Every Day is a Holiday (EDH)

 Within a few weeks of living in Greenville, I found out that there was a Big Lots. I love Big Lots. I would go there every week if I could. Well, one day we went there and got a few calendars for 2021. One of them was a daily calendar that has a random holiday for each day. Since our 2020 has been kind of blah, I thought I would make next year a fun one. 

And the best part is that I will be sharing each day on this blog, along with my ideas to make it a fun lesson. I take full responsibility for the crazy ideas that are about to come your way- plus a few tips from the internet.

So here goes.......

January 1 - Polar Bear Swim Day

I got most of my facts from this website.

  https://polarbearsinternational.org/

For most people, polar bear swim day means that you go jump in ice cold pond. Well, we aren't that extreme so we are toning it down a little. 

    I found five facts about polar bears that sounded interesting to me and I will put them on the back of five pictures of polar bears.  Then I will talk about the weather: 

Weather -  In the High Arctic, the sun sets in October and doesn't rise again until late February. Winter temperatures can plunge to -40° or -46 C (-50 F) and stay that way for days or weeks. The average January and February temperature is -34 C (-29 F).

Our polar bear swim will consist of a spray bottle outside. Then we will come inside to make a polar bear from cotton balls and have Swedish fish. 

January 2 - National Science Fiction Day

My plan is to watch a classic science fiction movie with my kids. The vote is still out as to whether it willing be E. T. or something else. I will let y'all know.

January 3 - Chocolate Covered Cherry Day

Now you can either make your own chocolate covered cherries with this recipe

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/24698/chocolate-covered-cherries/?internalSource=hub%20recipe&referringContentType=Search&clickId=cardslot%2

We will be eating Little Debbies Chocolate Covered Cordials

January 4 - National Trivia Day

State of the Ferrell address - volume 1.75

 Well here we are, two years from my last post and a lot has happened in the past two years. 

Springville had a grand opening of their awesome new recreation center in May. We were so excited about it because it was within walking distance. I took the three kids and as we were going in the front door, Natalie closed the door to fast on her brother while he tripped on a mat. His head collided with the door and he got a gash that needed stitches. I had to fill out an incident report as the workers were trying to figure out how to help me. At the urgent care, Mat did great, I almost fainted.  Mat tripped on a mat. We never made it back to the rec center because the rest of the year got a little crazy. 

At the end of May, I was laying in bed and my heart started feeling heavy and I had trouble breathing. I had just had a friend who had experienced a heart attack and the early signs for her felt exactly the same as mine. I called Justin and he rushed home because he was afraid that I was having a heat attack.  Well it ended up being a gallbladder attack. I went to the doctor and it was confirmed that i had gallstones. Surgery was scheduled to take my gallbladder out on June 28, two days before my birthday. I was unable to pick up my children for six weeks.

We were able to go see my side of the family twice. The first time we had a family reunion in Sunriver, Oregon. We went rafting and bike riding. There was tons of laughter and tons of flamingos thanks to my wonderful sister, Camie. We stayed in the same house and cousins played with cousins. Later in the summer we went to Washington for Mindy's wedding. It was great.

The rest of 2018 was like any other year when you have two year old twins and a five year old. 

We ended the year of 2018 on a high note. On December 29, in the morning, we were all in the twins bedroom watching tv. Justin and I had just shared presents with each other because it is our anniversary. We both leave the room and then we hear Mat laughing. We go check on Mat and Libby is on the floor having a seizure. She slept for about four hours and then was fine after that. Justin and I were able to go on our anniversary date. 

2019 started with the twins turning three, and a certain little girl turning six.  Justin accepted a job with the University of Utah and it was soon decided that we would be moving up north closer to the U because traffic was crazy for Justin and it often took him about 70 minutes to get to work and back. He started working in February and we moved in May. 

We put our house on the market on Monday and by Wednesday we had an offer. We went house shopping on Friday/Saturday and found the perfect house for us in Woods Cross on Saturday afternoon. 

It was hard to say goodbye to our first house, our first friends.  

Natalie remembers her friend Emma, primary in the Dry Creek 1st ward, dance classes with Cami McFarlene, music classes with Ms. Shea, getting licorice from the bishop every week after church (Bishop Braithwraite may just be the best bishop ever).

We miss Springville and will always remember our time there.