I don’t know about you, but Monday is the hardest day of my week. Really, it starts on Sunday. We go to Church early, meet up with extended family for lunch, and meander home sometime around dinnertime. After the kids are in bed I prep and pack backpacks and lunches for our homeschool co-op on Monday.
I love our co-op, but boy is it hard to get up at 7 am Monday morning. My kids find it difficult as well. This past Monday, my middle child – the child who is impossible to wake up – would not wake up. I had lights on, in and out of the room, etc. for 30 minutes and still nothing. I ended up packing her clothes and carrying her to the car in her pjs and then dressing her once we arrived at our destination.
This kid is seriously hard to wake up. She once fell asleep in the car, I carried her into piano lessons, she slept through the lesson, I put her back in the car, stopped at a friend’s house to pick something up, came home, carried her inside to the couch, and she stayed asleep for another hour! And, yes, she always transferred well from the carseat to her crib when she was an infant.
On Monday, we finish up our school around 3 and head home. Once we get him I have work to do. I’m office manager for my husband’s company – check out his awesome website! -, and Monday is the day for invoices, paying bills, hours tracking, and any other fun number related bookkeeping items I can come up with. I take a break to make dinner and hang out with the kids until their bedtime and I usually finish up my work by 10pm.
It’s quite the Monday!
Luckily, the end is in sight. I have 3 more co-ops and then we’re done for the year and I’ve already switched to a new group for next year that meets on Fridays. Which will work out way better. Friday is usually our “do something fun” day and since my kids are convinced that co-op isn’t school (because how could science experiments, public speaking practice, art, history, geography, math, and latin with friends be school?), Friday can be a very productive “fun day” for us every week.
And my Mondays can be a slower start to my week. Since I’m just not a Monday person.
Anyone else struggle with Mondays? What do you do to make your Mondays a little easier?
Mondays are my nemesis! Even if we didn’t have to deal with the transition of “back to homeschool” mornings on the kid end, it’s the same for me! Ugh! I wish I had some magic answer for how to make it better. We just sometimes adjust times – start later in the day. I tend to think starting late is better than not starting at all!
Like I told you on FB, I love Mondays but I can see why you would not with a schedule like that! For me, it means one kid leaves and I have an opportunity to get a lot of work done early in the day (I also work at home for my husband!). I think switching your co-op day to Friday is going to be great for you! A slower start to the week sounds like exactly what you need.