After having a fun weekend with
Chloe, she left on Sunday afternoon to go home. We had had such fun
all weekend, playing and doing things that a little eight year old
loves to do.
On Monday afternoon, I get a call
from Chloe. What are you doing Poppy? “Oh I'm just sitting here
waiting on you to give me a call this evening. (Silence) Then I asked
her, what are you doing and her reply is, “I don't know!” which
then prompts me to start to dig out of her what she has done for the
day. Did you have much homework? “Yes, was her reply, and I have
already finished it.” Did you get to play outside today? No, but we
went to the gym to do some exercises. This dialog goes on for several
minutes, me asking the questions and her supplying the answers.
It then gets quite on the line and
then she says, Poppy how many minutes is it until next weekend!
Well it is quite a few minutes until
next Friday. Poppy, how is that when a minute is so short of a time.
Well there are sixty minutes in and
hour and twenty-four hours in a day so that is 1,440 minutes in one
day, times four days, that will equal 5,760 minutes. Wow! Poppy that
is way to long to have to wait until I see you again.
Well Chloe, it is better if you
just think of it in days rather than minutes because four days is
shorter than over 5,000 minutes.
Is it ok, if I call you everyday
until Friday, sure that will be fine with me because I will get to
hear your sweet voice everyday.
So on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday I got my “Special Call,” from her and we talked about
what she had done at school for the day and what she wanted to do for
the weekend. On Thursday she was so excited because she knew that it
was only one more day until Friday.
It was also a long week for Poppy
but then she would have a long weekend with us and an extra day off
from school on Monday for a school holiday.
I can't wait until then to see what
she will want to do then.
