Photostream not staying in sync across my devices

I've had this problem repeatedly ever since I first started using Photostream, and nothing I do prevents it from eventually happening.
On my iPad and my iPhone it shows I have 84 images in my Photostream. On my MacBook Air it shows I have 28 photos on my photostream.
Basically my iPhoto seems to keep 'loosing' images in the photostream. I've gone in and deleted all photos from my photostream, then manually add a handful that I want to keep in there, after which all my devices appear to be in sync...
Effectively after a few months, When trying to go into iPhoto to check on some photos, I will again notice that my iPhoto is missing several photos that my iPhone and iPad both have. I have repeated the process of removing all photos from Photostream, then re-adding them 3 seperate times now, and in the end they eventaully always end up out of sync...
All 3 devices are regularlly connected to Wifi & they are all signed into the same Apple Id... None of the items in questions are videos...

Log out of iCloud in the System/iCloud preference pane and disable Photo Stream in iPhoto's Photo Share preference pane. Then log back in and re-enable, respectively. See if that will jump start Photo Stream on your Air.
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