I have been wondering lately why I hate Mondays, and I have figured it out. Now I don't want people to think I am a weekend grinch or something, because I adore weekends. I love knowing that Mike will be home, that we don't have a schedule, and that we can just enjoy family time. However, it seems that every single weekend the house goes completely to pot. Somehow I manage to keep it clean all week long, but when the weekend rolls around, housework is thrown out the window. As a result, I spend all day Monday cleaning up the weekend mess. I'm not posting this looking for some great answer to my problem-I know that answer. I know that my job isn't a 9-5, weekends off job. I'm just wondering if I am alone, or if this is normal for a young mother of 2 to want to enjoy a free weekend (even if it means a harder work day Monday)?
Now that my first weekend of the New Year turned out the same as all the rest, and my Monday has been awful, I want to make a resolution to be better about the weekends. I want my Monday's to be the start of a wonderful week, not the day I wish didn't exist. Wish me luck!
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I think it depends on you. My house goes to pot all week long and by Saturday I can't stand it any longer. Part of the difference is I don't have kids and the other part is I work during the week. By Saturday I want the house to shine and spend all day doing so. That leaves Sunday to feel the pain from my vigorous workout of cleaning. I think Sundays are my hardest days because it means the start of another week and my house is already starting to go downhill. I can't imagine what will happen when we add kids to the equation.
I have felt the same way time and time again but took a big step to change it. I finally told Shawn how terrible it was and that growing up in a home that Saturday was cleaning day, I asked if there was any way we could do something on Saturday morning to rectify my trauma. He realized that this work is so much easier when I have help and then I'm not so grouchy later on. Not to say that we don't have some weekend where he just really doesn't want to clean and I understand, but then Sunday's and Monday's are hard again.
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