How to Monday

Tomorrow is Veterans Day, which for the adults and the boy-child in this family means a day off, and which for the girl-children means school day, but not just any school day, Visiting Day, which is when the adults and boy-child find they do not actually have any day off at all but sit attentively for many hours in first and third grades, respectively, switching on and off so as not to miss a thing.

But that's tomorrow. Today was Monday. And whatever you think about Mondays is not what that boy-child thinks about Mondays. And whatever you think

about Mondays
or about children who wake up before the alarm clock
in their parents' beds because they always wander in
and jump up smiling four inches from your face

the boy-child pulled my eyelids open to say with complete delight it's Monday!!!!! and that's how I woke up but I couldn't be sad because who could be sad in the face of so much Monday-based happiness? Monday-based happiness is a 6am unicorn, but Monday in preschool is show-and-tell day, and you can't argue with the goodness of that.

So today was Monday, and it was show-and-tell day, and it was Monday with a whiff of Friday, because everyone at work had that jumpy sense of not coming in tomorrow.

And that's how you Monday.

Tomorrow is Tuesday, which as we've established is fake-day-off day, Visiting Day, but it's all good because the girls are super excited. The real trouble is Wednesday, which will play like Monday, and won't be friendly at all. But we don't have to think about that yet, just boys who wake up smiling at the glory of what could be at the beginning of a Monday.