What to Celebrate November 23 thru 29, 2020
Celebration Ideas for November 23 – 29, 2020
Can you believe Thanksgiving is next week?! How can one year seem so long and so short at the same time?
Of course, having something to celebrate every day helps pass the time. And make it more enjoyable too.
So whether you’re celebrating cashews, sardines, or a turkey-free Thanksgiving, we wish you happiness and good health.
So do go ahead: Take a peek and plan your week. And always remember to …
Enjoy!
Celebrate for the rest of November
The holiday season is about caring and food (let’s not kid ourselves, we all look forward to the food!). So make sure to enjoy some pomegranates and raisin bread before the month is out. And do something to show how much you care about senior pets and manatees.
National Pomegranate Month: Enjoy the beautiful, delicious, and healthful red fruit for the rest of the month and all year long. If you’ve never mastered the art of getting those seeds out without making your entire kitchen red you can buy just the pomegranate seeds (either fresh or dried!). And of course, pomegranate juice is simple and refreshing.
National Raisin Bread Month: Raisin bread is a treat any time of day and in so many ways. If you bake it yourself, a fresh still-warm slice is divine all on its own. Toasted and buttered it makes a sweet snack. French toast made with raisin bread is something extra-special (especially if it’s raisin-cinnamon!). And peanut butter sandwiches on raisin bread are next level delicious. How else do you enjoy your raisin bread?
And don’t forget you still have plenty of time to celebrate peanut butter, Georgia pecans, no straws and much more. Including these:
Manatee Awareness Month: Give the weird-looking but amazing manatees some more love this month. They deserve it!
Adopt a Senior Pet Month: Speaking of animals that deserve love, senior pets deserve all the love you can give! What senior pets don’t deserve is to spend one second more than is necessary in a shelter. So if you have room for a senior pet in your life, get out there and find your perfect companion.
Weekly Celebrations for 11/23 to 11/29
Thanksgiving week is the time for gathering with family. Whether you’re gathering in person or virtually make sure to enjoy every moment spent together. And since we all want family to be healthy, learn the symptoms of GERD & encourage anyone with those symptoms to visit a doctor.
National Family Week (November 22 – 28, 2020): Celebrate your family! And the importance of strong families to our society. Even if you’re not able to be with your family physically this year, make sure to let all your family members know how much you love them. And recommit to staying as connected as possible for this year and every year.
GERD Awareness Week (November 22 – 28, 2020): Do you or a loved one have frequent heartburn? Have you been checked out for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease? If not, consider seeing your doctor, because frequent heartburn can signal GERD. And GERD is more than just annoying. It can raise your risk for esophageal cancer.
National Game and Puzzle Week (November 22 – 28, 2020): Games & puzzles make for fun family gatherings both in-person and virtually. So get out everybody’s favorite games or a new puzzle to do together. Or challenge far-flung family to online games. Either way, it’s a simple recipe for a fun-tastic week! (And you know we’re all about fun-tastic weeks 😊).
Celebration Days coming up for Nov. 23 thru Nov. 29
Of course Thanksgiving is on Thursday the 26th, but before that we get to celebrate The Doctor, espresso, sardines, and international hats 😉, among other things.
But the fun doesn’t stop when the holiday ends. No! We get to move on to flossing, kindness, and electronic greetings.
These and more promise to make for another fun-tastic week!
November 23:
Doctor Who Day: Celebrate the anniversary of the day back in 1963 when a rather peculiar alien man first began traveling in space and time.
Fibonacci Day: It’s time for some math! Celebrate the sequence of numbers that’s apparently quite important in nature as well as math. Leonardo Bonacci (Leonardo of Pisa/Leonardo Fibonacci) first described this sequence, created by adding the last 2 numbers in the sequence to get the next number. We celebrate on 11/23 because of the first 4 (non-zero) numbers in the sequence: 1123. Why not learn more about Fibonacci and his sequence for the day?
National Espresso Day: Having trouble concentrating on your Fibonacci numbers? Maybe an espresso would help. And even if you don’t need it to stay alert, have one because it’s delicious.
National Eat a Cranberry Day: Well, we’re not sure why anyone would want to eat just one cranberry, so we suggest celebrating this day by adding cranberries to every meal. Add cranberries to your cereal or oatmeal for breakfast (fresh or dried is up to you!). Add dried cranberries to your salad for lunch. And marinate your dinner meat choice in a marinade with cranberries.
National Cashew Day: When you’re not eating cranberries, make sure you’re eating cashews! Even better, enjoy them together in something like these cranberry-cashew drop cookies. Or maybe you’d prefer cranberry-cashew clusters. No baking required!
November 24:
D.B. Cooper Day: Celebrate the anniversary of the day a man with the alias Dan Cooper hijacked a plane, then parachuted out and disappeared. It happened on November 24, 1971, and we still don’t know for sure what happened to him. But at least one reporter believes he was a man named Robert Rackstraw.
Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day: What’s your unique talent? Yes, you do have one. We all do! Although some are admittedly more useful than others. No matter how useful or useless yours is, show it off for this day.
National Sardines Day: We sure do hope you like sardines! Because this is the day to eat them. You’re probably most familiar with the canned sardines, packed in everything from water to mustard. But you can buy them fresh & cook them up yourself, too. Maybe you’d prefer them this way?
November 25:
National Jukebox Day: The day before Thanksgiving is for gathering around the jukebox and enjoying good music and good friends. Although this year the gathering may have to be smaller as most places with jukeboxes are limiting crowd sizes. If they’re open at all. But that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy music. Especially since you can be your own DJ right from your phone.
National Tie One On Day: If you’re enjoying your Jukebox Day at home double up the fun by tying on an apron (what did you think the day’s name meant?!) and bake something. Then deliver your baked goods wrapped in the apron (or a clean one!), along with an encouraging note in the pocket, to someone less fortunate than you. It’s the perfect way to get into the giving and thankful spirit of the season.
Blasé Day: Well now, this celebration kind of goes against the spirit of Jukebox Day and Tie One On Day. But this year they all fall on the same day. So go ahead and be bored and unimpressed with the day (except the music and baking parts!).
International Hat Day: For this day you must wear an international hat. 😉 Why an international hat? To differentiate this day from National Hat Day in January, of course! 😁
National Parfait Day: Hmmm … We’re thinking it could be hard to be blasé for this day. Between music & baking/giving & hats & now parfaits?! But we’ll give it a try and see if we can possibly be blase while enjoying this delightful, layered dessert (or breakfast … it’s all up to you).
November 26:
Turkey-free Thanksgiving: Not everybody believes the turkey deserves a place of honor on the Thanksgiving table. Whether you prefer other meats or no meat at all, consider celebrating Thanksgiving without a turkey this year. Heresy you say? Then this celebration probably isn’t for you!
National Day of Mourning: As most Americans celebrate their Thanksgiving, Native Americans in New England spend the 4th Thursday in November honoring their ancestors, remembering the genocide they faced, and protesting the oppression the Native community still faces today.
National Cake Day: This year National Cake Day falls on Thanksgiving. So you may want to forgo the pie and make dessert a cake this year. Or have 2 desserts: a pie and a cake! If ever we deserved to indulge it’s this pandemic year of 2020.
November 27:
Buy Nothing Day: The day after Thanksgiving has become the unofficial start to the Christmas shopping season, with stores competing to shower you with the best deals of the year. Black Friday has even bled into Thanksgiving in recent years. But that has begun to change again, and while this day has been around since the 1990s its no-shopping theme has been gaining momentum. Surely this year we have learned it’s the people, not the things, in our lives that really matter?
Random Acts of Kindness Friday: To go along with Buy Nothing Day, this day is all about transforming the greed & excess of Black Friday into something kinder. So skip the buying spree and go on a kindness spree instead!
National Day of Listening: It’s yet another reason to avoid shopping on the day after Thanksgiving! Gather your family (around your table or on a conference call) and have them tell stories of your family history. Make sure your record them to share with other family members (even those not yet born) in the future.
National Flossing Day: We sure do hope you floss immediately after that Thanksgiving meal, but if not (or even if you did) this day is here to remind you that flossing at least once a day helps keep your gums & teeth healthy. And if you don’t floss regularly (or even semi-regularly) use this day to start making it a habit.
National Craft Jerky Day: Skip the gas station & convenience store jerky. Instead discover the amazing taste sensation that is craft jerky. It’s made in small batches with quality meats, often with generations-old recipes. You’ll never go back to those overly salty, shrink-wrapped sticks again.
National Bavarian Cream Pie Day: If you skipped the pie on Thanksgiving in favor of cake (for National Cake Day, or course) here’s your chance to enjoy a slice of pie. It’ll have to be Bavarian cream though. Luckily you can make Bavarian cream in many different flavors, including pumpkin in case you missed out on the pumpkin pie.
November 28:
International Aura Awareness Day: Are you aware of your aura? Did you even realize you have one? We all have an inner light. And whether or not you believe some people can “see” that light or that it changes based on our physical or mental health, why not spend some time learning about this idea? It certainly can’t hurt.
National French Toast Day: Enjoy French toast for breakfast. Or brunch. Or any time you please, really. Because it’s simple to make and delicious to eat. And we deserve more of that.
November 29:
Electronic Greetings Day: Send someone (or a lot of someones) electronic greetings to celebrate this day. Make it an ecard, a text, a video, or whatever you like. Do it even if the only greeting you have to offer is Happy Electronic Greetings Day! Of course, if you know any lemon cream pie lovers you could celebrate this next day with an e-greeting too.
National Lemon Cream Pie Day: Celebrate the end of another successfully fun-tastic week and weekend with a refreshing lemon cream pie. You deserve it!
