Celebrate little holidays

Seize opportunities for feeling festive, wherever you find them

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
tip is to celebrate little holidays in general. It's better
to embrace any opportunity for festivity rather than letting these

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moments just pass us by. So a great many years
ago one of our babysitters introduced my children to the
concept of the Saint Patrick's Day Leprechaun. And I don't
just mean in a mythical sense or drawing him in
coloring books or something. They learned that as part of
Saint Patrick's Day celebrations, one could build a trap to

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catch a leprechaun, and if the leprechaun escaped, he'd probably
leave them presents. Now, I have to say I was
not a big fan of yet another magical creature holiday.
We get visits from the Easter Bunny and the Tooth
Fairy and Santa Claus already, so I wasn't sure we
really needed to be blessed with yet another visit. But

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the kids really enjoyed it, and so over the years
I've gotten a bit more into the idea of not
being a Saint Patrick's Day scrooge. But even without visits
from magical creatures, there are lots of ways to celebrate
a minor holiday. Making fun shaped or colored pancakes is

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a good one. It's pretty easy to make pancake batter
red for Valentine's Day and make heart shaped pancakes, or
to color the batter green and make shamrock shaped pancakes
for Saint Patrick's Day. Everyone likes the whimsy of holiday
themed candy or wearing the appropriate color. If the holiday
is associated with a particular country or culture, it might

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be possible to eat the cuisine from that culture for dinner.
If you've got kids, you might check out a book
from the library that's based on that holiday and read
this as a bedtime story. None of this is particularly difficult,
but it does involve recognizing that the holiday is coming up.

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It means noting it on the calendar and making a
few preparations. So that is work. But then when you
do that, the day feels a little more memorable. So
much of life just disappears into the past. But a
day when you all wear green sweaters and have shamrock

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pancakes and check to see if the leprechaun escape from
the special trap you built and then enjoy Irish food
for dinner is just going to be a little more memorable.
So why not celebrate a few little holidays. You can
look through your calendar and see what appeals to you,
or it could be a regularly occurring occasion like the

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full moon. But there's nothing wrong with putting a little
more festivity into life. Little adventures shake things up and
that is a good thing. In the meantime, This is Laura.
Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of

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our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've
got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach me at
Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast is a

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