New Holiday Declared! ...Sorta.

Remember that post PKU Awareness Month? 

Well, there have been many different days that people would call "PKU Awareness Day".

I merely picked one of those days and made it my PKU Awareness Day.  Except I made it a month.  Because finding something to do to celebrate PKU everyday that month was fun!  It was something fun to do. 

Now Congress has officially made a PKU Awareness Day. Seriously.   

It's on December 3rd.

So make sure you celebrate it!

On npkua.org they have a list of 10 ways to celebrate it, and bring awareness to the world.  You can check those out on the website if you really want to.  A lot of it is "organize a dance-a-thon to raise money for PKU Awareness".  And those ideas are good too.  But I'm going to give you a list of 10 fun, little things you can do: 

1. Since PKU is represented with blue- wear AS MUCH blue as possible!  Maybe spray blue hair coloring in your hair to make it blue too! (Make sure ll wash out)  Or you can go the easy route and wear a blue shirt.
2. Make an ALL PKU meal for your family and /or friends.  :)
3. Pass out PKU Stickers to everyone you meet. (And make sure they wear them!)- or just wear PKU stickers yourself.  I don't know where you'd get stickers... maybe you could make them!
4. If you have PKU you can have fun and experiment with your formula.  (In my case I'd turn it into a smoothie)
5. Make a t-shirt.  Put anything PKU related you want on it.  You can just print out a design on some special paper that allows you to iron on the design.  If done correctly this will last a long time. :)
6. Post fun facts, or pictures about PKU on Facebook, twitter, tumblr... whatever you guys use. 
7. Put up a poster in your window.  Make sure to use blue!  
8. Throw a PKU Party and serve PKU snacks!  
9. Write a song about PKU.  (Or a parody... those work just the same)  I want video footage if you do this one though!
10. Make your dieticians happy keep a diet record for the day and see how you do.  Are you eating too high or too low?  Make adjustments.  :)  Then email your dieticians a thank you note.  They use a lot of chemistry and it's hard. ;)  Or you could just skip to part 2 and email your dietician.

Although many of these ideas are geared towards those with PKU you can celebrate if you don't have PKU.  I'm going all out this year.  I promise!!!  I want to hear about what you guys do for this year's PKU Awareness Day!  Email me pics, comment in the box below, give more great ideas for next year!  Just make sure you celebrate PKU Awareness Day!