How do you sort your Photostream Events in iPhoto?

I have my photostream photos automatically imported to iPhoto on my iMac - so I have lots of "events" with names like March 2013 photostream or July 2014 photostream. In each of these events, there are often a whole group of photos that belong together - like a birthday party. There are also some "one off" photos that just one or two shots of something I wanted to photograph (like a couple of pictures of a rainbow, or a picture of a recipe that I like to have on hand so that I can shop for ingredients). I am not sure how these are supposed to be handled. I can leave them all in photostream and add key words to the photos so that I can search for them perhaps (but then I have to manage a lot of key words. I cannot just add a key word "Birthday Party" since I attend many birthday parties. I would have to use a key work like "Bob's 30th birthday party" unless I wasted my search to turn up every picture ever taken at any birthday party!) i can create an event and call it "Bob's 30th birthday party. That seems to work ok - although I'm not sure if I should be doing this. As for the other photos, like the two of the rainbow and the one of the recipe, I don't know what to do with them. I can leave them in photostream with keywords. I can create an entire event called "Recipes" although the range of dates on such a folder might be quite wide since I am always saving recipes, which means that when my events are sorted by date, my new recipes will appear in an early event along with the very first recipe I ever took a photo of!
I would love to know how others arrange their events . Do you ever create an event based upon a subject (My Cat Missy) even if the photos span a good deal of time? Or do you leave Missy's photos spread over many events depending upon what date you snapped the photo??? Have you ever completely emptied out a monthly photostream event (for example, let's say all your photostream photos for the month were taken at one wedding, so you moved them all into a single event called "Kate's Wedding."
See what I mean? Back in the windows days, when admittedly, I took fewer photos, I would create a folder for each big photo taking event (christmas, weddings, birthdays, a lovely walk in the park) and I would create just one folder with the year "Photos from 2008" to put in all the ones and twos photos that don't really belong with anything else. I also had a single folder with pictures of my cats and one that had photos of recipes. I added to these photos anytime I had a picture of my cat or a recipe to upload.
What does everyone recommend? Sorry for being so long winded. I cannot find any info on "how to sort or manage monthly photostream event photos" so perhaps I am the only one with this issue.

1. There is no right answer. There is no "should". There is the way that makes sense to you.
2. You can keyword photos with Birthday party, but also Title them with Bob's 30th, that gives you two ways to search for them
This might give you some ideas:
I use Events simply as big buckets of Photos: Spring 08, July - Nov 06 are typical Events in my Library. I use keywords and Smart Albums extensively. I title the pics broadly.
I keyword on a
Who
What
Where basis (The When is in the photos's Exif metadata). I also rate the pics on a 1 - 5 star basis.
Using this system I can find pretty much find any pic in my 50k library in a couple of seconds.
So, for example, I have a batch of pics titled 'Seattle 08' and a typical keywording might include: John, Anne, Landscape, mountain, trees, snow. With a rating included it's so very easy to find the best pics we took at Mount Rainier.
File -> New Smart Album
set it to 'All"
title contains Seattle
keyword is mountain
keyword is snow
rating is 5 stars
Or, want a chronological album of John from birth to today?
New Smart Album
Keyword is John
Set the View options to Sort By Date Ascending
Want only the best pics?
add Rating is greater than 4 stars
The best thing about this system is that it's dynamic. If I add 50 more pics of John to the Library tomorrow, as I keyword and rate them they are added to the Smart Album.
In the end, organisation is about finding the pics. The point is to make locating that pic or batch of pics findable fast. This system works for me.

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