Confession...

National Candy Corn Day 

was a major bust... 

Not just because I didn't have any on hand, 

but because I loathe it

and I'm going to be completely honest here...

I refuse to buy it. 

No one should eat it. 

I'm not going to,

Hahaha! 

So, tomorrow is

Halloween (DUH)

National Caramel Apple Day (YUM)

and

National Knock-Knock Joke Day

I'm making caramel apples 

and sharing some corny jokes, 

be prepared for my ultimate nerdyness

to shine through

and please feel free to share 

your best knock knock jokes with me! 

National Oatmeal Day

Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal... OH YEAH! 

I'm going to share something about me here, 

I'm a habitual breakfast skipper.

I'm too busy.

I'm brushing hair, changing diapers, 

making breakfast for other folks

signing forms, 

refereeing,

feeding babies, 

and making sure the pups are taken care of...

with all that and more 

breakfast for me is the last thing on my mind. 

I know, I know it's terrible to skip breakfast

and I do try to get it in, but alas... Chaos trumps food.

So, imagine how happy I was to actually get to take a few moments 

to enjoy a nice hot, filling, and delicious breakfast! 

What made me happier was my daughter joining in 

the celebration by having a bowl of oatmeal with me, 

It was a sweet moment with my precious daughter 

that while fleeting, very memorable.

I'm looking forward to more of those throughout this 365 day excursion. 

More sweet moments, more simple memories, more quiet and calm, more conversations.

A lot more. 

Okay, 

so tomorrow is

National Candy Corn Day

:-/

Guess who's not at all excited about this. 

Not. at. all. 

Guess who's back!! National Chocolate Day

Hi friends! It's me! 

Do you remember me?

I hope so. 

I'm back! 

That surgery and life was crazy. 

I'm happy to report that 

The Duke is all well

and 

we are back on track. 

National Days, 

well...

We celebrated a few while 

on hiatus, but I didn't blog about them.

I did post on Instagram, 

Oh, you're not following me there? 

You can now! Just click on the word Instagram 

and there I'll be. 

I'm also on Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter, 

We're making this blog official. Ha! 

Now, back to the real stuff.

National Days! 

I told The Duke that I should wait 

and restart on November 1st, but 

he told me I was flaking out...

I'm not a flaker-outer 

(unless it something to do with my family, like surgery),

 so here I am.

Today is 

National Chocolate Day 

and we're celebrating by 

having cups of hot chocolate 

and watching 

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

I hoped I've posted early enough for you to celebrate too. 

Tomorrow's National Days are:

National Cat Day

&

National Oatmeal Day

See ya tomorrow! 

Posts On Hold...

The Duke 

had surgery 

and 

I am taking care of my man

until he feels better. 

In case you're wondering, 

yesterday was

National Moldy Cheese Day, 

today is

National Angel Food Cake Day, 

and tomorrow will be

National Sausage Pizza Day

We are celebrating in our way, 

and I'll post an update with pictures soon. 

Keep The Duke in your prayers 

for a speedy recovery. 

Lots O'Love,

The Calender Family 

Fluff, Nuts, Pierogi?

Hey y'all! 

I'm beginning to think 

this blog is all about food. 

Every day is a holiday, 

but 

does every holiday have to be about food?

The answer?

Yes, yes it does have to be about food

because this nation loves food. 

Well, at least I know I do...

So today was 

National Fluffernutter Day 

and 

National Pierogi Day

and of course

we had both! 

Funny thing is I've never, ever bought Fluff before... It felt strange. Ha!

Nor have I ever bought Pierogies and after tasting them... I wondered, why... LOL

 So you see friends, 

we celebrated by 

boiling up some pierogies

and 

making some sandwiches

Honey Wheat Bread, White Chocolate Wonderful,

(sounds more like an adult film than peanut butter, but I digress... LOL)

and Fluff... 

Dinner of champions... Le sigh...

