Fun Fact Friday - Yuletide
The Yule Log During the Georgian era (when the King's George I-IV reigned over England, 1740-1830) Christmas began to be more lavishly celebrated in England. Beginning on St. Nicholas Day (December 6), the Christmas or Yultide would last through Twelfth Night on January 6. Christmas Eve was the day when most household decorating took place - it was actually considered…
Mother's Day
This Sunday is Mother's Day, a day for us to sit back and reflect on what terrors we were as children and then call our own mothers and apologize profusely for our behavior back then. :) Some believe the origins of Mother’s Day lie with Mothering Sunday, a tradition from the 16th century where individuals would return to their “mother…
Derby Day
The greatest two minutes in sports™. The run for the roses. The sport of kings. Tomorrow is the first Saturday in May. That can mean only one thing: Kentucky Derby Day. Ladies in fancy hats sipping mint juleps rub shoulder to shoulder with betting men, all while watching to see which of the twenty three-year-old horses run the fastest 1¼…