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November Random Holidays

October 24, 2019 2 Comments

It’s time to start planning your November Calendar, and I have some inspiration for adding November Random Holidays to your schedule.

I know you’re with me on this – how can it be nearly November already? I’m starting to believe the conspiracy theory that time is moving faster. Perhaps it’s because I’m getting older, and so each passing day is just a smaller part of my overall life.

In an effort to slow time down or at least return it to normal speed, I make an effort to celebrate little things. It’s possible to make memories every day, even if it’s not a significant national holiday or a huge life event.

You’re Invited to Celebrate

Wouldn’t you want more reasons to celebrate? Wouldn’t your kids or work-family pause for just a moment, a significant moment to enjoy a doughnut? (By the way, National Doughnut Day is November the 5th!)

I invite you to pursue the small things, the seemingly insignificant events. Because when you look back on your week, month, or even year, it will be these moments that create a special place in your heart. These pinpoints of joy that stand out among the blurred days. Even if you don’t like any of my chosen random holidays, you can select some days that you prefer.

Random Holidays Challenge - Find Reasons to Add Joy to Your Life | ChocolateMusings.com #randomholidays #challenge #findjoy

Random Holidays – Google Calendar

After celebrating different holidays for over a year, I decided to create a Google Calendar to see all the holidays I’d love to celebrate. It makes it easy to share creations, words, and ideas on social media and with friends and family. The best part about Google calendars is that you can toggle them on and off when you don’t want to see them.

If you click on the calendar item, it has a link to the source & relevant hashtags! I’m always evolving this calendar – and I will add calendar days or corrections all the time.

Tip: The calendar will show the current month, you can navigate to the month of your choice by using the arrows or dropdown.

If you want to add my calendar to your Google calendar:

  • Go to your Google calendars and click the + next to other calendars
  • Choose ‘add other calendars.’
  • Then click Subscribe to Calendar
  • After that, paste the text below in the “add calendar.”
  • Toggle the schedule on and off when you want to access it – that’s what I do.

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I won’t list all the random holidays, but just the ones that work with ChocolateMusings.com – so, of course, you’ll see a lot of food, art, creativity & some miscellaneous holidays are thrown in as well.

More Random Holidays

Click the picture below or go here to find the Random Holiday Archives.

Find your reason to celebrate today - Random Holidays Challenge | ChocolateMusings.com #randomholidays #findjoy #daytoday

November Random Holidays on the Chocolate Musings Calendar

After adding appointments and scheduled items to my calendar, I add the Random Holidays. Even though they are small moments, my family looks forward to them. I find that my kids look through my calendar just to see the random holidays and then share it with their friends. November’s Random Holidays don’t disappoint.

Month-Long Celebrations

Pick a day or multiple days for these November celebrations!

  • Gratitude Month
  • Peanut Butter Lovers Month
  • National Novel Writing Month #NaNoWriMo

November Random Holidays – Fun Celebrations

  • 1st – National Author’s Day
  • 2nd – Look for Circles Day (Check out my Circle-related posts here! I love to use circles in my bullet journal. In fact, here’s a post on creating circles in your bullet journal)
  • 2nd – Ohio Day
  • 5th – National Love Your Red Hair Day – since we have many red-heads in my family, we celebrate their lack of pigment this day!
  • 9th – Go to an Art Museum Day
  • 9th – Louisiana Day
  • 10th – Forget-me-not Day
  • 11th – Veteran’s Day (USA)
  • 13th – World Kindness Day

Everyone should celebrate World Kindness Day every day! Without a doubt, the world be a better place if we gave the benefit of the doubt and treated everyone just a little better? I know I could improve, so I’ll start with one day and take it a step at a time.

  • 15th – Clean Out Your Fridge Day – clearly excellent preparation for the coming food holiday! Though I’d probably need to do it again before Thanksgiving.
  • 16th – National Button Day – my mom used to have a big box of buttons that I would string together even though I don’t have a button box, I plan on sharing this memory with my family. Did you have a button box as a kid?
  • 16th – Indiana Day
  • 18th – Mickey Mouse Birthday
  • 18th – National Princess Day
  • 19th – National Play Monopoly Day
  • 30th – National Mason Jar Day
  • 30th – Mississippi Day

State Holidays

In celebration of the state’s statehood birthday, each month, the honored state will be on sale! I created 8 variations for each state, and they make lovely wall displays. Print it out, and frame it, and show it off!

