Tuesdays

Setting: 5:00 Tuesday Morning, one sleepy boy wanders into parents room where they are sleeping soundly.  Things are about to change. . .

Ryan:  Mommy, I don't feel good.

Mommy: (being not quite awake yet to fully comprehend)  "Hi, honey, why don't you climb up here and rest with mommy till it is really morning time"

Ryan:  Ok.  (climbs in bed)

Ryan proceeds to be quite awake and wants to chat.  Mommy, not so much.  (She's not much of a morning person)

Mommy:  Ryan, why don't you close your eyes and rest now.  You don't want to be tired and grumpy later do you?

Ryan: Mommy what day is it?

Mommy: (racking her brain to think of what day it might be in the fog of morning brain)   Uuuummmm, Tuesday?

Ryan: "Ok, on Tuesdays I choose not to be grumpy.  Can we have some breakfast?"

Mommy: (now awake because of the last comment and laughing. . .which woke up daddy. . .which was ok, because daddy needed to get up for work anyhow)  Alright, you win.  Breakfast.

Epilogue:  Mommy needed several cups of tea to get her going that morning (she doesn't like coffee).  Ryan took a nap later that day.  But let's take a page out of Ryan's book and today "choose not to be grumpy!