The Count Is On....

How do you calculate the number of days of your kids' summer vacation? Today is the last day of school for my older grandson -who will be a wise old-timer in the school game next fall when he returns there as big man on campus -a junior! Maya will be going into 4th grade and Kurtis, into 2nd -and neither of those seems possible to me to have gone by this quickly. Perhaps I'm not counting things correctly? Well, for me -about the only thing I do count would be the days, Monday thru Friday -which during the school term are "school days" and when their summer vacation begins, I count only those same weekdays then. So, by those calculations, today is Maya and Kurt's third day of their summer vacation! And thankfully, thus far today, we have had no major issues, no big fights, no whining, crying, moaning about life not being far. Sorry but I can's say the same for Day 1 and Day 2 though of their vacation time as both days, Maya got order to go to her room and "think about what was said (or done)" to warrant being exiled for a while! Part of the reason for the better behavior today though I attribute to the efforts of Miss Dawn (Kurt's TSS) who was willing to play "Hide and Seek" -in the house -with both kids. Kurt and Maya were totally enjoying this game although Maya sort of cheats a bit when she counts as she speeds her counting up to where the 30 seconds of counting turns out to be more like 15 seconds, or 20 tops. The only near calamity from their playing this game was the fact that all three of them did their counting out loud and it was interfering with some rather important counting I was doing -as I was counting stitches as I was knitting along, working on a "Feather and Fan" baby afghan! Don't believe that's a problem? You try counting in your head as you work each stitch -of 138 stitches on your needle -and upon hearing these other people counting loudly, see if it doesn't eventually throw you for a bit of a loop too! (And with this pattern -which does have a lot of little loopy-dos -the last thing I need it to come up with MY count being off! But the main thing through all of this is -for me -if the rest of the days of the kids' summer vacation proceed relatively smoothly -kind of like the past couple of days have been -I'll be a happy and very thankful Grammy! However, I do know from past experience, this is most likely going to turn out to have been pretty wishful thinking and that, most likely, will be something I really can count on!