Lucky Day Light Saving Linky

Hope you remembered to spring forward.  Thought I would share some St Patrick's day love with some links.  St Patty's day is on Saturday the 17th this year.

I liked the Lucky to be Blessed Print from
Giggles Galore and Eye Candy Creative Studio

17 ways to Bring St Patrick's Day Into Your Home

St Patrick's Day Printables - Photo Booth Printables

From 2011
The Chuck and the Diva

Leprechaun Beard - oldie but goodie

Shamrock Template for Lucky Shamrocks

Wordy Wednesday

Just sharing one of my letter board sayings.

Linky Love

Lenten Rose from Nonna

How the importance of Play can determine your future career

Church of England asks parishioners to give up plastic for Lent

Couple hides emoji's in travel photos - I spent way too much time trying to locate the emoji's in these really really stunning photos. It is a lot harder than you think

Linky Flight

Much Like A Flight of Beer.  I thought I would do a linky flight. Some things are better read together.

Reading and Testing of Kids
Encouraging a Love of Reading in a Culture of Assessment
Dear Schools, Please stop the AR Test and Reading Logs
Are We Thinking About Reading Comprehension All Wrong

Parenting or Adulting
My Adult Sense of Justice - love, love, me some Teacher Tom
10 Insights about Remarkable Parents from a Family Therapist

Self Care
Running a Mile Every Day for a Year
What Self Care Really Means - oh so good and it isn't chocolate cake and bubble baths

GUNS 
Why do you like/own a Gun?
Gun Reform: Speaking the Truth to BS, Practicing Civility and Effecting Change - Brene Brown really spoke to me in the camp of not wanting to allow guns for everyone and allowing guns for some.
When Students are Traumatized, Teachers are Too

Wordy Wednesday

Sometimes, I just want easy not complicated and difficult.  Can I get an AMEN!

Olympic Linky Love/ President's Day

Adam Rippon to Work the rest of the Olympics for NBC

Booking It - February

I am linking up to Modern Mrs Darcy's Quick Lit. Check out what everyone else is reading. My reads have been few and far between. 

The Major's Daughter by J.P. Francis

This book is set at Camp Stark a German Internment Camp located in New Hampshire.  The camp housed 150 captured German Afrika Korps . The prisoners worked as loggers bring out pulp for the Brown Paper Company

The story is fiction but Camp Stark did indeed exist. However, the characters in the book are all fiction. The story is about Collie the Major's daughter. The Major is the also the commander of the Camp Stark. Collie aids her father by being a translator. Collie finds herself falling  in love with  a imprisoned German Soldier. Overall, I enjoyed the book but I did find myself in the last 1/4 of the book jumping ahead to the ending.  But ever the rule follower, I ended up going back and reading the last 1/4 of the book. Many of us are aware of Japanese Internment Camps but few us realize that there were German Internment Work Camps in the United States during the war.  I loved the author's attention to detail and how they described how the US soldiers tried to show compassion and fairness to the imprisoned German Soldiers.  The history was fascinating to me.  I wish the story was a bit more compelling.

This was an enjoyable quick read.  I was once again taken in by the "Hot Picks" table at my library. My son is taking French this year in school and my husband's grandmother was French so I could relate a bit to that. It was interesting memoir and I liked the recipes interspersed throughout.