Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is to celebrate little holidays in general. It's better
Speaker 1: to embrace any opportunity for festivity rather than letting these
Speaker 1: moments just pass us by. So a great many years
Speaker 1: ago one of our babysitters introduced my children to the
Speaker 1: concept of the Saint Patrick's Day Leprechaun. And I don't
Speaker 1: just mean in a mythical sense or drawing him in
Speaker 1: coloring books or something. They learned that as part of
Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Day celebrations, one could build a trap to
Speaker 1: catch a leprechaun, and if the leprechaun escaped, he'd probably
Speaker 1: leave them presents. Now, I have to say I was
Speaker 1: not a big fan of yet another magical creature holiday.
Speaker 1: We get visits from the Easter Bunny and the Tooth
Speaker 1: Fairy and Santa Claus already, so I wasn't sure we
Speaker 1: really needed to be blessed with yet another visit. But
Speaker 1: the kids really enjoyed it, and so over the years
Speaker 1: I've gotten a bit more into the idea of not
Speaker 1: being a Saint Patrick's Day scrooge. But even without visits
Speaker 1: from magical creatures, there are lots of ways to celebrate
Speaker 1: a minor holiday. Making fun shaped or colored pancakes is
Speaker 1: a good one. It's pretty easy to make pancake batter
Speaker 1: red for Valentine's Day and make heart shaped pancakes, or
Speaker 1: to color the batter green and make shamrock shaped pancakes
Speaker 1: for Saint Patrick's Day. Everyone likes the whimsy of holiday
Speaker 1: themed candy or wearing the appropriate color. If the holiday
Speaker 1: is associated with a particular country or culture, it might
Speaker 1: be possible to eat the cuisine from that culture for dinner.
Speaker 1: If you've got kids, you might check out a book
Speaker 1: from the library that's based on that holiday and read
Speaker 1: this as a bedtime story. None of this is particularly difficult,
Speaker 1: but it does involve recognizing that the holiday is coming up.
Speaker 1: It means noting it on the calendar and making a
Speaker 1: few preparations. So that is work. But then when you
Speaker 1: do that, the day feels a little more memorable. So
Speaker 1: much of life just disappears into the past. But a
Speaker 1: day when you all wear green sweaters and have shamrock
Speaker 1: pancakes and check to see if the leprechaun escape from
Speaker 1: the special trap you built and then enjoy Irish food
Speaker 1: for dinner is just going to be a little more memorable.
Speaker 1: So why not celebrate a few little holidays. You can
Speaker 1: look through your calendar and see what appeals to you,
Speaker 1: or it could be a regularly occurring occasion like the
Speaker 1: full moon. But there's nothing wrong with putting a little
Speaker 1: more festivity into life. Little adventures shake things up and
Speaker 1: that is a good thing. In the meantime, This is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
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