  • State Outline - Indiana
    State Outline – Indiana
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  • State Outline - Louisiana
    State Outline – Louisiana
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  • State Outline - Mississippi
    State Outline – Mississippi
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  • State Outline - Ohio
    State Outline – Ohio
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Food-Related Celebrations

Despite having a busy schedule, it’s easy for me to add a treat or plan a meal around a random holiday, my kids love it, and it’s effortless to add those moments of joy I seek in our lives.

  • 3rd – National Sandwich Day – since sandwiches are my husband’s favorite food, he’s all too happy to celebrate this holiday multiple times in the month!
  • 4th – National Candy Day – for this holiday, I think we will rid ourselves of all the Halloween candy sticking around our house
  • 5th – National Doughnut Day
  • 10th – National Vanilla Cupcake Day
  • 11th – National Sundae Day – YUM
  • 12th – National French Dip Day – one of my favorite sandwiches
  • 14th – National Pickle Day – my kids LOVE pickles
  • 16th – National Fast Food Day – this is a day I know we can celebrate, how about you?
  • 17th – National Baklava Day – my boss makes THE Best Baklava, I’ll have to convince her to celebrate this holiday with me.
  • 19th – National Carbonated Beverage Day – My poison of choice is Diet Dr. Pepper. What’s yours?
  • 20th – National Peanut Butter Fudge Day – YUM!
  • 21st – National Gingerbread Cookie Day – check out the National Day calendar for this one, they list out the other National Cookie Day Celebrations.
  • 23rd – National Cashew Day
  • 25th – National Parfait Day
  • 26th – National Cake Day
  • 28th – National French Toast Day

Whew! I didn’t even include all the food days!

Random Holiday Links:

Choose The Holidays Right for You

What if you don’t like the holidays I choose? Below are links to the other random holiday sites I found – pick your favorites and celebrate the ones that resonate with you! It’s about breaking out of the monotony and creating your happiness.

Find more to celebrate – I compiled my random holidays from the websites below. There are so many holidays to enjoy! If you find a day you’d like me to feature – leave me a note below!

  • Nationaldaycalendar.com
  • Nationaltoday.com
  • daysoftheyear.com
  • checkiday.com
  • heywhatday.com
  • Timeanddate.com
  • holidayinsights.com
  • wildcalendar.com
  • thereisadayforthat.com

Pick and Choose

You don’t have to celebrate them all, but choose a few dates that you pause the rush of life and take a moment to yourself or as a family to create lasting memories. That’s the point of these random holidays for me, and I hope you gain the sense of what it could mean for you.

Among the November Random Holidays, this month is #nationalgratitudemonth, and I fully intend on keeping a one-line or one-word gratitude journal for the month. Is that something you’d like to do, too?

What other days do you think you’ll add to your calendar? Hint: if the date doesn’t fit for you – there’s no hard rule stating you can’t celebrate another day. Use a weekend or a free weeknight to create your memories.

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Random Holidays – Find Reasons to Add Joy to Your Life

March 28, 2019 4 Comments

Find your reason to celebrate today - Random Holidays Challenge | ChocolateMusings.com #randomholidays #findjoy #daytoday

Random Holidays Challenge – Find Reasons to Celebrate and Add Joy

Finding joy in everyday life is difficult, I know! Some weeks I look back and wonder what I’ve done with my life. Sometimes the days blend together and I can’t remember anything unique for the week. But then a couple of years ago, I discovered random holidays and started ‘celebrating’ some of the days.

Since then, my family has grown to love random holidays. They look forward to finding joy in small ways. Some holidays are downright silly; others might become your next family tradition. For instance, as a family, we celebrated International ice cream for breakfast day. My kids thought it was the best day ever. I don’t care that it’s obscure or unknown, and neither did my kids. To celebrate Sloppy Joe Day, guess what we had for dinner? If you said cereal you’d be wrong.

