18th February, 2008
A Boring Family Day
So, we’ve now joined Alberta, Saskatchewan and possibly Manitoba, and have been introduced to a new holiday in Ontario. As you can tell from the above title, we now welcome ‘Family Day’. It occurs on the third monday in February (one of 9 we get each year)!
To be honest, I really don’t understand the concept of this holiday. I think it may be another way for the government to get the day off, and still get paid. This doesn’t mean that I don’t think it’s a great idea, because it does give parents and children the opportunity to spend some quality time together and for some, get to know one another a little more.
Whatever you choose to do on Family Day, here are some suggestions that I’ve gotten from blogTO.
If you happen to like your family (and they like you):
- Make hot chocolate and play board games. Clue and Monopoly come to mind. And Charades.
- Watch Family Ties, Swiss Family Robinson, and other retro sitcoms on DVD.
- Tell the same stories that come up at every family-oriented holiday.
- Make up an elaborate meal, but not turkey. I nominate pizza. Each family member decorates and eats a section of the pie.
- Go through old photo albums and reminisce about the good times you’ve had in the past.
- Build a snowman together, or better yet a snowfamily that mirrors your own family.
If you don’t like your family, don’t have one, or have an odd one:
- Head down to Buffalo to take advantage of the most excellent President’s Day sales.
- Locate and hang out with a much better family.
- Walk around the neighbourhood looking like a sad puppy and see how many families invite you in. Sniffling and whimpering helps.
- Convince the family to do a polar bear dip in Lake Ontario. Count down from ten, run as a group, and bail just before you hit the water. Laugh at them as they shiver with hypothermia.
- Do what they’ve been doing out in the prairies provinces since Family Day began there in 1990 - make out.
- In the cover of darkness, hunt down and destroy snowfamilies.
Anyways, that’s it for me. Not a whole lot today. I just wanted to rant on this whole ‘Family Day’ event that has got the whole province under it’s spell.
Nighty Night
Posted at 3:39 pm in Holiday, Rambling |