• first official day of summer!
• finishing one of (hopefully) many summer reads
• photography lesson
• impromptu Skype conversation
• getting my many school worksheets in order
• getting this e-mail from my husband to start off the day: "In class today, we had to speak for a couple minutes about an important person in our childhood/life.  So, I chose you.  This is what I said (in Arabic, of course!): 'An important person in my childhood was a girl named Jenna.  I met her in elementary school.  She has a small family, she has 2 brothers, a father, and a mother.  She likes photography and singing.  Throughout her whole life, she has enjoyed working with children, so now she is a teacher in an elementary school; the same elementary school in which we met.  She is, naturally, beautiful and fun to be with.  She has blonde hair and green eyes.  In high school she became my girlfriend, and one year ago we got married.' After I said that we got married, my teacher was very excited and started clapping, and then the whole class was clapping!  It was pretty funny. So, I think about you everyday, even in another language!"