Button Day

Button Day is a fun day to collect, use, and just enjoy buttons. Button come in all sorts of shapes, sizes, colors and designs. There is an amazingly endless variety of buttons for your collection.

But, wait a minute…. is that the meaning of this day!? Maybe, the purpose of this day is to wear buttons. You know, those diverse buttons that send a message for political purposes. Or, ones that have funny sayings. Or, a button with a smiley face to cheer everyone up.

Here are a few interpretations of Button Day:

• Button Collecting and Display Day – collect and display clothing buttons
• Button Up Day- ‘cuz it’s cold outside!
• Pushing Your Buttons Day – you’re kidding me, aren’t you!?
• Belly Button Day – now, here’s one that could be real fun
• Belly Button Fuzz Day – it’s amazing what you find in there.
• Wear Buttons Day – skip the political buttons. My favourite is a Smiley button.

However you choose to celebrate, have a Happy Button Day!

Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day

Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day is today.

What’s that in the back of the refrigerator!? I don’t want to find out. Don’t open it…… the odour may overwhelm you!!! Hold your breath, scrunch your nose if you must, and get to the task.

Everything in your refrigerator was once a fresh, healthy food, ready for your consumption. It may have been a tasty leftover, intended for later enjoyment. Unfortunately, over the course of weeks or more, things get pushed to the back of the refrigerator and slowly transform into something impossible to identify.

We’ve all run across items in the refrigerator that once were tasty food,  but now, they are some dried out, mold covered, and so nasty that you remove and dispose of at arms length.

Who wins the prize for the worst refrigerator surprises? Most often, it’s workplace refrigerators.

Use this day to clean out your refrigerator, top to bottom. When it comes to food safety, we fall back to the old saying ” When in doubt, throw it  out!”

Operating Room Nurse Day

Operating Room Nurse Day honors those important nurses, who care for patients before, during and immediately after surgery. It’s a very important role, during a period where a patient’s comfort and life is in another person’s hands.

Show your thanks and appreciation to an operating nurse that you know. You can send them cards or Ecards. However, just a simple, spoken “thank you” will do.

World Kindness Day

It is very kind of you to visit this important page, and learn more about World Kindness Day.

World Kindness Day encourages us to be kind to others, helping to create a nicer, better world.

According to the World Kindness Movement website, World Kindness Day is intended to “build a kinder and more compassionate world”.

Use today as an opportunity to be kind to family, friends, neighbours, and others. You will find kindness rubs off on others, and generates even more kindness.

Be kind to everyone today. Even if it’s just a smile.

Chicken Soup for the Soul Day

Chicken Soup for the Soul Day is today. It’s a celebration about you.

According to the creators of the book series of the same name, Chicken Soup for the Soul Day was created as “…. a celebration of who you are, where you’ve been, where you’re going, and who you will be thankful to when you get there!”

We suggest you take this day as a celebration of the value and healing of chicken soup, especially mom’s chicken soup. Chicken soup has long been seen as a remedie for colds, flus, and just about anything that ails you. You can’t find that healing in a can. You can only find it in mom’s homemade chicken soup.

Have a happy Chicken Soup for the Soul Day.

Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day  is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth countries since the end of World War I to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty. This day, or alternative dates, are also recognised as special days for war remembrances in many non-Commonwealth countries. Remembrance Day is observed on 11 November to recall the end of hostilities of World War I on that date in 1918. Hostilities formally ended “at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month,” in accordance with the Armistice, signed by representatives of Germany and the Entente between 5:12 and 5:20 that morning. (“At the 11th hour” refers to the passing of the 11th hour, or 11:00 am) World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919.

The day was specifically dedicated by King George V on 7 November 1919 as a day of remembrance for members of the armed forces who were killed during World War I. This was possibly done upon the suggestion of Edward George Honey to Wellesley Tudor Pole, who established two ceremonial periods of remembrance based on events in 1917.

The Initial or Very First Armistice Day was held at Buckingham Palace commencing with King George V hosting a “Banquet in Honour of The President of the French Republic”during the evening hours of November 10, 1919. The First Official Armistice Day was subsequently held on the Grounds of Buckingham Palace on the Morning of November 11, 1919. This would set the trend for a day of Remembrance for decades to come.

The red remembrance poppy has become a familiar emblem of Remembrance Day due to the poem “In Flanders Fields”. These poppies bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders in World War I, their brilliant red colour an appropriate symbol for the blood spilled in the war.

Please take a moment of silence today to remember all of the brave soldiers who gave their lives so that we may have our freedom.

Forget-Me-Not Day

Forget-Me-Not Day is a day to remember family, friends, and loved ones.

People use this day to get in touch with family, friends and loved ones, especially those who we haven’t seen in a while. You don’t want them to forget you, do you!? This day is intended to remember the living. But, some people have used it to memorialize a loved one who is no longer with us.

Here are some great ways to celebrate National Forget Me Not Day:

• Send Forget Me Not Day Ecards to everyone on your email address book.
• Send Forget Me Not flowers to people you haven’t seen in a while.
• Give Forget Me Not flower seed packets to family and friends. This is very popular. The seed packets are very inexpensive and easy to mail.
• Phone people you haven’t seen in a while and wish them a happy National Forget Me Not Day. They will get the message.

Flower of the Day: Why, it’s Forget-Me-Nots….of course!!

Chaos Never Dies Day

Chaos Never Dies Day recognizes the turmoil in modern, everyday life. Are things a little crazy at home? Is school a little on the wild side? Is your work place hectic and disorderly? We thought so.

Just when things seem to calm down at work and home, along comes something to disrupt your life. Yes, disorder is everywhere. Hectic schedules, changes to plans, unexpected tasks and chores, the list goes on and on and on…….

Today is designed for you. It’s a day to recognize the chaos in your life. You can best celebrate this day, by recognizing that chaos never dies. Rather, its a way of life. You can partake in this special day, by putting just a little order back into your life. You can start by picking one thing that is really disrupting your life, and change it…for the good.

On the bright side: If you think your life is chaotic today, just wait until the holiday season arrives!

Did you Know? There is a scientific chaos theory.

We hope you have a calm and serene  Chaos Never Dies Day!!!

Dunce Day

Dunce Day celebrates the the term “Dunce” and dunce caps. Today marks the death (November 8, 1308) of medieval scholar Duns Scotus of Duns, Scotland.

Dunce Day is all about learning. So, lets get right to it and learn about dunce caps and the creator of dunce caps.

Duns Scotus of Duns, Scotland was a medieval scholar. Perceptions of his views ranged from brilliant to less than complimentary. Duns Scotus believed that cone shaped hats increased learning potential. He believed knowledge would flow from the point of the cap, down and into the head of the wearer, making that person smarter. About all this accomplished over time, was the perception of a person wearing a dunce cap to be…… a dunce. There was a positive side to his use of dunce caps. It motivated the wearer to learn more, so he could be rid of the the cap. Scholar critics of his work derived the term “dunce” from his name and place of birth.

Put on a Dunce Cap today, and have a very smart and educational Dunce Day!!!

National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day

National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day is today. Lucky you….lucky me.

Chocolate is a vegetable, made from cocoa beans. Almonds are good for you, as they help to improve your Cholesterol levels. So, bittersweet chocolate with almonds is good for you, right!?

On this special day, we will not question this logic…will you?

Happy National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day!!!