If you are a homemaker or a homesteader, you probably love Mondays. I know I do. When you work in your home and on your home, making it clean, organized and fruitful, Mondays are the best day of the week. You wake up in the morning, in your work place and ready to hit the ground running on your never-ending chore list....but without the distractions that are often present on Saturdays and Sundays (even though they are nice distractions).
I love our weekends and I love the activities my husband and I find ourselves involved in. But I'm often glad once Sunday night comes around and I know tomorrow is Monday. This is a bold contrast to how I felt when I worked outside the home. I hated Mondays, because I knew I had to leave home the next five days in a row, for most of the hours I was awake. I can't think of a single job I held where that fact did not depress me just a little bit. Some jobs were worse than others, but even the best ones left me longing, just a little, to be home enjoying the house I was working so hard to pay a mortgage on. In truth, I'm probably the ideal personality type to work from home.
Today I am back to the blissful routine of cleaning, hanging wash, composting, cleaning chicken coops, and continuing to lay drip lines for the front yard landscaping. It's quiet and the pace I set my work at is my own. I will work hard, but I am working for myself, and that makes all the difference. Perhaps people who own a shop or restaurant feel the same way...going to work on your own property is a sweet feeling, no question.
Mondays I always breathe a little bit easier. I get organized, get clean, and enjoy the sweet routine of householding until Friday comes along again, when I'm ready for another break in the routine.
It's hooray for Monday -- every Monday -- here at the Hot Flash Homestead.
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