Mrs Carter said, “Our 5 year old Jeanie took to do getting out at 5:30 each morning and puttering around just enough to wake the rest of us before climbing back to bed. Her reason was always the same – she had to see if there was a surprise.
Finally we told her firmly that she must stop and that there wouldn’t be any surprises until Christmas, which was months away.”
“I wasn’t talking about about living-room surprises”, Jeanie said through her tears. “I was talking about like yesterday morning if was raining, and this morning real Summer’s here, and tomorrow morning I’ll probably find some pink in the rosebuds.”
Jeanie still gets up at 5:30 each morning.
I don’t know who the original author of this is.