15 years after Dr. King’s death President Ronald Reagan signed a bill into law making the third Monday of January a national holiday celebrating the birth and life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It took many years for Congress to decide to celebrate the holiday. In the years leading up to the official decree many African-Americans celebrated the birthday themselves with a few states declaring King’s birthday a state holiday. The bill was finally passed by both the House of Representatives and the Senate and was signed into law on November 2, 1983.  The first national celebration of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday took place January 20, 1986.

Each year on the third Monday of January, schools, federal offices, post office and banks across America close as we celebrate the birth, the life and the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  It is an occasion for joy and celebration for his life and his work toward nonviolent social change in America and the world.

We had wonderful conditions for our snowtubing event tonight. The slopes were really fast and without wind relativ mild conditions. Alot of fun for our cluster as well as for all other clusters who came to this fun event from the greater Boston area.

    

  For more pics please go to snowtubing 2011.

Last Sunday we went ice scating at the Frog Pond in Boston downtown. We welomed one aupair to our cluster as well as had to say good by to another. We had a great time with lots of sunshine to enjoy the scating in this wonderful park in Boston. The hot chocolate with the yummi donuts  were delicious. Too view more pictures go to Ice scating 2011.