I am not sure we will do anything different today, but it is a holiday of sorts. Growing up, March 17 was an excuse to pinch someone if they didn't happen to be wearing green, which as a kid, was just a cute excuse to come up on a random person of the opposite sex and interact with them, I don't see a good enough reason for this to have become a thing otherwise. As a holiday, it falls right after Valentine's Day and Spring Break, and then Easter is mixed in sometimes before and sometimes after.
These all seemed like lesser holidays than the big three, which are almost directly tied to the first half of the school year. The school year would start and it would be serious business until Halloween, Oct 31. From there, it would be a quick 2-3 weeks to Thanksgiving, which used to only be two days off from school, but now has become a week off and a much bigger deal. This, of course was capped by Christmas/Winter break. Christmas was and is the biggest thing because not only do we get off for a couple weeks (I have even made it a regular thing to take two weeks off from work), but Christmas is in there which is a time for gifts and visiting loved ones, then New Year's, which adds to making that time special.
In today's environment, for us at least, the fall is filled bric-a-brac with football. No particular game matters greatly personally, except for the ones where Mijo is playing, and they only matter in that we sit there worried he doesn't get hurt. Added all together though and most every weekend in the fall is occupied with either a high school game from his alma mater (Go Coogs!), his college games (Go Pirates!), the Longhorns and other college games that seem important that weekend, and then whatever NFL game gets the biggest hype on any particular Sunday/Monday night. Either way, there is always a reason to be tuned in and cheering.
The Spring just does not have that intensity. First off, it starts in the tail end of daylight savings time, so it still gets dark too soon, we tried getting excited for wrestling, but without our son doing it, it isn't the same. Even this sport ends in early February, right as Valentine's Day rolls around. Wife has never wanted me to splurge on gifts for her, so it just comes and goes, maybe I buy some chocolate but usually it's just a lukewarm fart of a holiday.
Spring Break is usually our first big hooray of the Spring with a week off from school, but this year with my diagnosis, we didn't even get out of town, so it was just meh. We don't really drink, so the green beer and other green activities will most likely just get lost in translation. I am hoping Easter will be a little better, we usually do spend that holiday at my mom's house.
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