Happy Summer Holidays!

Look at the beautiful cupcake Lauren T. gave me last week!  Thank goodness I snapped a photo before
Mr. C. thoughtlessly ate a petal.  (No appreciation for the hours of work that go into projects like this.)

I hope you all have a wonderful, fun-filled summer holiday and return rested and rejuvenated in the fall!  
Enjoy your summer reading - I just finished The Reckoning by Kelley Arnstrong (Book 3) in the Darkest Powers trilogy and loved it!  An amazing series,  if you enjoy a bit of the spooky stuff, which I have since I learned to read.  Her adult novels are excellent also, but definitely content for grades eleven and up.  Those you would have to get from the public library.  They don't have the same characters as her young adult trilogy, but there is a bit of overlap.
Today, saying goodbye to Pauline and Sayaka, and having said my farewells to Ayumi earlier I've been thinking what an amazing time you girls are growing up in  - when you will be able to keep in touch with these new friends, no matter how far away, on facebook or other social networking sites in ways I couldn't have imagined when I was in high school back in the late '70s and early 80's.  SO COOL!!  There is so much out there for you, and I, for one am so excited and hopeful for your futures.
But first, let's all have a wickedly awesome summer:)
And remember your sunscreen - melanoma is not cool.