Happy :) Day

Put a little smile on your face and make it a happy day.

These words popped into my brain when my youngest sibling was 3, maybe 4 years old.
I attached a snappy, toe-tapping melody to them, and I would sing this tune quite often.
It made her giggle.
Every. Time
& sometimes Youngest Sister would sing my lyric to me
& I would giggle.
Every. Time.

Those thirteen words have followed me through the years.
I’d pull them out and croon them loud and proud when my children were feeling the grumps
& I’ve used them on Older Brother multiple times.
Still do
& to this day, try as he might, he is stifling HAHA-s by the time I get to the second verse.

Yes.
There is a second verse.
It’s the same as the first.

! I love these words !
I love them so much I wrote a story.
The main character is a smile named Smile who goes on a determined adventure to hand big grins to the world, one person at a time

& Smile’s motto is … ? …

Yep.
YaY.

So.
On this beautiful beginning to a lovely World Smile Day, I’d like to offer my simple sentence …

with a promise, it will be.

! !

Guaranteed.