The sandwiches were alright, 

the kids enjoyed them, 

and I told them to savor every bite,

because I wasn't buying it again... 

I may or may not be kidding. ;-) 

Tomorrow is 

National Moldy Cheese Day

Yep. Fun stuff right there folks. 

What did I get myself into! 

Goodnight

Frappe... Rappe? No... Notsomuch...

Can't say much about today,

it was 

National Frappe Day

so I got one.

Tall Salted Caramel Frappe.Yum!

It hit the spot 

and I'm glad I got it

because baby girl was up like 

screaming

partying like it was 1999. 

So this mama

needed the caffeine.

Have you tried the Salted Caramel drinks at Starbucks?

Did/do you like them?

Alright, 

tomorrow is

National Pierogy Day

Fun, fun! 

See ya later!

Noodles, Noodles, Oodles of well...

Noodles! 

Today is National Noodle Day

and 

in true to me form, 

I waited until the very last second to find 

a recipe to make for dinner. 

Thankfully I had everything I needed on hand, 

(thanks to my newfound love of the kitchen)

and I made an easy, light 

 (can you call noodles light?)

dish with linguine and paired it with some sauteed veggies. 

Dinner done. 

Parmesan Garlic Noodles
Ingredients
1 box of linguine
1/2 stick of butter
2 tablespoons of EVOO
1/3 cup of grated parmesan
1 tablespoon of lemon juice
salt and pepper to taste
parsley finely chopped

1. Cook the noodles like the box says, drain, then set aside

2. In a large skillet melt the butter and add the EVOO

3. Add the garlic to the butter and oil, cook for about 2 minutes

4. Add noodles to butter mixture and toss until evenly coated

5. Remove from heat, add the Parmesan, lemon juice, salt, pepper, and parsley, mix well

Serve hot! 

Buon Appetito 

Tomorrow's National Day

is 

National Frappe Day

So, I can totally dig this one. 

Will you be having a Frappe with me? 

I hope so! 

Goodnight Friends

Tacos, Vodka, and Apples Oh MY!

So... 

I totally celebrated yesterday 

and today...

I just forgot to post until around 3 this morning

when I frantically 

awoke from my slumber

and 

accidentally waking my 2 month old in the process

talking about blogging. 

Dedicated much? 

I was seriously kicking myself over 

that all day. 

The Duke told me not to beat myself up, 

that it's an honest mistake 

and that 

you all would forgive me. 

Right?

Alright. 

Now to the important stuff

National Days! 

Yesterday was 

National Taco Day 

and 

National Vodka Day

 

So, since it was a beautiful fall day out 

we took to the streets to see what our local Fringe Festival

was all about, and while there Vodka was celebrated.  

The Duke's vodka mix poured by a bartender at a fabulous little restaurant in our town.

 At home, tacos were on the menu, and

the whole family pitched in to cook dinner.

It turned out great! 

TACOS!!! Delicioso!

This dinner has made me a big fan 

of tacos and I look forward to implementing 

"Taco Tuesday" once or twice a month!

Okay, let's move on to today!

Today was 

National Apple Betty Day. 

I'm going to be honest. I'd never 

heard of Apple Betty until today,

but I'm really happy that today was that day. 

Where we live it was super cold today, 

so I just wanted to do nothing but 

hang out at home and snuggle, 

but since we have athletes in the house 

I spent the day at their games outside. 

 So let me just say that I was extremely happy to 

bake tonight. 

This went in my oven. Ingredients: 4 apples (peeled and cored), 3/4 cup of flour, 1 cup of sugar, 1 stick of softened butter, 1/4 cups of orange juice, 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg

This came out of my oven! Mmmmmm!

 Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 375

2.  Add the peeled and cored apples to a buttered pie dish and pour the OJ on top. Mix well and set aside. 

3. . Combine the rest of the ingredients in a bowl and mix until crumbly. 

4. Sprinkle the mixture on top of the apples and make sure to cover it good (it's not a pie, but that crust is the bomb.com, you'll love it!)

