Chocolate. I promise.
Cross my heart.
I am NOT deliberately trying to derail your New Year’s resolutions.
Honest!
It’s just that I think you should know …
There are chocolate holidays on the horizon.
Sure, there’s Valentine’s Day.
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And Mother’s Day follows shortly thereafter.
But sometimes, a woman needs more excuses to succumb to her urges—no, let’s call them “instincts.”
Your intuition knows when you need a nibble.
And quite frankly, a couple of heart-shaped-box holidays are not enough.
Photo by John Hritz via Wikimedia Commons
After all, there is new science cropping up all the time, telling us how fabulous chocolate can be for body and spirit.
So get out your calendars and mark down these days (they appear throughout the year!) as reasons to celebrate chocolate with abandon.
February 1: National Dark Chocolate Day
February 5: National Chocolate Fondue Day
February 19: National Chocolate Mint Day
February 25: National Chocolate-covered Nuts Day
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March 19: National Chocolate Caramel Day
March 24: National Chocolate-covered Raisins Day
April 21: National Chocolate-covered Cashews Day
May 15: National Chocolate Chip Day
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June 7: National Chocolate Ice Cream Day
June 26: National Chocolate Pudding Day
July 28: National Milk Chocolate Day
August 10: National S’mores Day
September 12: National Chocolate Milkshake Day
Photo by Peter M. via Wikimedia Commons
September 13: International Chocolate Day
September 22: National White Chocolate Day
October 28: National Chocolate Day
November 7: National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day
December 16: National Chocolate-covered Anything Day
Photo by Bryan Ochalla via Wikimedia Commons
December 28: National Chocolate Day
If you have any deep, dark secrets about how to best commemorate any of these delicious days, do tell.
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My featured Merit Badge Awardee of the Week is … Sonja Gasper!!!
Sonja Gasper (#5671) has received a certificate of achievement in Stitching & Crafting for earning a Beginner Level Crochet Merit Badge!
“My grandmother taught me how to chain and do the single and double crochet stitches when I was just old enough to manage a hook. We have a great yarn shop here in town called The Black Purl, and the owner helped me get started again with some beautiful yarn by Ella Rae. I used a 5.5 mm hook and retaught myself the single stitch, working especially on consistent tension, making an infinity scarf. It is 60″ around and 6″ wide and took me about 8 hours total to do. It curled, so I also had to learn how to block a project as well.
I wore it for an hour and then popped it in the mail to a friend who is in Texas (and is not used to the cold) as a surprise! I have already started a new one for myself, checking the Internet for more things to learn, and have added on double, basket, and grit stitches as more of a sampler scarf, but in the same color. It is going much faster this time!”
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Here’s how:
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