Monday: The Last Day of the Week

"Dear Monday, I hate you."

That was my Facebook status last week and I'm tempted to make it my status again today. I was baffled by my pure contempt with this day. In good reasoning, I think Mondays are the days in which I should feel so much potential swelling because it's the 'beginning' of the week...It's the first day of seven and instead of feeling like it's a new start to a new week, I feel as though Mondays should actually be the last day. Let me elaborate...

Mondays are the first day after the weekend and the weekends can go either way for us: They are either busy with some activity or another, or they are completely lazy. This past weekend was a rather busy one for us, but it was combined with a couple of lazy spells in the lull between events and the turn-out for a weekend such as this one is a very messy house come Monday morning. Now this is a phenomenon that truly only occurs during the weekend.

The first thing I would like to wake up to is a clean kitchen. I find it relaxing to awake before my kids, get my first cup of coffee and if I'm lucky, I can even squeeze in a bagel for breakfast. If I'm even luckier, I can leaf through a magazine while I'm enjoying said coffee & bagel.

But on most Mondays, I'm not waking up to a clean house, let alone a clean kitchen. Beach paraphernalia litter the livingroom, dirty dishes are all over the counters and laundry is lying in heaps in miscellaneous corners (which I never understand, since there is a basket in almost every room of the house for laundry to go into!). Now it's not so disgusting that a little tidying can't help it, but it would be rather embarrassing if we had a surprise visitor.

In the end, Mondays end up being the biggest cleaning day of the week, because the weekends don't leave me much time to keep up and the 'last day of my week' ends up being the day I have to catch up. So really, I think that no matter what I do, I'm always going to despise Mondays. I'd rather enjoy my family on the weekends and just keep on hating Mondays...At least I get to love Saturdays & Sundays.