Mondays. Everyone hates, Mondays and for the mornings, sure, I agree. But at 4pm-ish, I leave work, head home and enter:
An Empty House.
It used to be Tuesdays, and for awhile it was Fridays. Now since school gets out early on Mondays, that is when my children spend the day (or part of the day) with my in-laws. They get to play, and ride bikes, swim and spend time with their grandparents and I get two hours (sometimes more) of quiet in my house.
I can do what I want and watch what I want. Most of the time that means making dinner at my own pace while drinking a glass of wine, watching a few hours of West Wing, folding a couple loads of laundry. Sometimes that means I sit and mess around on the internet and do nothing for a couple hours. Nobody looks at me wrong if the laundry is still there when they get home. No one minds if dinner is leftovers. I get to cook because I like to cook, for once, and I get to do the laundry simply because I hate to see the pile on the couch. I can blog, or read blogs, or just talk to my friends on twitter without feeling like I'm neglecting my family.
What I'm saying is, Mondays rock.
(BTW, last night I made leftovers manicotti: chicken, spinach, garlic, mushrooms, tomato, cream cheese, and cheddar cheese all stuffed into manicotti pasta with vodka sauce and the last couple slices of mozz and cheddar cheese baked on top. Sometimes I really love to cook)
(and some day I'll get through West Wing)
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3 comments:
I love quiet time. I get home before my husband, and it's one of my favorite things. We all deserve times like that :)
This is Mondays for me, too, and I love it. For 4 hours in the morning, Tory has a babysitter and I can run errands, go to appointments and on really special days, just sit in a coffee shop and be by myself. The only thing better would be spending those 4 hours alone in the comforts of my own house.
Though, now with a new baby due any day, I have a feeling my glorious Mondays alone will be no longer for a while ...
Glad you get to have a few Monday hours to recharge yourself for the week. So important when it comes to being a mother, running a household, working, etc.
oh good grief, being ALONE in my own HOUSE is something I never knew I would dream of but I dooooo....
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