Photo credit: Rosie, from the Jetsons, by Deidre Woollard

September 23rd is... The Jetsons' Debuted (1962), Celebrate Bisexuality Day, National Checkers Day, Innergize Day, National Great American Pot Pie Day, National Snack Stick Day, National Dogs in Politics Day, Teal Talk Day, Restless Legs Syndrome Awareness Day, Airmail Started (1911), Autumn Stroll Day, Festival of Sukkot, National Key Lime Pie Day, National Singles Day, Libra Begins (Tropical Zodiac), Holocaust Memorial Day (Lithuania)

MORE (4th Sunday): Daughter's Day, Family Day (CASA Columbia)

PLUS - interesting books to read and free printables, paper crafts, kid crafts, activities, and coloring pages...

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The Jetsons' Debuted
- An American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera, originally airing in primetime from September 23, 1962, to March 17, 1963, then later in syndication, with new episodes in 1985 to 1987 as part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera block. The Jetsons may have had it easy when it came to everyday life, but they always had problems when it came to machines automatically waking them up for work and putting timers on the food machines when it's time to eat. Source

Read: The Jetsons: The Official Guide to the Cartoon Classic
-- a fun and fact-filled guide to all things Orbit City! Officially licensed from Warner Bros., it includes everything you need to know about your favorite characters, memorable moments, and funny gadgets from 2062. So hop in your flying car and get ready to blast into the futuristic past with this hilariously informative guide to all things Jetson!

• Funko Pop: Rosie -- From Hanna Barbera, Jetsons - Rosie, as a stylized POP vinyl from Funko! Figure stands 3 3/4 inches and comes in a window display box.

• The Jetsons Collector Action Figures -- Your favorite Hanna-Barbera characters from all the classic shows you loved back in the day are coming alive with these cool figures. The Jetsons collector addition comes with 6 of the greatest character from the hit show, George, Jane, Judy, Rosie, Elroy, and Astro. Bring the entire family together again in this incredible pack. It's out of this world.

• Jetsons Spaceship Cookie Jar -- Westland Giftware's The Jetsons Spaceship Cookie Jar is made of ceramic and features the iconic animated family. Licensed Jetsons product. A great collector's gift

• The Jetsons Coloring Books

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Checkers Day
- celebrate Checkers Day with a few games of checkers, perhaps a little coffee and cake, and plenty of fun!

Airmail Started (1911)
- The first official American Airmail delivery was made on September 23, 1911, by pilot Earle Ovington under the authority of the United States Post Office Department. The Post Office lost money on air mail service: between 1918 and 1925, its airmail service had cost $17 million to operate and had brought in less than a third of that.

Celebrate Bi-Sexuality Day
- This day is a call for bisexual, pansexual, friends and supporters to recognize and celebrate bisexuality, bisexual history, bisexual community and culture, and the bi/pansexual people in their lives

Innergize Day
- For all of you who never seem to find time for yourselves, today is the day to do whatever you want!

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Make cooking dinner easy by using a slow cooker to help you with your meals. Not only do they make for an easy cleanup, but it only takes minutes to prep a meal for the entire family.

Our friends over at Your Best Digs recently created 10 5-ingredient slow cooker recipes to make the transition from summer to fall so much easier. Simply throw the ingredients in the slow cooker in the morning, and you have a prepared meal by the time the kids come home from school.

One of my favorites (and the kids too!) is the homemade creamy mac and cheese!





And, if you’re looking for a healthy option, try out the herb roasted vegetables! The great part of this recipe is you can swap out the vegetables throughout the week and make this multiple times.





Download and print the rest of the free recipes at the bottom of this best slow cooker post!

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Tips to Inspire Kids To Care For Living Landscapes, Get Outside

When it comes to our yards, school grounds, parks, and other living landscapes, you don't have to be big to make a big difference.

School is back in session soon for students around the country, and Lucky the TurfMutt is offering tips to inspire elementary school students and their families to take care of the green spaces around them -- and get outside and enjoy them!

Tip #1: Get outside!
-- Fall is a great time to explore nature all around you. After spending a long day inside at school, encourage your child to take time afterward to enjoy your yard and nearby parks.

