Never used to, when 'im indoors worked in the Big Smoke, earned pots of money and Monday meant kids at school and peace and quiet at home for me. Now it means up at the crack of dawn to prepare for the school run whilst putting washing in the machine and unpacking the dishwasher so as to leave my house tidy before I head off to my place of work which involves making someone else's house immaculate and shiny clean.
In the midst of all of this, my youngest is sobbing that she doesn't want to school and I'm trying really hard not to join in the wailing that I don't want to go to work either!!! Thankfully, Monday doesn't last all that long and before you know it, it's Tuesday, then Wednesday (which is known as hump day in our house as it's the middle of the week and not because it's 'im indoors lucky day!) and then we're on the homeward run to the weekend.
The only downside to my coping strategy for the week is that I'm constantly wishing my life away and not enjoying an awful lot of it at the moment. The weeks and consequently months, are whizzing by in a grumpy blur and life is too short to exist in this fashion. Something has to change around here, or before you know it I'll be a grumpy old lady looking back at my life and all the things I should have done and enjoyed along the way but I was too bogged down in my misery to see any of it. So maybe my new Monday Mantra should be to seize the day - even if it is just a mundane Monday but even those mundane moments have elements to treasure so onwards and upwards my friends........
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