Did you know that each state in the United States has its own ‘national day’? Neither did I! After creating my state outlines; I wanted to celebrate each state’s holiday by putting together an armchair travel notebook and highlight the places I’d like to see within each state.

Don't Wait for Permission - Find the Joy| ChocolateMusings.com #randomholidays #challenge #findjoy

Why a Challenge?

I’m always looking for more reasons to celebrate. So why not create a challenge highlighting random holidays of the month and celebrate with you? Because I think inspiration comes from everywhere and comes from living everyday life! So why not add some fun to the every day of life? Don’t wait for permission, go and live!

Random Holidays Challenge - Find Reasons to Add Joy to Your Life | ChocolateMusings.com #randomholidays #challenge #findjoy

Here are the rules:

  • Choose a holiday (or a few!) featured here (or another that you found) and celebrate it in some way.
  • Create something inspired by the holiday, celebrate with your family, blog about the holiday, do something to celebrate.
  • Post your celebration and tag me on social media (@ChocolateMusingsCreates) instagram.com/chocolatemusingscreates. If you create a blog post – tag me on Pinterest (pinterest.com/chocolatemusings). I’ll be sure to share it! Use the hashtag #randomlycelebrated and #ChocolateMusingsCelebrates

The point is to start adding little pockets of fun to your weeks and days so when you look back, there’s something other than getting up, work, driving home, and bits of Netflix on constant repeat.

I’d love to share a few of your creations on my channels!

Create your own Joy | ChocolateMusings.com #randomholidays #challenge #findjoy

Ideas for creating:

  • Letter the name of the holiday
  • Write it in funky fonts
  • Take a picture
  • Doodle
  • Paint
  • Blog post
  • Create a planner spread
  • Create a color palette inspired by the holiday
  • What imaginary character or Disney Princess would most likely celebrate this holiday?
  • What colors should we choose for this holiday?
  • Make a favorite dish or create a new recipe in honor of the day.
  • If the holiday had a mascot, what would it be?
  • Don’t let my ideas limit you. Find something that inspires you, and create!

If you don’t create anything – spend the time with your family or friends! It’s all about creating a better, more fulfilling life. I believe these silly, random holidays help add a little smile to your face and a bit more laughter to your days. Choose to add joy to your life.

Choose The Holidays Right for You

What if you don’t like the holidays I choose? Below you will find links to the other random holiday sites I found – pick your favorites and celebrate ones that resonate with you! It’s about breaking out of the monotony and creating your happiness.

Check out My Shop for state outline printables & my RedBubble account to find fun merchandise with all the state outlines.

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Random Holiday Links:

Choose The Holidays Right for You

What if you don’t like the holidays I choose? Below are links to the other random holiday sites I found – pick your favorites and celebrate the ones that resonate with you! It’s about breaking out of the monotony and creating your happiness.

Find more to celebrate – I compiled my random holidays from the websites below. There are so many holidays to enjoy! If you find a day you’d like me to feature – leave me a note below!

  • Nationaldaycalendar.com
  • Nationaltoday.com
  • daysoftheyear.com
  • checkiday.com
  • heywhatday.com
  • Timeanddate.com
  • holidayinsights.com
  • wildcalendar.com
  • thereisadayforthat.com

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Hi! I'm Tricia, the creative behind ChocolateMusings.com, I know how it feels to lose your inner muse. After years of darkness (which I call the dark ages of my life), I found my inner muse hiding in the forgotten corners of my soul, I vowed never to lose sight of her again.

Bullet journaling helped reignite the passion for art and living life again while organizing my days. I also discovered modern calligraphy and watercolor. Since then, my use of the bullet journal system has evlolved and I call it 'creative planning'. Here on the blog, I show you how to use your planner to ignite your inner muse and explore creativity and art while staying beautifully organized and living a joyful life.

I invite you to grab some good chocolate and dive into my musings. Let’s ignite your inner muse.

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