The Fourth of July is always a big deal in the Zohner household, and to be honest, why wouldn’t it be? After all, I come from a long line of rednecks (my grandma used to have a TV that worked on top of her TV that didn’t). The Fourth of July is the perfect redneck holiday! Not only do we get to celebrate the birth of our nation but we get to blow stuff up and cook meat on fire. Who could ask for more?
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07
January
…and I couldn’t care less. I have never understood the fascination that people have with turning the page on a calendar. Well, I can understand it if they have a really cool calendar like Dilbert or The Art of Star Wars. Still though, even the presence of a cool calendar doesn’t excuse the “festivities” that take place with the coming of a new year. Standing outside in the cold and counting backwards from ten just doesn’t appeal to me.
The only year that I have looked forward to is 2000 and that was because I wanted to see if the predicted horrors of Y2K would actually happen. Obviously they didn’t which was a great disappointment to many survivalists that had stocked up on toilet paper and Mountain Dew but it was nice to know that my VCR still flashed “12:00″ without missing a beat.
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31
December
I was talking with a friend at church the other day and he likened the Christmas season to a car accident. Despite how much preparation goes into getting ready for everything, it still manages to sneak up and leave everyone wondering what it was that just hit. Given how the past month has gone, I felt that this was a very appropriate analogy. Now that things have started to settle down, I decided that I finally better sit down and try and recap our activities over the past few weeks.
Category: Family, Holidays, Holly, School
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19
November
Over the past few days, there have been an uncanny amount of stories in the news regarding pirates. No, not the kind that download music from file-sharing sites. Real pirates. The kind with wooden legs and parrots that poop on their shoulders. As far as I can tell though, these particular pirates aren’t drinking rum and hooking up with wenches in the Caribbean, they’re hanging out in the waters off of Africa taking people hostage and demanding large ransoms.
For those who haven’t been following the news, let me catch you up to speed. Basically some Somali pirates took over a Saudi supertanker. Another band of pirates have hijacked a Thai fishing boat. And a yet different band of hook-handed thugs had their ship sunk by India’s navy in the Gulf of Aden. (I blame their failure on the fact that hooks don’t come with opposable thumbs.)
Category: Current Events
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20
October
If you were to walk into any store these days, you would probably think that the next holiday to be celebrated was Christmas. Contrary to retailer belief though, we actually have two holidays, including one pretty major one, between now and Christmas.
In just a few short weeks, we will celebrate the end of the harvest by stuffing our faces. This holiday is know as Hallowe’en or, if you’re not into traditional spellings, Halloween. Ironically, we will not be partaking of the fruits of said harvest but will be gorging ourselves on sugary confections originating in Hershey, Pennsylvania and McLean, Virginia (home of M&M’s).
On Saturday, our ward held their annual trunk or treat. This is a safe environment where neighborhood kids can run around a parking lot and get candy from people sitting in and around their vehicles. Normally, I try to encourage my kids to not take candy from people that are sitting in their car but for this, I made an exception. We have about 4.3 million kids living within our ward boundaries so, as you can probably imagine, there were a lot of kids running around in costumes.
Category: Alex, Emma, Hannah
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04
July
As a kid, whenever anybody would ask me what my favorite holiday was, the answer was obviously Christmas. After all, what kid doesn’t like Christmas? Free toys, lots of candy stuffed into clothing designed for feet, and did I mention free toys?
Now that I’m a bit older, I still love Christmas (I think it’s the free toys thing), but I’ve developed a deep appreciation for other holidays. Thanksgiving is awesome but the Fourth of July holds a special place in my heart. There’s something about seeing an American flag flying as a wing of F-16s fly overhead that makes me extremely grateful to live in this wonderful country. Add to the the fact that we’ve developed some really fun family traditions, and you have a day that we all look forward to each year.
02
January
I’m not big on the New Year’s holiday. I never have been. Celebrating arbitrary calendar events has never really been my thing. That being said, I wanted to wish all of our readers a healthy and happy new year full of much success.
As for your resolutions, hopefully they won’t be forgotten about within the first two weeks. If they survive through the month, consider yourself very successful.
Category: Holidays
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25
December
Well, the presents are open and the kids are playing with new toys. I thought that I’d take a minute as I rip Hannah Montana and High School Musical onto our computer for Emma and wish everybody a very happy Christmas.
The kids woke up bright and early today. Too early in fact; it was about 6:00 am. We opened presents and everybody seems pretty pleased with their haul. It was fun to see the kids so excited. We tried to take turns opening presents but things eventually broke down into chaos as the kids got tired of waiting to see what everybody else got before they could open more. Despite the mess, it was a lot of fun.
There were a lot of DVDs given today. I can’t wait to watch my copy of Weird Al Live. I’ll be fighting for the DVD player though with the kids. It seems like we have about 500 movies to watch now. It’s gonna be a busy week.
20
December
I decided to throw a new poll up on the site for your voting enjoyment. For those who care, more of our readers like blue cheese than those who don’t.
This time, I’m asking if you’ve got your Christmas shopping done. For the record, we do. I think. I don’t plan on entering a store with the intent of buying presents until next year. Things may change but I think that we’re done. Now vote.
Is you Christmas shopping done?
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17
December
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