I love making crafts with kids!  The craft in A Paper Hug was meant for kids to do.  Operation: Celebration is all about celebrating holidays long distance.  A cute idea for St. Patrick’s Day is to cut hand prints out of several colors of green paper.  With the fingers out, paste them on some paper, cardboard or a ring cut out of cardboard to make a wreath.  It will look darling as a door hanger or send it to a friend or family for St. Patrick’s Day with a cute note:

Here’s a wreath of hugs for St. Patrick’s Day!

Writing children’s books such as The Celiac Kid, A Paper Hug and Operation: Celebration, didn’t just happen.  I have loved to write since I was 10 years old.  My dad gave me a desk calendar — one of those that has 2 holes and one side has times of the day for appointments and the other side for notes.  It was a Christmas gift and I thought it was wonderful!  That very night I started writing about my day — events and feelings.  In Junior High School, we had a unit on poetry.  I loved it so I started writing little poems in this calendar, also.  I was also one of the very few who loved diagramming sentences.  I love how our English language is put together.  Then we learned how a good paper is written and, again, I loved the process.   Whenever my kids needed to write a paper, I just get a thrill of excitement to help them.  I have loved teaching them how to put together a great paper and am so proud when they receive the “A” on their papers!  Write something?  I can hardly wait!!!

December doesn’t have to be the only “big” month of celebration.  Each month has a reason to celebrate.   Whether you are Irish or not, celebrate “Green.”  Four-leaf clovers — shamrocks, leprechauns, horseshoes all represent good luck!  Join in the fun and send a good luck note with a shamrock to a friend.