##May 19th is…
###National Devil’s Food Cake Day
Observed annually on May 19, National Devil’s Food Cake Day is enjoyed by chocolate cake lovers throughout the country and around the world.
Devil’s Food cake is a divine chocolate cake. It differs from a regular chocolate cake by its darker color and tends to be more moist and airy. Devil’s Food cake recipes use hot or boiling water as the primary liquid. Cocoa is typically used in the batter, as opposed to chocolate, and coffee can be added for a distinctive flavor. A delicious chocolate frosting usually accompanies the cake.
Recipes for Devil’s Food cakes often appeared alongside recipes for Angel Food cakes. One of the earliest recipes appeared in the August 10, 1898, edition of the Hagerstown Exponent of Hagerstown, Indiana.
###National May Ray Day
Observed each year on May 19 is May Ray Day. Outside, enjoying the sunshine and soaking up some rays is where this celebration takes place!
There are many ways to enjoy the outdoors and the warmer days as summer approaches. Whether your place under the sun is at the park, a rooftop or your own back yard find a way to enjoy the nicer weather. If mother nature isn’t cooperating, there are several days in May remaining. National May Ray Day can be used to plan a day outside.
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###Circus Day
Circus Day is a day of fun and adventure. Celebrate this day by visiting the circus and enjoying all the acts and people who work so hard to entertain you. From the acrobats to the clowns, a day at the circus is a day full of excitement.
This holiday marks the anniversary of when the Ringling Brothers opened their first circus on May 19th, 1884. In 1919, the Ringling Brothers Circus was merged with the PT Barnum & Bailey Circus to form the now famous Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
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###Boys Club and Girls Club Day
Boys and Girls Club Day celebrates the invaluable Boys Clubs and Girls Clubs around the country. There are clubs all over America providing safe recreational activities for our youth. They teach values and citizenship. They help to keep kids out of trouble and off of the street.
Today is a day to recognize the importance of these groups for our children and to the community. With more and more parents at work, and broken families, these groups take on added importance.
You can celebrate Boys Club and Girls Club Day in a variety of ways:
Learn about your local Boys and Girls clubs
Encourage your children to join them
As parents and adults, volunteer your time
Make a donation
If there is no club in your area, play a role in starting one.
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###Notebook Day
There’s a holiday coming to town, and its one that will definitely be one to take note of, as it strives to fill the world with anecdotes and commentaries and memoirs. There likely isn’t a one of us that hasn’t tried journaling at some point in their lives, especially as teenagers. Remember all that cringe worthy poetry? Yep, probably still moldering away in a journal somewhere, just waiting to embarrass you with the soppy angst-ridden days of youth.
2016 is the inauguration of Notebook day, and seeks to speak to the world about the importance of journaling and what it can do to help us. As we’ve mentioned, we know all the things we journaled about before, most of us kept one as a kid, and all the poetry we read in English class often filled us with inspiration to write our own. As we encountered the challenges of youth, especially first love, the journal began being filled with angry thoughts, deep emotions, and the general process of trying to figure out who we were and what the world would make of us. Time has come to reveal that journaling is a vitally important process that can have profound psychological effects on the one keeping it.
“The notebook and planner community is so vibrant and alive,” said Mica May, CEO of custom notebook company May Designs. “If anything, our customers have become even more dedicated to paper over the past few years. There’s this amazing connection between writing something down that you can’t get typing it into your phone or laptop.” The power of paper has yet to decline, and in certain circles is being raised in unexpected ways. CEO’s in technology driven Silicon Valley are jumping on the cellulose bandwagon, choosing paper notes over digital apps. There’s just something that comes into perspective when you see it down on paper.
Grab yourself a notebook and bust it open, start writing down all the thoughts and worries of your day and see them put into a form that makes them manageable. Got an idea forming? Jot it in the corners or write it out in complete detail so that you never miss a beat. Idle and bored? Let your hands do the walking and doodle on the page, psychologists reveal that a lot can be shown by what a person chooses to doodle. Whatever you do, Notebook Day is the best day to open up those old journals, read our old thoughts and see how we changed, and open up a new page in our lives by starting a new one!