...5760 days.......

We hit a milestone this week. (Well, it was three weeks ago......I've had issues with our computer.) We participated in our 10th high school graduation. During the past 5760 days I have experienced:

• 10 "first day of kindergarten".......not to mention the other 22 "first day of school" days!!!! (and I'm not going to work hard enough to figure out "first days" multiplied by how many were going to school that year)
• 5 (I think) fifth grade breakfasts--early morning the last week of school!
• ....staggering thought!!!!! 64 days of parent-teacher conferences!!! ...again.......I'm not going to do the math. But WOW!!!! I might have to, just because that would be a very interesting statistic!
• 10 Junior Proms........but they were fun! 
• 8 "parent" dances at those Proms.......one of the neighbor boys found me after I had danced with Scott and said, "I need to dance with my other mom". Yes, he still has a special place in my heart.
• 8 4th/5th grade plays
• this ones' a guess.....about 23 high school musicals: Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, Brigadoon, Fiddler on the Roof, Pirates of Penzzance, Lil' Abner, Music Man, Into the Woods, Sound of Music, Calamity Jane, Wizard of Oz, Once upon a Mattress, Beauty and the Beast, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers...obviously, some were performed more than once and I'm pretty sure there were some years in there where we did not have a performer...........but you get the idea.
• the audition for each of said musicals and then the costumes to go with them!! 
• numerable times accompanying vocal solos and ensembles, flute solos, violin solos, trumpet ensembles at festivals, concerts, and competitions.
• and I'm not even going to try to guess the number of band and chorus concerts we have attended! ...or dance recitals...or piano recitals (though they didn't have piano in school. But we did have dance!)
• I'm also not going to try to guess the number of football games, water polo games, track meets, swim meets, cross-country meets, or wrestling meets we have endured. I say "endured" because of the stress, the anxiety, and the pain at some of the lopsided scores. I do know we had only one varsity wrestling meet and that was enough to prove to me that I didn't mind that he never again wrestled varsity. Talk about exponential stress!!!
•  then the end of season banquets for all those various extra-curricular activities
• 3 Sterling Scholars
• 10 LDS seminary graduation ceremonies
• 12 years of full-time missionary service
• 5 temple weddings
• a major "good-bye" every year for 10-12 years straight (someone off to college one year then leaving for the mission field the next year..........that one just about did me in!)
• our 17 year old going off to basic training for the National Guard
• that same 17 year old then 19 going off with said Guard to Iraq for a year

I suppose this is a little inaccurate since not all of these things happened on one of those 5760 school days...but that's life, right??? And it's been a good life. Even with the struggles and occasional heart aches we have been so blessed! Thank you to those who made these 5760 days a possibility!!! (I have to admit though........I cheered when we finished with our last "worlds' fair" and the last 5th grade "state report"........I think I'll stop there. I could name a few other things.........