April…the word just oozes spring time, doesn’t it? Soft spring rain waking up the sleeping bulbs – they yawn and reach for the sun and invite us over for a swim in the deep end of color and fragrance…ahhh.
Well, wake up and smell the fresh Florida tomatoes, my holiday-loving friends! Anyone can stop and smell the hyacinths, you know. It takes one with a deeply curious and playful demeanor to observe alcohol and autism, appreciate couples, engage in some holy humor, listen to some Dixieland jazz, start a garden, fly a kite, eat pecans, and prevent animal cruelty all while dressed in a tweed tartan plaid Southern Belle costume visiting the School Library Media Center for a lesson on the Pony Express! Welcome to the month of April…it’s not just for fools anymore…
Disclaimer: The comments in italics are mine and mine alone and do not represent the opinions, thoughts, or musings of any other person, group or entity. There is no harm or disparagement intended.
April flower: Daisy or Sweet Pea
Birthstone: Diamond
Full Moon: April 9 at 10:56am EST
New Moon: April 24 at 11:23pm EST
April is the month for…
African American Women’s Fitness Month
Alcohol Awareness Month I’m aware that I don’t drink enough…
Amateur Radio Month
Autism Awareness Month
Cancer Control Month there’s cancer control?
Car Care Month
Celebrate Diversity Month
Child Abuse Prevention Month how about EVERY month, y’all…
(International) Cesarean Awareness Month
Couple Appreciation Month I appreciate restraint in public…
Emotional Overeating Month
Financial Literacy Month
Fresh Florida Tomatoes Month don’t emotionally overeat them
Global Child Nutrition Month
Grange Month
Holy Humor Month John, Paul, and Peter walk into a bar…
Home Improvement Time (through Sept. 30)
Informed Women Month
International Customer Loyalty Month
International Pet First Aid Awareness Month
International Twit Award Month all hail Monty Python!
IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) Month
Jazz Appreciation Month
Keep America Beautiful Month
Month of the Young Child gotta love ‘em!
Month of the Military Child
National Child Abuse Prevention Month
National Card and Letter Writing Month
National Decorating Month take down the snowman flag!
National DNA & Genomics & Stem Cell Education & Awareness Month
National Donate Life Month sign your donor card!
National Garden Month
National Humor Month
National Kite Month like Bert in Mary Poppins!
National Knuckles Down Month
National Landscape Architecture Month
National Occupational Therapy Month
National Parkinson’s Awareness Month
National Pecan Month plant a tree & have plenty of nuts!
National Poetry Month
National Sexual Assault Awareness Month
National Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) Education & Awareness Month
National Youth Sports Safety Month
Pharmacists War on Diabetes Month
Physical Wellness Month
Prevent Lyme in Dogs Month check them for ticks!
Prevention of Animal Cruelty be kind when you check them for ticks!
Rosacea Awareness Month
School Library Media Month all hail School Librarians!
Straw Hat Month
Southern Belles Month frankly, my dear…
Women’s Eye Health & Safety Month
Workplace Conflict Awareness Month if you’ve got one you’re aware!
World Habitat Awareness Month
International School Spirit Season (4/30-12/26)
April’s special weeks…
4/1-7 International Pooper-Scooper Week hmmm
Laugh at Work Week
Golden Rule Week do unto others…
Medication Safety Week
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week
4/3-5 Alcohol-Free Weekend oh rats! it’s spring Break, too!
4/4-10 Hate Week who came up with this brilliant idea???
4/5-11 Holy Week odd coincidence…
National Blue Ribbon Week
National Week of the Ocean
National Women’s Nutrition Week
Explore Your Career Options especially if you’re a teacher…
4/6-12 National Networking Week explore those options…
4/7-11 National Public Health Week
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week
4/9-16 Pesach or Passover
4/12-18 National Environmental Week
National Library Week hug a librarian!
National Personal Training Week
National Wildlife Week but not in the library…
Pan American Week
Young People’s Poetry Week
4/13-19 Egg Salad Week make sure they’ve been refrigerated!
National Crime Victims Rights Week
4/17-19 Trivia Days who wants to play a game of Jeopardy?!
4/14-18 National Occupational Health Nursing Week
4/18-26 National Wildlife Week I thought that was last week…
4/19-24 Customer Awareness Week
Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives in the Line of Duty Week there’s no way to properly thank them…
4/19-25 Administrative Professionals Week
Coin Week jingle, jingle, jingle
National Karaoke Week sing badly!
