Favorite Day of the Year, 2022 Edition

Olympic National Park, Washington; photo by the author

Today, the day before Thanksgiving, is my favorite day of the year. Each year I ask my team to share their favorite days of the year. It’s become a fun team-building tradition. Here are the results from this year (again omitting a fair number of people due to vacation, etc.):

• Thanksgiving (9)
• Saint Stephen’s Day (Boxing Day in some countries) (5)
• Christmas Eve (4)
• Saturday before Memorial Day (4)
• Christmas Day (3)
• Day before Thanksgiving (2)
• Diwali (2)
• Halloween (2)
• Closest Saturday to Saint Patrick’s Day
• Easter
• First child’s birthday
• Friday before Labor Day
• Labor Day
• My birthday
• My wedding anniversary
• New Year’s Day
• New Year’s Eve
• Patriots’ Day
• Saint Patrick’s Day
• Saint Joseph’s Day

* This person takes a family vacation each summer.

Happy (day before) Thanksgiving!