When I picked up my mail this morning, a package was waiting for me in the lobby. It turned out to be a slightly late birthday gift from my sister Jessica. She had sent me a really interesting book about the Romas in Europe (a topic that I feel very strongly about – I will write more about it at some point), a very pretty notebook, and two bookmarks that she had made with photos of Stockholm on one and of our summer house on the other. Tack så jättemycket min söta syster!!

(I think the idea was that she would give it to me this summer, but in the end, I never came to Sweden so I couldn’t get it.)