Everyone will be looking forward to this long weekend coming up to basically kiss the summer adieu and to welcome in another school year.
Teachers, parents and kids will all probably be a little apprehensive as to how the year will start out still undergoing another strain of a COVID variant. Here’s hoping and praying that all will go well and all will be well for this school year, trusting that everyone is working toward the good of all.
This past COVID season has been hard on the kids, and families in general, enduring very little socialization and undergoing isolation issues leading further to possibly impairing mental-wellness until this past summer when restrictions opened up where kids could be kids, at least for a little while. For most school age kids, being with friends and playing sports is the be-all-end-all, with some learning thrown in.
We have two grandsons embarking on their school years entering Kindergarten this year. Before you know it, from elementary school to high school and onward to where their life goals lead them. It’s going to be an exciting journey for sure.
I presume most people know that the Labour Day holiday which falls on the first Monday of September originally gave workers the chance to campaign for better working conditions or pay.
We’ve come a long way, baby, but where we are going, who knows?
In 2021, society may again have to start thinking hard and long about what track the train is going down into the future. With a federal election imminent, it would be advantageous for eligible voters to keep informed and vote their conscience with so many issues pending.
And on a lighter vein, here are some quirky weird days set aside nationally in September to take some of the edge off…
With fall in the air and hibernation months pending, September gives us a reason to eat Macadamia nuts, cheese pizza, tv dinners, string-cheese, drink coffee and chew gum while remembering to make our beds, having a Teddy Bear Picnic, playing video games or playing with play-doh. For beer drinkers, you can also celebrate crushing a can day, too, 'cause for beer drinkers, everyday is National Drink a Beer Day!
- September 4: National Macadamia Nut Day
- September 5: National Cheese Pizza Day
- September 9: National Teddy Bear Day
- September 10: National TV Dinner Day
- September 11: National Make Your Bed Day
- September 12: National Video Games Day
- September 16: National Play-Doh Day
- September 20:National String Cheese Day
- September 27: National Crush a Can Day
- September 29: National Coffee Day
- September 30: National Chewing Gum Day
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