5. Put it in the oven for 45 minutes. 

After you take it out 

bowl it up and serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or cool whip! 

Enjoy! 

Tomorrow is 

National Noodle Day

I'm going to have fun with that one. 

See ya then! 

Smiling Techies...

Today was 

National Techies Day

and 

World Smile Day...

To celebrate I didn't put my phone down 

I had my face glued to it, 

and well... I smiled at people... 

I even laughed with strangers. 

I think I made a few new friends. 

Now, because my eyes hurt from looking at my 

screen all day, I'm going to rest them up

and rest myself for tomorrow's festivities

because the following are the National Day's...

National Taco Day

and

National Vodka Day

 Hooray!

Now, who's celebrating with me?! 

LOL 

Fry All The Scallops

This is what I was saying 

quite loudly at the fish market today

and I'm pretty sure 

they thought I was all kinds of cray cray, 

but I didn't care.

Today is
National Fried Scallops Day

&

I was literally floating on cloud 9 because

one of my after-school mom friends 

informed me that there was 

an amazing little local seafood market 

that not only had scallops (fresh from the area),

but also FRIED THEM FOR YOU!!!!! 

(cue sound of music type spinning)

She gave me life with that statement. 

That meant I didn't have to turn my stove on 

AT ALL today! 

Can I get a halleluiah?

I mean, don't get me wrong,
I love cooking, but
this mama is tired today y'all!
Tired with a capital T!

Besides, this seafood market made the
prettiest fried scallops that I have ever seen

Pretty, pretty scallops

We paired them with sweet potato fries
and called it a day.
Now... at 11:30 PM
I'm calling it a night.

Oh... Okay... so here's the deal with the recipe.
My friend read the blog
and
she made me promise not to post the recipe until
I make it, with pictures
because she wants me to be sure that it's as amazing as I said,
and I'm quoting her...
"I want the world to like it. I don't want to be an EH recipe"
So, I gave her my word that I will make the cookies
and post the recipe with pictures... Stay tuned.

Alright
Tomorrow's National Days are
National Techies Day (WOOT!)
World Smile Day

So if you're out and about,
give someone a smile and
while you're at it wave an electronic device at them...
or maybe not... LOL
Goodnight Friends!

L. 

Chocolate Chips... Chocolate Chip Cookies

Today was 

National Homemade Cookie Day

and I chose 

what seemed like at the time 

a fairly easy cookie to make...

and it was... 

However. 

Somewhere 

between this morning 

and 

OH CRAP 

I have to go to the grocer, 

life happened. 

We got busy

and 

time went by...

before I knew it, 

it was time to pick up the kids from the school, 

and high tail it to the nearest store 

for some essentials in cookie making

and I still forgot some things. 

Did I mention, 

I planned on making 

80 Apple Dumplings 

for Bible study tomorrow?

No.. Didn't mention it? 

Well I did

and in between taking out the 

the dumplings 

and putting in cookies

and taking out cookies

putting in more dumplings 

I forgot I had to write this post! 

LOL... So here it is. 

11:52 PM 

and I'm doing it. 

I'm not missing a day 

because I lost track of time yet again 

or because I over-extended myself... yet again. 

I'm dedicated to this y'all. 

DEDICATED!

Alright, 

the real reason you showed up... 

Cookies! 

I tried a new recipe from a baking blog

 I found

and they turned out just okay... 

Not going to post the recipe because they were just eh... 

But... 

I will post the recipe that I would have used

from a family friend tomorrow... 

because those would have turned out 

amazefest USA. 

Yeah... 

I totally just wrote that. 

It's 11:57 PM and I'm exhausted. 

LOL, cut me some slack. 

Now... 

Tomorrow's National Days 

are

National Fried (Pan-Seared in my house, LOL) Scallops Day

National Fire Dog Day

Check back in to see how we celebrate! 

Goodnight!