This morning I was suddenly awakened and sat straight up in bed. The alarm clock glowed 6:36. Yes, I had slept in and that meant that the rest of my house would be off to a late start also. After being up all night with an upset baby, I threw my head back into my pillow.

“Don’t worry,” I hear in the darkness from the other side of the bed. “I’ll take him to school.”

My early morning husband had already been up checking his work emails and getting his day underway. As he left the room, my heart was racing and I just couldn’t go back to sleep.

Sitting in my bed my thoughts wandered to one of my favorite books form my childhood. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, by Judith Viorst.
Alexander the main character wakes up with gum in his hair, trips on a skate board while getting out of bed and drops his sweater into a sink of running water. All of this happens before he can make it to breakfast and his day doesn’t get any better from there. In the end Alexander feels better because he realizes other people have bad days too.

Laying in my bed and watching as the first rays of the sun light the sky I thought to myself, “My day is just beginning, get out of bed.” So I did, grateful I can choose to start over today before I ever really got started. Here’s hoping your day started out better than mine. Have a good day!