National Inspirational News Week
National Park Week do karaoke in the park!
National Playground Safety Week
National Volunteer Week
Sky Awareness Week why? is it falling?
Week of the Young Child
WOC Nurse Week
4/20-25 Fish Fry Week
4/20-26 Cowboy Poetry Week horse, coarse, force…
National Paperboard Packaging Week
National Window Safety Week
National Whistler’s Week watch the Andy Griffith show!
Turn Off TV Week okay, maybe not…
4/24-26 National Dream Hotline what’s the number?
4/24-30 National Scoop the Poop Week is this related to pooper-scooper week?
4/25-27 Starman Days
4/25-5/4 National Dance Week scoop the poop first!
4/27-5/3 Safe Kids Week
Astronomy Week
National Volunteer Week
Days to celebrate in April…
4/1 April Fools or All Fools Day
Boomer Bonus Days
Lupus Alert Day
National Fun Day
National Day of Hope I hope you have a fun day…
National Fun at Work Day
Paraprofessional Appreciation Day
Poetry & the Creative Mind Day
Sorry Charlie Day
St. Stupid Day who canonized someone named Stupid?
US Air Force Academy Day
Bulgaria: St. Lazarus’ Day
Iran: Islamic Republic Day
4/2 International Children’s Book Day READ!
Reconciliation Day
4/3 Pony Express Day giddyap!
Tweed Day
Hospital Admitting Clerks Day
4/4 International Day for Mine Awareness & Assistance in Mine Action
Victims of Violence Wholly Day
World Rat Day ummm…why?
National Love our Children Day
Tangible Karma Day what is intangible karma?
4/5 Palm Sunday
4/6 Drowsy Drive Awareness Day wake up, people!
Tartan Day
Teflon Day does Teflon come in plaid?
4/7 Metric System Day
No Housework Day hmpf! just one day?
World Health Day
Rwanda: Genocide Remembrance Day
4/8 Buddha Day smile serenely…
4/9 National Alcohol Screening Day
National Cherish an Antique Day item not person…
National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day
Passover begins (through April 16th)
Philippines: Araw Ng Kagitingan
Tunisia: Martyrs’ Day
Winston Churchill Day
4/10 ASPCA Day spay, neuter, spay, neuter, spay, neuter
Commodore Perry Day
Good Friday
National D.A.R.E. Day
National Sibling Day so be good, y’all…
Salvation Army Founder’s Day
4/11 Barbershop Quartet Day Sweet Adeleine…
International “Louie Louie” Day how would a Barbershop Quartet do it?
World Parkinson’s Disease Day
Baby Massage Day awww…
4/12 Easter oh, happy day!
Licorice Day
Walk on Your Wild Side Day
4/13 Dyngus Day (First Monday after Easter)
Thomas Jefferson Day
White House Easter Egg Roll what’s in them this year?
India: Vaisakhi
South Africa: Family Day
Sri Lanka: Sinhala and Tamil New Year
Switzerland: Egg Races
Thailand: Songkran Festival
4/14 Children with Alopecia Day
National Be Kind to Lawyers Day okay, this was supposed to be on 4/1!
Pan American Day
Honduras: Dia Las Americas
4/15 Income Tax Pay Day boo hiss…hopefully you get a refund…
McDonald’s Day cause that’s all you can afford to eat…
Take a Wild Guess Day
That Sucks Day is this about taxes again?
Equal Pay Day
Massachusetts & Maine: Patriot’s Day
Rubber Eraser Day taxes again??
4/16 High Five Day
International Moment of Laughter Day
International Stress Awareness Day
National Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day not the silk teddies…
Denmark: Queen Margaret’s Birthday
Teen Literature Day read to a teenager!
4/17 Blah! Blah! Blah! Day this is what teens hear…
Ellis Island Family History Day
Ford Mustang Day is there a Thunderbird day?
World Hemophilia Day
Syrian Arab Republic: Independence Day
4/18 Adult Autism Day
Pet Owners Independence Day
Record Store Day spin some vinyl!
Respect Your Mother Day
Teach Your Daughter to Volunteer Day
Third World Day
World Amateur Radio Day ham it up with Mom!
Husband Appreciation Day ummm…
Auctioneers Day
4/19 National Hanging Out Day with who?
Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day
Orthodox Easter Sunday
4/20 Boston Marathon
4/21 Kindergarten Day God bless the little children…
National Chocolate-covered Cashews Day yum!
National Teach your Children to Save Day
Israel: Holocaust Day
South Africa: Family Day
4/22 Chemists Celebrate the Earth Day with chemicals!
Earth Day go green!
National Jelly Bean Day eat green Jelly Bellies!
Administrative Professionals Day (or Secretary’s Day)
4/23 World Book & Copyright Day don’t copy!
St. George Feast Day
Take Our Daughters & Sons to Work Day
Turkey: National Sovereignty Day & Children’s Day
4/24 Arbor Day plant a tree
National Hairball Awareness Day okay, ewwww!
4/25 Bob Willis Day who’s Bob Willis? Related to John Galt?
Bulldogs are Beautiful Day
California Poppy Day poppies…poppies…
Global Youth Services Day
Malaria Awareness Day
National Rebuilding Day
Red Hat Society Day you go, girls!
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day
4/26 Hug an Australian Day g’day, mates!
International Marconi Day
Richter Scale Day shake it up!
Mother, Father Deaf Day
4/27 Babe Ruth Day
Mantanzas Mule Day
Morse Code Day dit dit dit dah dah dah dit dit dit
Togo: Independence Day
Sierra Leone: Independence Day
South Africa: Freedom Day
4/28 Workers Memorial Day ’cause some people do still have jobs…
Egypt: Sham El-Nessim
4/29 Sense of Smell Day hope it’s pleasant…
National Dance Day
Israel: Independence Day
Japan: Showa Day
St. Catherine of Siena: Feast Day
Taiwan: Cheng Cheng Kung Landing Day
4/30 Beltane
Hairstylists Appreciation Day tip well, my friends!
National Honesty Day with your hairstylist?
Spank Out Day – USA spare the rod…
Sweden: Feast of Valborg
Walpurgis Night
Selected Author’s April birthdays:
4/1 Anne McCaffrey, 1926; Edward Myers, 1950
4/2 Washington Irving, 1783; Hans Christian Andersen, 1805
4/3 Virginia Silverstein, 1937; Sandra Boynton, 1953
4/4 Maya Angelou, 1928; Elizabeth Levy, 1942
4/5 Richard Peck, 1934; Lurlene McDaniel, 1944; Todd Strasser, 1950
4/6 Jerdine Nolan, 1953; Graeme Base, 1958
4/7 Donald Carrick, 1929; Alice Schertle, 1941
4/8 Ruth Chew, 1920; Susan Bonners, 1947; Steven Schnur, 1952
4/9 Joseph Krumgold, 1908; Margaret Peterson Haddix, 1964
4/10 Harvey Weiss, 1922; Martin Waddell, 1941; David Adler, 1947
4/11 Graham Salisbury, 1944; April Pulley Sayre, 1966
4/12 C.W. Anderson, 1891; Beverly Cleary, 1916; Gary Soto, 1952
4/13 Marguerite Henry, 1902; Lee Bennett Hopkins, 1938
4/14 Robert Lopshire, 1927; Susan Saunders, 1945
4/15 Eleanor Schick, 1942; Jacqueline Briggs Martin, 1945
4/16 Gertrude Chandler Warner, 1890; John Christopher, 1922
4/17 Roy Gallant, 1924; Martyn Godfrey, 1947
4/18 Barbara Reid, 1922; Mitchell Sharmat, 1927
4/19 Jon Agee, 1960; Javaka Steptoe, 1971
4/20 Mary Hoffman, 1945
4/21 Charlotte Brontë, 1816; Jane Breskin Zalben, 1950
4/22 Kurt Wiese, 1887; Paula Fox, 1923; Eileen Christelow, 1943
4/23 William Shakespeare, 1564
4/24 Robert Penn Warren, 1905; Evaline Ness, 1911
4/25 Alvin Schwartz, 1927; George Ella Lyon, 1949
4/26 Patricia Reilly Giff, 1935; Marilyn Nelson, 1946
4/27 Coretta Scott King, 1927; Barbara Park, 1947
4/28 Harper Lee, 1927; Lois Duncan, 1934; Virginia Kroll, 1948
4/29 Jill Paton Walsh, 1937; Nichole Rubel, 1953
4/30 Barbara Corrigan, 1933; Kirkpatrick Hill, 1938
April 1, 2009 at 2:51 pm |
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