National Husband’s Day {700,000 Strong, So We’re Sponsoring It!}

When I boldly declared on November 22,2013 that in three short months this club would be sponsoring a new national holiday, I missed one critical component: Time.  

My lack of it and a need for more of it to be dedicated to lobbying for a holiday set aside to celebrate our amazing husbands.

Following my initial meetings with a planning committee about this special day, my thought was, How hard can it be?  There’s National Peanut Butter Day, National Noodle Day and even National Sock Day.  

Surely, it would be easier for a community of nearly 700,000 women to get a holiday named after husbands around the world.  

Then I realized something.  All those “Days” are recognized by few other than the brands and marketing teams promoting them.

Growing up, I remember my excitement every year as we got closer to June as I knew we’d be celebrating Children’s Day.  It was circled on my calendar and I was beyond overjoyed each year when that day finally arrived.  

Although our parents poured an extra heaping of love and encouragement on us that day, what I really loved about Children’s Day was the candy.  In our household, health food reigned supreme.  But on Children’s Day, there was no shortage of candy for this sweets-loving body of mine.

So as I began researching how to make National Husband’s Day a reality, I looked a little closer at the origins of Children’s Day.  Did you know, for instance, that it dates back to the 1800′s and proclamations observing the day have be made by government leaders around the world for the past 200 years?  Children’s Day even predates Mother’s and Father’s Day.

The more I thought about it, the less I wanted National Husband’s Day to be some rushed and made up “holiday” with nothing behind it but a great marketing campaign.  Our husbands deserve better.

With so many negative connotations associated with the role of husband these days, we want to celebrate the true stand-up men around the world.  So I hope you don’t mind, but as the founder of this club, I made a decision on behalf of our community.

The HWC team will work extremely hard in the coming year to lobby various government officials until we can find at least one who will proclaim the January 22nd National Husband’s Day.  Then we will all work together to create a day incredibly special; one that recognizes a minority sector of the population who truly deserve our admiration.

So if you are in support of us moving full steam ahead with sponsoring a national holiday celebrating our husbands, print a copy of this certificate, sign your name and give it to your husband.  Let him know that next year, when National Husband’s Day is recognized as an official day of celebration, it will be because of how well he’s loved you.

His love is what made you join this community.  His honesty, integrity and character is what makes you want to stand up and celebrate him.  And because of him, and so many others like him, we are joining together to make sure husbands around the world are recognized.

Are you in?

I’ll keep you updated over the next six months as to our progress and come this time next year, I’m looking forward to seeing lots of confetti – at your house and mine. 

Until tomorrow…make it a great day! 

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Fawn Weaver

Founder at Happy Wives Club

Fawn Weaver is the USA Today® and New York Times® bestselling author of Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage, adopting the same name as the Club she founded in 2010. The Happy Wives Club community has grown to include more than 900,000 women in over 110 countries around the world. When she’s not blogging or working on her next project, she's happily doting over her husband of nearly eleven years, Keith.

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