Rainy Days and Mondays

"Rainy Days and Mondays" ... a song by the Carpenters that comes to mind this morning. Except that they don't get me down (as the song says). I am looking out the window at the steady stream of rain and what I see is a lawn that doesn't need to be watered ... a 'quiet' (is there such a thing as quiet in my day-time world of kids??) day inside, without the hassles of sunscreening, bathrooming and all the organizing it takes to walk out the door with a bunch of kids ... it feels like a day off from the summer heat of last week ... a days reprieve from mowing the lawn.