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The Monday-ist of Wednesdays
Life is messy, and I wouldn’t have it any other way (well, mostly)
The first of the month was the first day for quite some time where I didn’t have an immediate deadline for my client. So on those days, I like to decompress before I begin my following stack of articles and essays.
For the first time in nearly 15 months, all four of my children are at school simultaneously, all day long. A friend suggested that I take the week off and take time for myself; to revel in the quiet and decompress from the longest March in history. A March that lasted nearly 18 months. Inexplicably, it is September. How did that happen?
I planned my day to write for even just minutes because it is so ingrained in me to write, and I cannot go a day without jotting something down, whether it is a reflection, an idea for another article, or writing for my clients. There is something soothing about the clicking of the keyboard or the glide of the pen against the paper.
I know that Monday is not everyone’s favorite day of the week. But for me, Monday is my day to reset. The day after whirlwind weekends of our kids’ activities, I feel like a pinball going from one activity to another. I usually do not have a case of “the Mondays” ever since I stopped teaching full-time and started staying home with my…
