Monday, Oh Monday

Do you ever wake up feeling like you have a target aimed at your head?

  Not the kind that's going to kill you... its the goal killer kind.  Seems like on Mondays I wake up frustrated from the get go?   I ask myself, " Why do I always have such grand aspirations for my Monday's?"   I know that Monday is always a harder day.  Sometimes the kids are tired, or I am, or we were gone a lot and left things a little (or a lot) "undone". Things have to get back into order, they can't be left "undone".  Well, they could, technically, but that would result in one of those "Crazed Mother of 5 children...a homeschooler...News at Eleven!!" stories.  So, alas, instead, I've had to figure out how to factor "Monday" into my life. 
Keep in mind that it doesn't even have to be a Monday...sometimes Wednesday is a lu-lu too, or maybe a stray Thursday might sneak up on you....beware.
Unfortunately, there is not a miracle cure for "Monday"...and while I could probably come up with something totally fake to sell you for $ 19.95 and make a really tacky infomercial about it...I decided against that.  After all, you're my friends, and I like you, and most of you are too smart to fall for the infomercial scheme anyway.  
So, rather than come up with some fancy shmancy  plan for success, I'm just going to share with you what's worked for me.  As usual, I'll be candid, so don't expect any profound statements. Rather than call this Monday for Dummies, as the popular series of books, I'm going to call this...


 "Monday" For Your Inner Smartypants 


First, I  Plan Lighter.  For example..

• Plan a lighter school day 
• Only 2 loads of laundry  (or whatever is less than a typical day)
• Make  easy to prepare meals or a meal based on leftovers from Sunday. 

Second, I Plan to Fail at something.  


What I mean by that is, have a few things on my to do list that can wait another day, or two, or month.   Why? Because on these types of days "something" always comes up. 

• Somebody gets sick
• That darling toddler is having meltdown issues and needs extra "attention". 
• Johnny needs an extra 700 hours help on his math because all he learned on Friday leaked out of his head over the weekend.
• Name your own disaster

Third, I Plan to Keep Things in Perspective.


The first definition of "perspective"...simply, it means "an optical glass, a telescope".


Let's say I'm at the Seattle Space Needle and I pay a dollar to look through one of those telescopes... Yes, I could see, but my vision would be limited to that place that I've turned the focus onto.  It doesn't mean that the other things aren't still there waiting to be looked at, I just can't see them all at once.
The same goes for my "Mondays", I have to remember what my goals are for that day.  It doesn't make my day a failure because I didn't get to everything. It doesn't mean that I forget about accomplishing my goals that were outside my perspective for that day.  All it means is that I need to remember to adjust my perspective.  I need to  remember that if the day ends, and I didn't get to "see" all I wanted to,  just like my one dollars worth of time on that telescope, I can put a few more quarters in and try again in the morning. 





"It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness." Lamentations 3:22-23