Memorial Day is soon upon us, and as you may imagine, it has a fresh & heightened significance to our family this year.  With this in mind, this book caught my eye ... and heart.  It is a story about a child whose father is being deployed.  The boy wishes to give his father something of himself to make the separation more tolerable, so he traces his hands, measures the distance from one hand to his other hand and cuts a piece of yarn that length.  He sees it as a "paper hug."  Anytime his Dad feels lonely, he just has to wrap the paper hug around himself and feel his son's love.

The child center where I work has agreed to share this project.  We are making paper hugs and sending them to a unit about to deploy ... to any soldier who wants one, as many as we can make.