Celebrate October!

Autumn is easily my favorite season of the year.  Apparently it is also a favorite for the guys behind the National Month titles for October alone is honored with 112 of them.  I knew it is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and continually purchase pink ribbon-ed items when I get the chance.  But there's 111 more to celebrate or recognize, including Down Syndrome Awareness Month.

Fittingly, just after having celebrated National Coffee Day on September 29th, October is Caffeine Addiction Recovery Month.  I imagine the person behind that sequence decided if you overdid yourself on National Coffee Day (or thoroughly caffeinated your children) it might take a month to recover. 

There are also some interesting National Days in October: 

National Fire Pup Day, October 1:  Does your preschooler need a craft?  Click here for a darling fire pup craft using a Styrofoam cup.  And when they're finished and hungry for a snack, make some great cookies together because today is also National Homemade Cookies Day.

Do Something Nice Day, October 5:  Challenge your children to find something nice to do for someone--their teacher, or maybe a sibling. 

National Frappe Day, October 7:  Yeah, I know.  This is Caffeine Addiction Recovery Month.  Apparently today saves those people from going cold turkey--and gives the rest of us who aren't addicted an excellent excuse for a good ol' caramel frappe.  Yes, caramel.  October is National Caramel Month.

Low on lunch ideas?  Here's one: National Fluffernutter Day, October 8:  Whoever came up with this didn't necessarily have a real bent for health food, or else had overdosed his children on greens and whole grains and was trying to counterbalance that with a fluffernutter.  A fluffernutter is a sandwich made on white bread and spread with peanut butter and marshmallow creme.   It is a lunch idea.  I didn't say it was a good one.

National Sausage Pizza Day, October 11:  At least one meal this month is planned in advance! or if you want your meals planned two days in a row, celebrate National Gumbo Day on October 12.

National Take Your Parents to Lunch Day, October 16:  Aw, that's my mom's birthday and she lives two whole states away. If it were possible, though, I'd jump at the chance!

Make a Difference Day, October 25:  For better or for worse, we almost always are making a difference to someone.  But what fun to have a day to purposefully look for ways to make a positive difference to somebody!  Wouldn't it be fun to do it for a stranger?  Do something like putting $10 on the grocery bill for the person behind you in line.  Find a way, and make a difference!  

National Mother-in-law Day, October 26:  What better excuse than this to thank your mother-in-law for raising a wonderful son and then giving him away? 

So there you go.  Have fun Celebrating October!