Thursday, March 4, 2010

March Forth

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Whenever March fourth rolls around, Joe states, "March fourth...the only day with a command!" Because it is also one of his best friend's birthdays, he calls him up and instructs him to "March forth into a new year!"

When I posted this on twitter this morning, I was reminded that there is also "March First". How could I have missed that?! Here I am, thinking I need to 'March forth' when I didn't even 'March first' a few days ago.

Anyway, since the date does tell us to do something, we like to make it a notable day. Believe it or not, it is probably one of my favorite days of the year. I mentioned our good friend's birthday, but there are also other notable March 4th's in our past.

-Last year on March 4th, I registered my Etsy shop. Although I didn't actually start posting hand knits for sale until the end of the month, I had just decided on my name and took action. Because of this, this past year has been an incredible journey into a new world of creating, designing, and blogging.

-My grandparents got married on March 4th 53 years ago (Happy Anniversary, Dee Da and Doe Doe- I love you!).

-Today I will begin tackling the Adobe Creative Suite I just got in the mail- we'll see where that takes me :)

-My favorite March 4th? Five years ago today, while visiting my grandparents and celebrating their anniversary with them, Joe asked me to spend the rest of my life with him. What a wonderful day that was. Here's to the next 55 years!

So, take action. What have you been putting off? March forth and make today count!

16 comments:

  1. Wow, what a great day of anniversaries!! Tell Joe that he made me laugh out loud - I've never thought about "March fourth" being a command before, haha. Love it.

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  2. This is such an awesome day for you! I don't think I have a single day in my life that has so many things to celebrate all together. I hope it's wonderful :)

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  3. March forth....only Joe! I never have thought of that before...too funny. :) What a great post, Melynda! I really enjoy reading these.

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  4. Great post Melynda! What an awesome day. I'm going off to march forth into some shopping :P

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  5. This was hilarious, Melynda. I loved the march fourth and march first comment...clever.

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  6. What a great post! Definitely makes me think of what I've been holding back on. I shall now march forth!

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  7. Great post! It is always nice to read about such wonderful stories!

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  8. great post - and I never thought of march first or march forth

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  9. I don't know how you can say that you can't write... this (and all your posts) are well written, have great humour, and are enjoyable! Amanda

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  10. Wonderful! smiles.

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  11. Great words about marching forth. Sounds like words from the Bible.

    I hope that you come to love Adobe Creative Suite as much as I do. Photoshop is wonderful!!

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  12. Your post made me smile and cry just a bit. Thanks for such a wonderful post!

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  13. my husband stated, rather loudly "March Forth" throughout the day. Then remembered there is also "March too"! Enough already!
    Not only does Joe knit, he knows how to hit a home run by proposing on an important family day! Nice to have a "keeper".
    --GracieB aka Helle B

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  14. I love this! My husband and I also have a special day in March. Last year on the 7th, we were married!

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  15. I love this! Just hope I can remember it next year. I'm becoming your Facebook fan so you can remind me!

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