Celebrating Family Day
Family Day is the newest holiday here in
The third Monday in February has also been designated as Family Day in the provinces of
On our list of activities is Karaoke since we have a Karaoke machine and it’s a lot of fun. My youngest children and my husband have this crazy rap contest. It cracks me up. They’re quite good at it too and although I can sing, I cannot rap. I don’t necessarily feel like I’m missing out because they also appreciate the silly lyrics that I make up to popular songs.
My dad used to make me laugh doing that and he kept us amused on long trips with his crazy creations. This is also a good time to take out the photo albums and reminisce about fun times together. My husband lost his mother and I lost my father both within a year of each other. It threw us both for quite the loop as anyone who has lost a parent knows.
Even if you don’t have a designated family day there’s nothing saying you cannot treasure your family by planning to do special things together. They like games so Monopoly will keep us busy for quite awhile and we all get a kick out of Trouble. I like Backgammon but nobody else here seems to. Maybe on Family Day someone will humor me.
There’s another storm coming, which should not surprise me because the snowfall has been crazy the last couple of weeks. On the bright side, we can build a snow fort and a snowman, make snow angels and drink hot chocolate. We’ll throw a couple movie rentals and popcorn in for fun but it won’t be a strict schedule they have to adhere to.
Happy Family Day to those celebrating and to those who don’t, enjoy time with your family anyway.
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