etc) we would celebrate that during the month instead of an obscure holiday (I'm not completely insane). So we celebrated things like Paul Bunyan day (yes we did!), shark awareness, Harry Potter day, Mexican Independence day (not cinco de mayo though we celebrated that too, we can't get enough Mexican food around these parts). We also celebrated dia los muertos and national ice cream day to name a few.
This was such a fun year for us. My kids loved it. We kept it relatively simply, that's just how I roll. I like to do fun things, but I tend to not make it over the top. If you're an over the top kind of person by all means go for it, that's just not me. I would usually do a little fun decoration, and plan dinner around the theme. And we would dress as close to the theme as we could. For shark awareness we all ate in our beach attire and I decorated with my beach blanket and beach towels. For dia los muertos we colored sugar skulls and ate Mexican food.
I decided this weekend as we were celebrating Easter that a fun way to break up the monotony of social distancing would be to bring back the monthly obscure holidays. So I sat down to plan. ( I will probably continue this through the end of the year, because why the heck not?!) These are the holidays I decided on: national picnic day (4/23), my boys are star wars obsessed so star wars day must be celebrated (5/4), then we'll combine Flag day and national strawberry shortcake day on (6/14). July I will keep it simple with independence day (7/4) and national s'mores day in August. (8/10) My husbands parents are natives of Mexico, so we will celebrate Mexican Independence on (9/16) and Halloween in October. In November we'll get crazy and celebrate dia los muertos (11/1) and Thanksgiving and we'll wrap up the year with traditional Christmas.
We will showcase a fun holiday each week on our instagram, so if you're not already following @modernfamilydesigns you should. Yesterday we posted about National Scrabble Day on our Socials!
The point of this is to say, have fun with it. Make memories with your family and do something out of the ordinary to bring a little extra joy into your home this month. I will be sharing on instagram as the time goes on how our family is celebrating the holidays starting with National picnic day on April 23rd. We hope y'all will join in and tag us in your celebrations.
You can get your own Scrabble Board Game here!
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