Give Us This Day Our Daily Thread December 1st through December 31st 2025

[arielilane]

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY THREAD DECEMBER 1st THROUGH DECEMBER 31st 2025
Here we go! Our very first post in our very first Daily Thread!
However, CLICK HERE and read the practice Daily Thread. ​

Each day, I’ll drop in with a fresh post marked with the date so everyone knows exactly where to jump in. Then, when we wrap up the month, we’ll kick off a brand-new thread for January 2026. Let the daily fun begin!
Below is a list of things that happened on December 1st.
Of course, I knew all of these historical events, and I did not have to use Google to find them.
Did you know that on December 1st, 2025, I told a big fat lie? Can you find it?

1. 1955: Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat sparked the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott.
2. 1865: Shaw University, the first historically black university in the Southern United States, was founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
3. 1862: President Abraham Lincoln reaffirmed the necessity of ending slavery in his second State of the Union Address, ten weeks after issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
4. 1878: President Rutherford B. Hayes got the first telephone installed in the White House

Me at 3 years old with the same haircut I had when I was six. It looks like a melted, deformed Tupperware bowl was put on my head, and whatever hair was showing was cut. This is my dog. His name is embarrassing, but he was innocently named back then.
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Good morning, y'all and happy December 1!

Number 3 is false, correct statement:

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, not in 1862, and his second State of the Union Address was delivered on December 1, 1862, before the proclamation was issued.

Credit: History nut and help from wikipedia

 

[Kittybunny]

I hope all those in the US had a wonderful and restful Thanksgiving holiday.

For me, back to the work grind today after lots of relaxation, good food, and some Christmas decorating - grateful for the time and feel much more relaxed. Still have to put up my tree, but have lots of the other decorations out and placed.

I'm saying this "out loud" because I'm going to ask you all to hold me to it - I WILL NOT WAIT UNTIL DEC 23rd TO DO ALL MY CHRISTMAS SHOPPING THIS YEAR!

Haha...Happy Monday all!

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I WILL NOT WAIT UNTIL DEC 23rd TO DO ALL MY CHRISTMAS SHOPPING THIS YEAR!

You must be me.

I'm determined to get all mine done tomorrow online and hope that there's not a big delay in delivering.

But yes I'm a panic in the last week before Christmas type of person.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

A bit over 1am here and I just freaked out, something crawling over my white doona.

Calmed down when I realised it was only an earwig, I picked it up with a tissue and let it go outside.

 

[killarney rose]

Most of my shopping is online this year. For the first time, my stocking stuffers, even the candy are online. I’d say about 1/4 of my shopping will be in store. It’s just so easy to shop online and avoid the crowds and crazy drivers.

As far as decorating, there is no Christmas decorating done here before Dec. I need to get my fall decor put away this week. After that I will bring out Christmas. I never get in a hurry to decorate. The first week in January it’s all put away except blue decor with snowmen. That stays out through January.

 

[Gators North]

Is it possible to have more than one Polish name day? Found this online, although I’m Kasia for short.

 

[Fraize]

As long as we're posting some embarrassing photos, here's little Fraize playing with his Rock-Em-Sock-Em Robots set on Christmas Day, 1974.

May today bring you as much joy as Rock-Em-Sock-Em Robots gave me when I was 5 years old.

 

[Gemmie]

This is my dog. His name is embarrassing, but he was innocently named back then. ​

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OK, out with it, @Tricia. What was your dog's name, cuz I know you didn't name your dog Embarrassing. lol

 

[Gemmie]

And my one I was going to post on the last thread.
My parents didn't say it, but I have heard it was a thing.

"you'll be laughing out of the other side of your face" Not sure if there were more words to it.

Likely those other words were "if you don't knock that off".

 

[Gemmie]

A bit over 1am here and I just freaked out, something crawling over my white doona.

Calmed down when I realised it was only an earwig, I picked it up with a tissue and let it go outside.

ONLY?!?!??!?! ACKKKKK!!!
(The bug of my childhood nightmare (my t-shirt and panties were filled with them so much so that I looked like the Michelin man). I can NOT let them get near me!!!! And if one had been on whatever a doona was, it was likely too close to my body. I'd never sit wherever you were ever again for fear another one was going to get me.)

No can do. Give me a spider any day.

