Family Day in US?

[Virgil Showlion]

It's "Family Day" in Canada today—a statutory holiday.

Forgive my ignorance, but is the same true for the US? Do you call it "Family Day" or something else?

[Deleted]

It is President's day in the US. A great day to go buy a mattress.

[swamp]

Or a great day to lounge around and do nothing

[Malarky]

Or a car.

[busymom]

President's Day is family day in a different way. There's no school, so I'm home with the kids....

[swamp]

My kids are at grammas

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

Family Day in Canada is a day set aside for family unity. We're encouraged to spend the day doing things together - like visiting a zoo or museum, playing games, ice-skating - whatever.

Depending on your family it's a fun day. ;D

[Virgil Showlion]

Thanks for the info.

I have trouble keeping track of which holidays you guys have that we don't, or you don't that we do, or observe on different days, or observe on the same day but call something different, or...

[mollyc]

It isn't Family Day in Canada, Virgil.

It's Family Day in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario. According to my calendar, it's Islander Day in PEI and Louis Riel Day in Manitoba.

The rest of us have to go to work today.

[Deleted]

Feb 20, 2012 10:23:30 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Thanks for the info.

I have trouble keeping track of which holidays you guys have that we don't, or you don't that we do, or observe on different days, or observe on the same day but call something different, or...

We just need to annex Canada and be done with it already.

[moon/Laura]

Feb 20, 2012 10:06:44 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

It's "Family Day" in Canada today—a statutory holiday.

Forgive my ignorance, but is the same true for the US? Do you call it "Family Day" or something else?

I call it "Monday".


No holiday for me. My son is out of school, but he's at my sister's.

[TD2K]

I don't remember "Family Day" when I lived in Canada, is it a new holiday?

[dancinmama]

No holiday for DH, but he's taking a day of vacation.

[Deleted]

Feb 20, 2012 11:23:59 GMT -5 TD2K said:

I don't remember "Family Day" when I lived in Canada, is it a new holiday?

Yep, it's about 3 years old or so.

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

Family Day was first introduced in Alberta - in 1990 - to reflect on the values of family & home that were the foundation of the pioneers of Alberta and give workers time to spend with their families. Saskatchewan added Family Day in 2007, and Ontario in 2008.

[swamp]

Feb 20, 2012 11:06:32 GMT -5 @rj said:

Feb 20, 2012 10:09:37 GMT -5 swamp said:

Or a great day to lounge around and do nothing

Or try and make a family

No way!! DH is at work, the kids are with gramma, and I'm here all by myself and I'm enjoying every second of it. I might just break out the wine, pretty soon, but I planned on going for a walk when it warms up some more, and since I walk on the highway, I should probably wait until after to drink. I don't want to stagger in front of a truck.

[Deleted]

Feb 20, 2012 11:35:40 GMT -5 swamp said:

Feb 20, 2012 11:06:32 GMT -5 @rj said:

Or try and make a family

No way!! DH is at work, the kids are with gramma, and I'm here all by myself and I'm enjoying every second of it. I might just break out the wine, pretty soon, but I planned on going for a walk when it warms up some more, and since I walk on the highway, I should probably wait until after to drink. I don't want to stagger in front of a truck.

There is nothing nicer than walking along side tractor trailers going 75 Mph...

[Virgil Showlion]

During an undergrad course on engineering in ancient societies, I had the opportunity to do some research on Hellenistic Greece. The following interesting factoid came up:

In the time of Plato and Aristotle, there was no such thing as weekends. There was no 7-day work cycle and work was ongoing. The only days off that workers and labourers got were national holidays.

However...

Although the number varied a bit by state, province, etc., a typical year contained 120 holidays. They must have assigned one for virtually every religion and culture under the sun.

If you compute 52 weeks x 2 days plus 7 stat holidays and one week at Christmas, you end up with 118 days off circa 2012. Hence, the Hellenistic Greeks enjoyed roughly the same number of days off that we do today, only on a very different schedule.

[Deleted]

Feb 20, 2012 11:53:26 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

During an undergrad course on engineering in ancient societies, I had the opportunity to do some research on Hellenistic Greece. The following interesting factoid came up:

In the time of Plato and Aristotle, there was no such thing as weekends. There was no 7-day work cycle and work was ongoing. The only days off that workers and labourers got were national holidays.

However...

Although the number varied a bit by state, province, etc., a typical year contained 120 holidays. They must have assigned one for virtually every religion and culture under the sun.

If you compute 52 weeks x 2 days plus 7 stat holidays and one week at Christmas, you end up with 118 days off circa 2012. Hence, the Hellenistic Greeks enjoyed roughly the same number of days off that we do today, only on a very different schedule.

bunch of socialist good for nothings.

[Apple]

Feb 20, 2012 11:38:02 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

There is nothing nicer than walking along side tractor trailers going 75 Mph...

Especially in the dark!

We need a family day! I'd go for sometime in late March, early April (aka the holiday dry season).

There are 10 federal holidays where banks, post office, etc get the day off. They are not required to have school off for President's Day, but most do (our district had us go to school one year and they caught hell from the parents). Columbus Day isn't required for schools either.

New Years
MLK Jr Day
President's Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Columbus Day
Veteran's Day
Thanksgiving
Christmas

[Deleted]

We get 6 of those.

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

In Alberta, there's also Heritage Day - the first Monday of August.

[Cass]

Feb 20, 2012 10:40:50 GMT -5 mollyc said:

It isn't Family Day in Canada, Virgil.

It's Family Day in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario. According to my calendar, it's Islander Day in PEI and Louis Riel Day in Manitoba.

The rest of us have to go to work today.

I thought it was Federal too.

Welcome Molly, what province are you in?

[ride]

It is President's day in the US.

We don't have much reason to celebrate right now and most likely for the next 4 plus years

[weltschmerz]

Family Day? Never heard of it.

[Deleted]

Feb 20, 2012 10:06:44 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

It's "Family Day" in Canada today—a statutory holiday.

Forgive my ignorance, but is the same true for the US? Do you call it "Family Day" or something else?

Really? Nobody told me I am in Canada and it most definitely isn't a holiday here.

[thyme4change]

We're encouraged to spend the day doing things together - like visiting a zoo or museum, playing games, ice-skating - whatever.

Except those people who work at the zoo, museum, ice rink, bowling alley, etc.

[weltschmerz]

It's "Family Day" in Canada today—a statutory holiday.
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It's Family Day" in three provinces.
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[Cass]

Except those people who work at the zoo, museum, ice rink, bowling alley, etc.

But they make good money to work it at least. I always volunteer for the stats.

[Deleted]

Feb 20, 2012 14:11:46 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

It's "Family Day" in Canada today—a statutory holiday.
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It's Family Day" in three provinces.
:::fixed:::

Next year you can add BC to the list, so I hear.