Blue Monday

Why is it that anything that can go wrong will go wrong on a Monday? It's as though Monday says "Oh you had a good weekend huh? Well enough of dreaming, come back to reality!" And then continues to slap you in the face with every moomish that he (or maybe it's a she given the mood swings) has up her sleeve. But we humans are resilient. No matter what Monday throws at us, we find a way to move on and eventually Monday is over and we'll have survived. I'm sure you all have your blue Monday stories... Here's mine:

The day started off well: I wrote, completed and published a blog, which is something I haven't done in a long time. It felt great. And then Mzo (my son) woke up and I thought ok let's do this... only to find out he peed on himself so his pj's, sheet and mattress were wet. So I had to wash all that after having changed the bedding just last week. Fabulous. As we were outside Mzo was picking the tomatoes and throwing and kicking them coz to him they're balls. And so I decided let's just pick all the ones that are ready and put them in the fridge. Everything seemed fine after that.

Fast forward to the afternoon. I really didn't want to go outside so I decided to do an activity with Mzo. I'd seen an activity in his old Sabbath School lesson books on making stars. I thought this would be a great idea... only the book doesn't tell you HOW to make them. So I improvised. Cut out some star shapes from newspaper  stuck it together so the stars are a bit thicker. Then I thought let's make our own paint with flour, water and salt. I was sure I had orange food coloring in my cupboard. Alas! It was orange essence. Big difference! But we continued and painted our stars with our flour paint. That will make them nice and sturdy.  I showed Mzo how to use the paint brush to paint and he was doing great. Well, that is until he decided this paint brush thing was just not working for him. He decided he was going to use his hands. And that he did. So there went the goo from hand to star.  I guess he found the squishiness quite fascinating coz after that he forgot about the stars and smeared the flour mixture all over his hands. Lovely! More cleaning for me on top of the sink full of dishes and the dusty floors before having to start on supper. 





Nap time was filled with screaming, but that's an everyday thing so nothing new. So as he started dozing off I lay beside him and the next thing I knew,  I was waking up. Wait a minute! What?! Yep, I fell asleep for a whole hour and a half. The time now was 16:33 and I had done absolutely nothing on the house. But I guess the nap helped because I got everything done in no time and supper was just 30min late, but still delicious.

After all that drama, guess what... Monday was gone... but she'll be back next week. Don't let her get you down with her tricks. Just carry on because soon a new day will come, filled with its own interesting surprises. It helps to know that all things work together for good to them who love the Lord. Sometimes it doesn't feel like it, but I don't have to feel it to know that it's true.