I have been wanting to do this for years. Every December I say, next year I am going to celebrate all the holidays throughout the year. For Christmas we will celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa, and throughout the year I'm going to celebrate every holiday of every culture, not just the US Bank & Federal holidays.
I figured it would be a great way to teach my son about all different kinds of cultures and ways of doing things so that he will grow up open minded. So I would wait until he was old enough to understand.
But recently I started thinking, why does everything have to have a reason? Why can't we just celebrate life every day? Why do I have to wait to do this until I can make it a "teachable moment"? Why not start now?
Life is a journey, we're always going somewhere, doing something. As a running mom, I'm either running to train for a race, running after my toddler, running errands or running around like a chicken with my head cut off to accomplish the next task on my list of things to do.
Oh yeah, I know this to be true, because I looked back at my facebook statuses throughout the year and they're all about running somewhere.
In a normal day I will get up early to get in a run. Then I will run home to get E-man up and make breakfast. Then I will try to get as much work done as I can. Then I will try to write as many web pages as I can. And so on and so forth throughout the day.
No matter how much I get done in a day, there is always more to do, the list of things to do never gets any shorter.
How often do we ever stop and celebrate our achievements? How often do we ever stop to give thanks for what we have been given or for what we have accomplished? How often do we take the time to slow down and celebrate life and love?
Well I have decided that I am going to take the time to do that every day.
So this blog will be about celebrating a different holiday every day, and the interesting foods, celebrations and cultural lessons learned that comes with that.
But more importantly, this blog is about making every day a celebration of life. It is about enjoying every day no matter how little or much we accomplish in that day. Because life should be measured by more than just a list of accomplishments.
I love this! We don't do all the holidays year round but I we do celebrate a lot of them during December. Each year I try to teach my girls about a different celebration or depth to one they have already learned. I look forward to reading this blog!
ReplyDeleteim excited to follow your journey! what a great idea :-)
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