Saturday

It's rare to have a nearly perfect day. But today (Saturday) was one of those days.

For starters, the weather was perfect. The temp stayed at 79 with a light breeze and was mostly sunny. Gorgeous.

Then, our subdivision had its annual Community Garage Sale. It seemed like everyone on our block participated. People were laughing. Children were riding bikes. Our street was nearly a parking lot with all the busy buyers. We loved the buzz.

Dan and I didn't have much to contribute to the yard sale, but we did throw together a Bake Sale for Morgan. Man, was that fun. I whipped up the famous Nestlé Tollhouse cookies (soft and chewy, of course), helped her paint a "Cookies 25 cents" sign and set her outside to rake in the dough.

Within the first 10 minutes of her sale Dan told me that I had better make another batch. They were flying off the table. We had lots of yard sale foot traffic, so that helped.

Dan used the opportunity to teach Morgan some math. It went something like this:

Dan: "Morgan, how many quarters are in one dollar?"

Morgan: "Twenty-five cents."

Dan: "Um, no. That's how much a quarter is worth. How many quarters are in one of these dollars?" He holds up 4 fingers.

Morgan: "Two cookies!" she says, jumping up and down. She's very proud of her answer.

Dan: "Okay, let's try another tactic. If someone buys ONE cookie from you and gives you ONE dollar, how many quarters do you give them back?"

Morgan: "One."

Dan: "No..."

Morgan: "Two."

Dan: "No..."

Morgan: "Three."

Dan: *sigh* "Yes, three. Okay, honey, nevermind. You did a good job."

And with that our little entrepreneur scampered off with her friends, having already sampled the product and needing to run off her sugar high.

*Grin* And this is only the START to summer.