Tip #2. Notice the different kinds of plants in your yard.
-- Take your children around the outside of your home. Encourage them to take notes and sketch what you see. What makes your yard unique? Draw the living (plants, trees, grass) and the non-living (patios, grills) parts of your landscape. What might impact living plants? Does your yard need plants that do well in the wind, full sun, shade, or occasional flooding?

Tip #3: Notice the areas needing improvements.
-- Do plants need mulch around them to help them save water? Do you have plants that attract pollinators like hummingbirds, bees and butterflies? Do you have a healthy mix of grass, shrubs, trees, and flowering plants? Are some parts of your yard a little worn out?

Tip #4: Make a plan to take care of your yard.
-- Have a family talk about how you can care for your lawn and landscape, and the improvements you want to make. Create a plan to take care of the yard and make the improvements together.

Tip #5: Put the right plant in the right place.
-- Check the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map to find out what plants are best for where you live. Use a mix of native and adaptive plants and place them where they will thrive.

Tip #6: Visit TurfMutt.com to play games and read digital storybooks for free to learn more.
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For more tips, go to SaveLivingLandscapes.com

About TurfMutt
TurfMutt was created by the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute's (OPEI) Research and Education Foundation and has reached more than 68 million children, educators and families since 2009. Through classroom materials developed with Scholastic, TurfMutt teaches students and teachers how to save the planet, one yard at a time. TurfMutt is an official USGBC® Education Partner and education resource at the U.S. Department of Education's Green Ribbon Schools, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Green Apple, the Center for Green Schools, the Outdoors Alliance for Kids, the National Energy Education Development (NEED) project, Climate Change Live, Petfinder and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In 2017, the TurfMutt animated video series won the coveted Cynopsis Kids Imagination Award for Best Interstitial Series. TurfMutt's personal, home habitat is featured in the 2017 and 2018 Wildlife Habitat Council calendars. More information at TurfMutt.com.

September 21st is...National Elephant Appreciation Day, American Business Women's Day/American Women in Business Day, Dear Diary Day, International Day of Radiant Peace, National Centenarian's Day, National Girls' Night In Day, National Hobbit Day, National Legwear Day, National Ice Cream Cone Day/Ice Cream Cone Birthday, National White Chocolate Day, The First Day of Fall/Autumn Equinox/Last Day of Summer (Astrological), World Carfree Day, Proposal Day!®, World Rhino Day, Band-Aid Invented (1921), Hug a Vegetarian Day, U.S. Post Office Opened (1692), Native Americans Day, Pledge Across America Day, Batman Day, Chainmail Day, National Rock n' Roll Dog Day, Remote Employee Appreciation Day, OneWebDay, National Learn To Code Day (Canada), Isha's World Peace Day, National Colouring Day (Canada)

MORE (4th Saturday): Fish Amnesty Day, International Rabbit Day, Kiwanis Kids' Day, National Hunting and Fishing Day, National Seat Check Saturday, National Wildlife Ecology Day, National Singles Day, Bright Pink Lipstick Day, National Museum Day/Museum Day Live, National Public Lands Day

PLUS - interesting books to read and free printables, paper crafts, kid crafts, activities, and coloring pages.

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National Elephant Appreciation Day
-- Wayne Hepburn, the owner of Mission Media, a graphics and publishing company, originated this day in 1996 when he received an elephant paperweight as a gift from his young daughter. Elephants deserve to be appreciated and upheld as an example of courage, strength, self-reliance, patience, persistence, and general high quality of being.

Read: The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild, by Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence
-- When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of rogue wild elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in Zululand, his common sense told him to refuse. But he was the herd's last chance of survival: they would be killed if he wouldn't take them. A heartwarming, exciting, funny, and sometimes sad account of Anthony's experiences with these huge yet sympathetic creatures. Set against the background of life on an African game reserve, with unforgettable characters and exotic wildlife, it is a delightful book appealing to animal lovers and adventurous souls everywhere.

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• Elephant Coloring Books

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• 25 Things You Should Know on Elephant Appreciation Day
• Do something elephant-themed, such as symbolically adopting an elephant
• Contribute to World Wildlife Fund's Back a Ranger program
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Autumn Equinox
- This is the moment when day (light) is equal to night (dark)
and balance is created between them.

