Expensive Days, Cheap Days, Free Days

Books By Patti Liszkay
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​"Equal and Opposite Reactions" http://amzn.to/2xvcgRa
and the sequel, "Hail Mary" https://www.amzn.com/1684334888
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​EXPENSIVE DAYS, CHEAP DAYS, FREE DAYS

​EXPENSIVE DAYS, CHEAP DAYS, FREE DAYS

...Continued from yesterday:
       The weekdays begin for my grand daughters with the hilly half-mile walk to school, 

...during which they're usually joined by some neighborhood friends.

     Tom and I usually also started our day walking with them,

...it being such a pleasant walk through the neighborhood,

...even on the occasional overcast, jungly-looking January days.

      Each morning on the kitchen counter there would be left a list of that day's after school activities, which Tom and I had taken on the duty of overseeing during our two-week visit. 
   On the girls' first day back to school after the long weekend (see previous post https://www.ailantha.com/blog/california-dreamin-on-an-icy-ohio-day) ​I was looking over that day's briefing on who needed to be where at what time. 
      "Do you have any free days this week?" I asked my grand daughters.
       "Not today, for sure," replied my ten-year-old grand daughter. "Today is an expensive day."
       "An expensive day?" I said.
      She explained. "If  a day with nothing to do is a free day, then a day with a lot to do must be an expensive day, Wednesday might be a free day,"
       "No, I have soccer on Wednesday," her younger sister piped up. "But that's all we have."
        "So Wednesday is a cheap day," she said. 
        Thus we planned each day's configuration according to whether it was an expensive day, a cheap day, or a free day, working in time for homework,  

...helping with chores, ​

...baking some personalized pies,

...or brownies,

...or pizza from scratch.

    And even on the most expensive days there was always time for some reading,

...and some chilling.

     There were a few  half-day dismissal days, which were almost as good as free days, which gave us time to do some shopping,      

...or to go out for lunch a couple of times to Mandy's,

...a cute diner with such a classic-looking interior,

​...that, according to the wait staff, movie scenes are occasionally shot there.

 My grand daughters love to to go to Mandy's to sit at the counter,

...and drink milk shakes.

      Expensive days, cheap days, free days,

...they  were all priceless.