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It’s rEcess night, so this is brief.
Brother-in-Law’s car is in the shop, we’re thankful for Mr. J loaning him the truck for a while, until they can figure out what’s up.
Last Saturday, #2 Son dropped Daughter-in-Law and Annie to visit while i was cleaning and he went to work, then came a stayed a while. We were thankful for a fun visit with Grandma.
#1 Son’s car is repaired, and so is #2 Son’s, we are thankful for a reprieve in the car swapping game.
I was able to help Ms. G find her pashminas, thankfully. She’d forgotten which closet and i was able to dig in the back of my brain and come up with where i’d seen them.
I showed Ms. D her toaster pictures and dug another huge, burning piece of bread out of her toaster, i’m thankful she now knows to be more careful.
Thursday was another double shift day, Ms. SE and Ms. GA, and we’re thankful it went rather smoothly.
Our little Annie is down to one good, long afternoon nap, and we’re thankful it’s mostly working to keep her on a schedule.
Mrs. C who runs rEcess showed up and casually mentioned the older boy wouldn't be there, he was home with a very high fever.
I'm thankful when i looked at her and said, "He has flu, doesn't he?" she answered, "Well, it's all over his school," and then she heeded my response, which was, "You have all been exposed to flu and you are going to come down with it. Go home now. You cannot be here giving it to the kids here."
She listened and left. We're thankful we had plenty of volunteers, food, games, i took care of meds, babies! time was spent out of wheelchairs having fun, we created fun art, and we just had a jolly good time.
(For any who don't know, rEcess is a program where we take care of special children and their siblings, free of charge, so parents can have a date night.)
Please write up your own list and link up to Ten Things of Thankful, where Clark and his co-hosts always have a warm welcome waiting.
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Today is:
Acadian Remembrance Day -- Acadians of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island
AKC/Royal Canin National Championships -- Orlando, FL, US (top dogs from around the world compete to see -- who really is top dog? through tomorrow)
Count the La's in "Deck the Halls" Day -- just so you can say you know
Feast of Hathor -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (goddess of joy, feminine love, and motherhood; date approximate)
Fiesta de Santo Tomas -- Chichicastenango, Guatemala (week long festival celebrating the town's Patron Saint that includes the Palo Volador dance, where men hang by ropes from 30 meter poles, spinning and swinging)
Ice Cream and Violins Day -- another of those silly made up holidays that no one can trace, but would be fun to celebrate. Get yourself a bowl of buttered pecan or rum raisin -- if you are going to celebrate, do it in style -- and put in a Mozart or Bach CD, and enjoy!
Icelandic Yuletide Lad of the Day, Giljagaur -- Gully Oaf, who tries to sneak in the cowshed and skim the cream from the pails of milk
Ides of December -- Ancient Roman Calendar; other observance
Festival for Tellus -- a/k/a Tellura or Tellus Mater, the personification of the earth's productive powers
International Shareware Day
Jum ir-Repubblika -- Malta (Republic Day)
National Day -- Santa Lucia (on St. Lucy's Day)
National Day of the Horse -- US (by Congressional resolution, information here)
New Calendar Day -- time to get the 2020 model, unless you contribute to so many charities you are already flooded with them
Peace Day -- Korea (the fighting stopped in 1953, but the Koreas didn't sign a formal nonaggression pact until this day in 1991)
Pick a Pathologist Pal Day -- Wellcat Holidays reminds us that pathologists and coroners are an especially jovial lt, and befriending them is a good way to remind yourself that tomorrow is never guaranteed
Runic Half-month Jara commences (fruition)
St. Herman of Alaska (Orthodox Church Patron of the Americas)
St. Jodocus' Day (Patron of boatmen, harvests, mariners, sailors, watermen; against fever, fire, storms, and shipwrecks)
Saint Lucy's Day (Patron of authors, blind people, cutlers, glaziers, laborers, martyrs, peasants, saddlers, salesmen, sore eyes/eye problems, sore throats, stained glass workers; Begijnendijk, Flemish Brabant, Belgium; Conzano, Italy; Mtarfa, Malta; Perugia, Italy; Santa Lucia di Piave, Italy; Syracuse, Sicily, Italy; Villa Santa Lucia, Latium, Italy; against blindness, dysentery, epidemics, eye diseases, hemorraghes)
Feast of the Light-bringer -- honoring Juno Lucina (Roman goddess of light) and Lucia (Old Swedish goddess of light), all now merged with St. Lucy
Little Yule a/k/a Luciadagen or Santa Lucia (Festival of Lights in many parts of Scandinavia, honoring St. Lucia.)
Birthdays Today:
Taylor Swift, 1989
Amy Lee, 1981
Tom DeLonge, 1975
Christie Clark, 1973
Jamie Foxx, 1967
Steve Buscemi, 1958
Wendie Malick, 1950
Ted Nugent, 1949
John Davidson, 1941
Aga Khan IV, 1936
Christopher Plummer, 1929
Dick Van Dyke, 1925
Archie Moore, 1913
Kenneth Patchen, 1911
Mary Todd Lincoln, 1818
Heinrich Heine, 1797
Debuting/Premiering Today:
The Susan B. Anthony Dollar(USD coin), 1978
"Alice's Restaurant"(Song and Album), 1969
"An American In Paris"(Gershwin Symphony), 1928
Today in History:
The Council of Trent opens, 1545
Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to circumnavigate the globe, 1577
Emperor Ferdinand II delegates the first Anti-Reformation decree, 1621
The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes 3 militias which are today seen as the founding of the United States National Guard, 1636
Dutch navigator Abel Tasman becomes the first European to land in New Zealand, 1642
Dartmouth College in New Hampshire is chartered, 1769
Italo Marcioni patents an ice cream cone, 1903
The Relay 1 communication satellite is launched, 1962
Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17, 1972
The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004, 2002
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured, 2003
The Baiji, or Chinese River Dolphin, is announced as extinct, 2006
Scientists in northeast Madagascar confirm a new species of lemur has been found, 2010
An unpublished early work by Hans Christian Anderson is found at the bottom of a filing box at the National Archives of Funen, 2012
The bones of a prehistoric penguin that was as tall as a human (1.77m) have been found on Otago beach, New Zealand, as reported in "Nature Communications", 2017
Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California announce they have been able to replicate nuclear fusion, the same reaction which fuels the sun, for the first time in a laboratory setting, 2022
Researchers pinpoint very low levels of the hormone GDF15 as a possible cause of extreme morning sickness in pregnancy, 2023
The US Center for Disease Control confirms the first severe case of a person with bird flu, in Louisiana, 2024
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