A THURSDAY FEELING

By Dan Miller
October 11, 2007

My 8-year old McKensie woke up Tuesday morning in a playful, buoyant mood.
Now that's something I simply can't relate to at 7:30 a.m.
I usually need an hour or two before I can get beyond staring at the floor.

As McKensie was pulling the brush through her hair, and doing a little dance to some inner music running through her mind, she said to my wife, "I've got a Thursday feeling!"
Now, remember this was on Tuesday.

If she's so happy, I thought, why a "Thursday feeling"..... why doesn't she say "I've got a Friday feeling."
Isn't Friday usually the day when people relax after making it through the week, and prepare for a fun weekend?
It doesn't work that way with my daughter.
For now, Thursdays are her favorite days.

Here's why.
That's the day she gets to meet with her "reading buddy" at school.
She spends time with a pre-first boy, listening to him read, and then reading books to him.
It's an activity she has looked forward to since she herself was a "pre-firster" and was a "reading buddy" to a big 3rd grader.

I'm not sure, but I think she considers her little "reading buddy" sort of like a pet.
I suspect that -- after reading with him -- she'd really like to feed him a biscuit and take him for a walk.
But that's not part of the agenda.

So why, you might ask, did she get a "Thursday feeling" on a Tuesday?
Well, Tuesday is now apparently rivaling Thursday in her ranking of favorite days.... and can easily trigger in her that whimsical mood.

Tuesdays she gets to sing with her school choral group.

And, not only that, but on this particular Tuesday her teacher was going to announce which role she would get in her upcoming class play.
Thus, the "Thursday feeling" on a Tuesday.

Ain't childhood magical?

As for me, just getting an "Another day feeling" makes me feel pretty good.

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