Dearest Readers,<\/p>\n
It’s Saturday. I love Saturdays. I think it has to be my favourite day of the week. I’m self-employed so Saturday is a work day for me but I’m choosing<\/i> to work. M-F I feel like I have to work because everyone else does, too. The work I do on Saturdays feels like fun. <\/p>\n
Because I’m doing fun things on Saturdays in between the work tasks. I’m watching You Tube and e-shopping. And I stay in my PJ’s until I have to go out, if I do. I’m playing.<\/p>\n
That’s what Saturday is. It’s Play Day. <\/p>\n
When I was a kid growing up in Toronto (after we left the Yukon) there was an actual day at the end of the school year called Play Day. I think I looked forward to that day from just about the first school day in September. It was a beacon of light at the end of a long tunnel of lessons.<\/p>\n
Play Day took place at a location we called the Reservoir, just near the famous Casa Loma. We’d all traipse up there from our little school in Rosedale and play games all day. There were water-balloon fights and three-legged races, races with an egg held on a teaspoon, and races in burlap sacs. Lots of races!<\/p>\n
It was always sunny, the beginning of summer days to come. There were vats of that orange McDonald’s drink that’s not quite pop but not quite juice either. It was glorious.<\/p>\n
So I usually waken on Saturdays with that orange-McDonald’s-drink feeling. I would never ingest that stuff today but the memory of it is enough to make a girl go out and find a friend, tie our outside legs together and run in three-legged style across an open field.<\/p>\n
Inspiring Message of the Day: Do something FUN today. A kid’s game. Something that evokes the feeling of childhood freedom and innocent times. Make it a Play Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dearest Readers, It’s Saturday. I love Saturdays. I think it has to be my favourite day of the week. I’m self-employed so Saturday is a work day for me but I’m choosing to work. M-F I feel like I have to work because everyone else does, too. The work I do on Saturdays feels like…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-motivation","category-play-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}