Today we have some fascinating holidays to celebrate ... Awkward Moments Day and Forgive Mom and Dad Day. Seems appropriate considering that, as parents, we put our kids in some awkward moments. It's our job of course. Our parents did it to us, we have to do it to our kids. I'm trying to think of anything awkward that I've made my kids do recently. Life has been pretty boring over at our place, so I guess I've got to start working harder and making life awkward and embarrassing. :)

According to USA Today, today is National Napping Day! Don't know about you, but I could sure could use a nap today!

People who regularly don't get enough sleep are usually most affected by the lost hour, said Timothy Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic's co-director of the Center for Sleep Medicine. People who are sleep-deprived might struggle with memory, learning, social interactions and overall cognitive performance.
Some advocate that napping could help. 

I am down with that! Naptimes could be very useful today. Probably not while I'm on the information desk though. That might be frowned upon. Or would it? I could put a little bell at the desk and you could ring it when you need me. I would quickly pop up from under the desk. Easy Peasy.

If you can make it throughout the day, today at 4pm we have Tail Wagging Tutors and at 6pm we have Minecraft Monday! Yipppee!

Today is a day to celebrate your name! And the library has books for that. Go to the non-fiction number 929.44 and find plenty of information about your name.

My name:
Catherine - Pure. Clear. Innocent.
Ann - Favor. Grace.

How fun! Why not look up the meaning of your name?

My daughter's name:
Leila - Born at night. (I don't think she was though)
Jane - Gift from God. 

My son's name:
Jack - God is gracious.
Martin - Warrior of Mars. Warring.

In other news ...

This week's storytime theme is Chinese New Year. This year is the year of the pig, so we had some really cute piggy books too. Its fun to celebrate different cultures, even if its only in tiny little ways. ​

This Monday is our monthly Young Librarians group. This time I think we're going to try and create a newsletter to promote the group and promote books. I think it'll be a blast. Hope to see you there!

This week is also Lego Club. I expect great things from everyone!

It occurred to me at some point that blogging regularly at the beginning of the week over blogging regularly at the end of the week makes way more sense. If I was going to tell you everything that was going on this week, it would make more sense to tell you before it happened rather than after it happened.
That's okay though. Only took me a year to think about that. :)

So like now I can tell you that this week's storytime theme is YETIS!
We had our Toddler Time (2-3 years) today at 10am, but we still have Tuesday at 10am for Preschoolers and Thursday at 10am for everyone. Join us! Its a blast and this week you can find out "Are We There Yeti?" 
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And today we are going to have Minecraft at 6pm. We are still having a blast with Minecraft, so I say come join us!

Tonight is our first monthly Makerspace open hours! Play with Miss Jill with all of our gadgets. Build, create and play. What could be more fun? 

Tonight its all things color! ... the science of color. Doesn't that sound fabulous? Come and join Miss Valerie as we explore the science behind colors.