Band-Aid Invented
- Earle Dickson was employed as a cotton buyer for the Johnson and Johnson when he invented the band-aid in 1921. His wife Josephine Dickson was always cutting her fingers in the kitchen while preparing food.

Dear Diary Day
- What a great day to start journaling!

Hug a Vegetarian Day
- the day designated for hugging those people who love animals the most: vegetarians and vegans!

Ice Cream Cone Birthday
- Edible cones have been mentioned in French cooking books as early as 1825, Julien Archambault describes a cone where one can roll little waffles.

U.S. Post Office Opened
- The first postal service in America arose in February of 1692 when a grant from King William and Queen Mary empowered Thomas Neale to erect, settle and establish within the chief parts of their majesties' colonies and plantations in America, an office or offices for the receiving and dispatching letters and packets, and to receive, send and deliver the same under such rates and sums of money as the planters shall agree to give, and to hold and enjoy the same for the term of twenty-one years.

American Business Women's Day
- marks the 1949 founding date of the American Business Women's Association, the mission of which is to bring together businesswomen of diverse occupations and to provide opportunities for them to help themselves and others grow personally and professionally through leadership; education, networking support and national recognition.

National Seat Check Day
- Vehicle safety events and child safety seat checks are being held today around the country to help you make sure that each and every time you take your child in your car, he or she is safely restrained.

Hobbit Day
- the birthday of the hobbits Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, two fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's popular set of books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

National White Chocolate Day
- White chocolate was first invented by Nestle in Switzerland in the 1930s and distributed in the U.S. in 1948.

Native Americans Day
- celebrate Native Americans' Day through learning from educational resources that focus on the traditions, culture, and background of Native Americans. It is a day to celebrate the heritage of Native Americans and for both native and non-native cultures to unite so the many aspects of native culture can be shared.

Pledge Across America Day
- Pledge Across America is the nationally synchronized recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in schools.

National Centenarian's Day
- To 100 year olds and all of those even older, we celebrate — on this day particularly — your remarkable achievements.

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September 21st is... World Gratitude Day, Miniature Golf Day, International Day of Peace/Peace Day, National Farm Safety Day for Kids, National Pecan Cookie Day, Pause the World Day, World Alzheimer's Day, Croissants Debuted (1529), Get Out Of Town Today Day, National Concussion Awareness Day, National Doodle Day, National Surgical Technologists Day, National New York Day, Biosphere Day, Telegraph Pole Appreciation Day, Spring Day / Student's Day (Argentina), Jeans for Genes Day (UK)

MORE (3rd Friday): National Tradesmen Day, National POW/MIA Recognition Day, Constitution Day/Pledge Across America, International Grenache Day

PLUS - interesting books to read and free printables, paper crafts, kid crafts, activities, and coloring pages...

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World Gratitude Day
-- A time to celebrate your existence, passions, local heroes, relatives, friends and all the little things that bring joy into your everyday existence. First celebrated in 1965, it was later officially adopted by the United Nations Meditation Group and is recognized each year as a day to show appreciation for all things, big and small. Source

Read: Secret of Saying Thanks
-- Perhaps you'd like to know a secret, one of the happiest ones of all. You will surely find it for yourself one day. You'll discover it all on your own, maybe when you least expect it. If you've not yet discovered the secret of saying thanks, it's waiting for you. The secret can be found in the sunrise offering promises full for the day ahead, or in the gentle shade of a tree sheltering you from the hot rays of the sun, or on the rock offering rest from a long walk.

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Miniature Golf Day
- Garnet Carter was the first person to patent a game of miniature golf which he called "Tom Thumb Golf" in 1927.

Pause the World Day
- stop for a few moments today and give your attention to humankind, the animal kingdom, the environment and for peace on Earth.

International Day of Peace
- dedicated to peace, or specifically the absence of war, such as might be occasioned by a temporary ceasefire in a combat zone. It is observed by many nations, political groups, military groups, and peoples. The first year this holiday was celebrated was 1981.

World Alzheimer Day
- a day when the Alzheimer's Association joins with organizations and people around the globe to raise awareness about Alzheimer's and its impact on our families, communities and nations.

Croissants Birthday
- The word croissant brings to mind a flaky, buttery pastry often served with coffee, or perhaps filled with cheeses or meats in its savory incarnation.