Happy Presidents Day! I just love Presidents Day. I don’t know about your home but in our home we just love the traditions that we enjoy each and every year. This is the time of year that I dress up as Abraham Lincoln (black beard, tall top hat, long black coat…). Once I am completely in character I march around the house shouting at the top of my lungs: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation!” (That’s all I know, so I just repeat that phrase over and over). Tammy dresses up as Mary Todd Lincoln and spends the afternoon in the kitchen baking apple pies. Of course I avoid the theatre like the plague – I’m not stupid you know.
In the evening we decorate a cherry tree with 43 ornaments, one for each of the presidents. Once the 3 of us have gathered around the tree we have a meal consisting of hot dogs and apple pie and I read from each and every State of the Union ever given… we don’t exchange gifts though, we like to keep it simple.
Now be honest Abe, does your wife REALLY bake apple pies on President's Day? Where do you get your apple trees? What types of ornaments do you use? Where do you buy them?
ReplyDeleteBryan,
ReplyDeleteWhere do we get our apples? Well, once we have our outfits on we drive to WalMart and choose the best looking apples.
What types of ornaments do we use? I totally forgot to mention that we hand make the ornaments from hot dogs. We form each ornament to resemble the president it represents. The tough one is President Taft; he weighed 350 pounds. It takes one whole package of hot dogs to make his ornament.
Hope this helps if you plan on beginning your own Presidents Day tradition.