There Will Be Change

In between the worry and scheduling-one doctor wants this, another wants that-of cancer, the daily work of life goes on.

The daycare kids are squeezing as much life as possible out of these final days of daycare summer. "Daycare summer" are those weeks between when school ends in May and when it begins again in August. Because I have several teaching families the number of kids in the daycare drops for the summer. The rules relax a little and we do a few things that are just too hard with a larger group of younger kids.

Hannah and Andrea are home all day from school, but after spending their entire 8 and 6 years of life here, they know the rules that can be stretched and the rules that don't bend. And the ones that can be pretty much ignored.

The kids are swimming twice a day, morning and afternoon. Pool life makes snack time more fun. They can eat sticky melon and popsicles and let it drip all over knowing that they'll be jumping back in the pool. We've made tie-dye t-shirts and a misty summer day was a good excuse to bring out the umbrellas and play in the rain.

Daycare Summer is nearing an end. It's especially poignant this year because I know after last Friday we will never be the same. We'll be changed. I'm not sure how, but I know there will be change.