National Puzzle Day “In life’s kaleidoscope, we’re each a different piece of the puzzle.” Sarah Reinvalde

National Draw a Dinosaur Day “In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs – I was huge into dinosaurs.  I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or filmmaker or anything like that – just a paleontologist.  So I would draw dinosaurs.”  Jhonen Vasquez

National Hot Chocolate Day “Because the best gift in life, is just having someone to drink hot chocolate with.”  Tessa Shaffer, Heaven Has No Regrets

“May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.”  Peter Marshall

“Turn your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.” Maori Proverb

“My friends, love is better than anger.  Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair.  So let us be loving, hopeful, and optimistic.  And we’ll change the world.” Jack Layton

“Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills thy will eventually require for learning to read.”  Marilyn Jager Adams

“But you know happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling