On Ground Hog Day every year we have a party.  I set up a card table in my Front living room (the "pretty" room) and I use my formal linens and table wear.  We light a fire in the fireplace and set the ambiance with a glass of wine and candles.  Then I make Hamburgers and hot dogs and homemade potato salad, chips the works! We have an indoor BBQ! Then after the food we watch "GROUND HOG DAY" with Bill Murray.  Hilarious!  It's lots of fun and the kids get a kick out of it.  I sometimes have them make table favors for everyone.  One year it was groundhog bookmarks, another year it was groundhog pins, another sunglasses for eveyone from the Dollar Store.  this year we all bought little somethings for eachother and had to agree to keep it cheap.  It also had to be a summer theme.  My mom bought the guys (dad and dh) brightly colored disposable razors and bought the kids plastic cups with a beach scene and candy (like they needed that!),  For me she bought two little dishes that are starfished shape to hand onto for summer cookouts on the patio.

I bought her a little jar candle in watermelon scent, a crossword puzzle book for my dad to do outside on their deck, and for my DH I bought him a Snickers bar for after his run during lunch break.  Now he runs all year but oh well. It was all I could do on the cheap.

So, it is a lot of fun. If you haven't started a Ground Hog Day tradition with your family do it for next year!  My mom started it 12 or so years ago one winter when we were feeling blah.  I came home from work (was living with them then) and she had started dinner and when I walked into the house I was like ok, so you cooked tonight but where its it? She told me to go sit in the living room.  I was like huh?  There it all was.  We had so much fun we do it every year and sometimes we don't do the formal thing but use paper plates and the typical picnic table cloth.  The point is to make it fun and change it up from year to year.

I hope someone here will do it next year and post about it.  I'd love to hear of your adventures with Ground Hog Day.  Happy Spring!