Chocolates are part of the joy on holidays. My mother always gave me and
my
sisters’ chocolates on holidays. She never had any chocolate in the house any
other time of the year. My little sister turned this tradition on its ear when
she started school.
My little sister found out in school that there are a lot of holidays
that she hadn’t known about. She found out that there is a holiday almost every
day somewhere in the world. She quizzed our mother about her policy on chocolates
and then came up with a great plan.
She made a list of all of the new holidays that we would be celebrating in
our house. She did this in an effort to have more chocolates, but it ended
up being a really fun and quirky part of our family. We were the only family
in our town that probably celebrated Groundhog Day with chocolates.
Valentine’s Day is an obvious holiday for chocolates. The not so obvious
holidays for chocolates are maybe St. Patrick’s Day or the Queen’s Birthday.
We celebrated every holiday we could find with fervour.
Most people that know me know about my continued obsession with holidays
and chocolates. I went to the store on Earth Day and bought everyone at my
office chocolates that were organically grown and fairly traded. Those are
my favourite chocolates.
I have never really been able to come up with a theme that included chocolates
for United Nations Day until last year. I had a brainstorm and came up with
the idea of molded chocolates decorated like the flags of the world. It was
a heck of an undertaking, but the end result was worth it. I invited all my
sisters over for a party with chocolates, just like when we were kids.
My best advice to kids with sisters like mine is to never eat the chocolates
on April Fool’s Day. It is actually best to avoid eating anything that anybody
gives you on this day. I have been fooled more than twice in my life that
is for sure.
My favourite holiday for chocolates has always been and will probably always
be Halloween. I just love chocolates on Halloween. I always give chocolates
out to the neighbour children. I try to give the kind of chocolates that make
kids dig through their snack sacks at the end of my driveway. Even though I’ve
grown up, I still want all of the chocolate holidays to be fun.
