There are quite a few monthly celebrations/holidays/awareness days that happen during the month of November.  I don’t have time to discuss them all, but here is a list of a few of them:

• Adopt a Senior Pet Month
• American Diabetes Month
• Aviation History Month
• Banana Pudding Lovers Month
• Diabetic Eye Disease Month
• Epilepsy Awareness Month
• Family Stories Month
• Gluten-free Diet Awareness Month
• Greens and Plantains Month
• Historic Bridge Awareness Month
• I Am So Thankful Month
• International Drum (Percussion) Month
• International Orphan Disease Month
• Lung Cancer Awareness Month
• Military Family Appreciation Month
• National Adoption Month
• National AIDS Awareness Month
• National Alzheimer’s Disease Month
• National American Indian Heritage Month
• National Family Caregivers Month
• National Georgia Pecan Month
• National Healthy Skin Month
• National Hospice Month
• National Impotency Month
• National Inspirational Role Models Month
• National Lifewriting Month
• National Marrow Awareness Month
• National Novel Writing Month
• National Pomegranate Month
• Peanut Butter Lovers’ Month
• Spinach and Squash Month
• more at classbrain.com and brownielocks.com

Man, they have a holiday for everything!  Do we really need a whole month to celebrate Banana Pudding Lovers?  Seriously?!  Although I am on board with the Peanut Butter Lovers’ Month.  Mmmm, peanut butter…

It is also Cyber Monday today – a marketing “holiday” where online shopping in America has huge discounts, like Black Friday is to in-store shopping – and “Make Your Own Head Day“, where you’re supposed to be crafty and create your own head (yes, a very odd holiday – must have been made up by a grade school teacher running out of ideas for day plans).