Today is the Twelfth Day of Christmas.  It is also Twelfth Night, the night before Epiphany.  According to Wikipedia: Twelfth Night or Epiphany Eve is a festival in some branches of Christianity marking the coming of the Epiphany, concluding the Twelve Days of Christmas, and is defined by the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary as “the [...]

Today is the Eleventh Day of Christmas.  It is also my cousin Katie’s birthday.  Happy birthday, Katie! This is also my 100th blog post. Congratulations to me! Jeremy says, “But there are only 77 comments.  Y’all need to work harder!”  I did 100 posts in 58 weeks.  Hmm…maybe I need to work harder too.  I [...]

Today is the Tenth Day of Christmas.  Today is my last day of “vacation.”  I go back to work tomorrow.  Today Jeremy and I went to our friends from church’s house.  They have two small boys.  Mark is seven and Daniel is three.  It was a lot of fun playing with the children. Here’s today’s [...]

Today is the Ninth Day of Christmas.  I remember as a kid January 2nd was often the day we returned to school after Christmas break.  At least if it was at the beginning of the week–maybe not on a Friday–I can’t remember that exactly.  Did any kids go back to school today? I never liked [...]

Today is the Eighth Day of Christmas.  It is also New Year’s Day. I hope you’ve been having a wonderful start to this new year. As mentioned, it is the Eighth Day of Christmas.  We are still in the period of time known as Christmastide.  And so it is still the holidays, and I will [...]

Today is the Seventh Day of Christmas.  It is also New Year’s Eve. I will be talking about New Year’s Eve on another post.  So here I’ll do the continuation of the song, just to continue the tradition.  After all, you wouldn’t want me to quit halfway through, would you? I think it’s interesting that [...]

Today is the Sixth Day of Christmas.  And it is also the day before the end of the year.  Although for some it is the second day of the year.  My husband, Jeremy, informed me that yesterday was the start of the Muslim New Year.  It is year 1430 AH (anno Hegirae:  “in the year [...]

Today is the Fifth Day of Christmas.  I’m going to do a short post because I just got home from work, it’s 2127 (9:27 p.m. for you civilians), and I have to get up at 0400 (4:00 a.m.), so I can be at work at 0500 (5:00 a.m.).  In other words it’s late, the night [...]

Greetings! Today is the Fourth Day of Christmas.  According to Wikipedia, it is also Childermas or the Feast of the Innocents.  The article I linked to says it is in commemoration of the Massacre of the Innocents which was when Herod killed all the boy children two years and under in Bethlehem after the Magi [...]

Today is the Third Day of Christmas.  It is also the Feast of St. Stephen or St. Stephen’s Day according to the Eastern Church.  But the Western Church celebrates it on December 26, which was yesterday.  However, yesterday I was blogging about Boxing Day, which is a holiday that people I know celebrate.  I don’t [...]