 

[Stunned]

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY THREAD DECEMBER 1st THROUGH DECEMBER 31st 2025
Here we go! Our very first post in our very first Daily Thread!
However, CLICK HERE and read the practice Daily Thread. ​

Each day, I’ll drop in with a fresh post marked with the date so everyone knows exactly where to jump in. Then, when we wrap up the month, we’ll kick off a brand-new thread for January 2026. Let the daily fun begin!
Below is a list of things that happened on December 1st.
Of course, I knew all of these historical events, and I did not have to use Google to find them.
Did you know that on December 1st, 2025, I told a big fat lie? Can you find it?

1. 1955: Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat sparked the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott.
2. 1865: Shaw University, the first historically black university in the Southern United States, was founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
3. 1862: President Abraham Lincoln reaffirmed the necessity of ending slavery in his second State of the Union Address, ten weeks after issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
4. 1878: President Rutherford B. Hayes got the first telephone installed in the White House

Me at 3 years old with the same haircut I had when I was six. It looks like a melted, deformed Tupperware bowl was put on my head, and whatever hair was showing was cut. This is my dog. His name is embarrassing, but he was innocently named back then.
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So there's a lie in this statement we're supposed to figure out?
What I know for sure is that it's Rosa Park day. I'll check the others.

 

[Dotta]

Is it possible to have more than one Polish name day? Found this online, although I’m Kasia for short.View attachment 627869

Yep.

A name has many days to celebrate.

But a person chooses ONE date,
usually the date closest to birthday

 

[Gators North]

Yep.

A name has many days to celebrate.

But a person chooses ONE date,
usually the one closest to birthday

Ugh. None of these dates is even close to my birthday. But if I had to choose one, it would probably be in April, because my grandmother was born during that month.

 

[Mo Thuairim]

ONLY?!?!??!?! ACKKKKK!!!
(The bug of my childhood nightmare (my t-shirt and panties were filled with them so much so that I looked like the Michelin man). I can NOT let them get near me!!!! And if one had been on whatever a doona was, it was likely too close to my body. I'd never sit wherever you were ever again for fear another one was going to get me.)

No can do. Give me a spider any day.

Doona is Australian for a quilt/duvet/comforter on your bed. A bit too close for comfort!

 

[Gemmie]

As long as we're posting some embarrassing photos, here's little Fraize playing with his Rock-Em-Sock-Em Robots set on Christmas Day, 1974.

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May today bring you as much joy as Rock-Em-Sock-Em Robots gave me when I was 5 years old.

I'd LOVE to play Rock-Em-Sock-Em Robots with you! I'd knock your block off!!! LOL!

 

[Dotta]

Catholics in Poland celebrate very important time in December.

It is called Advent.
(From 30 November to 24 December)

Advent is a time of joyful waiting for Christmas.

It involves spiritual preparation and reflection
and its symbol is Advent Wreath with candles.
There are four candles,
which are lit in turn on each Sunday of Advent.

During Advent
people attend a special Mass every day before sunrise.

It is called Rorate.

It comes from the first words of the Latin hymn "Rorate caeli desuper"
(Drop the dew, O heavens, from above)

Children bring beautiful lanterns to Church.

 

[Gators North]

A Polish Santa Claus.

 

[killarney rose]

DH and DGS lit the advent candle at our church yesterday .

 

[Tricia]

WOW, I am so impressed. You all are historians. My big fat lie? That I didn't use Google. LOL.
@Spy Versus Spy said "1135 England's King Henry I died. He had fallen ill seven days earlier after eating too many lampreys (jawless fish resembling eels). He was 66, and had ruled for 35 years."
LOL Darwin 1 human 0

Is this month's thread a new day every day.

I mean is tomorrow what happened on 2nd December ?

This thread is where we will post every day in December. The only thing I will do is make a post that says DECEMBER 2nd, and then the conversation can carry on however you want. At the end of the month, I will start a new thread with the new month, and it will be a new year too.

 

[Tricia]

As long as we're posting some embarrassing photos, here's little Fraize playing with his Rock-Em-Sock-Em Robots set on Christmas Day, 1974.

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May today bring you as much joy as Rock-Em-Sock-Em Robots gave me when I was 5 years old.

OH MY GOD YOU ARE SO ADORABLE. WHAT A CUTIE PIE