..Monday, Monday...

Every Monday is my day off. With all of my children in school, I get to go out to lunch with my girlfriends, get my hair done, go to the movies, whatever I so choose...NOT!! I have been asked this question no less than 20 times since the kids started school, "so, how nice is it that the kids are in school all day?" With so many kids at home for so many years, I kept thinking, "oh, life will be so easy when they are all in school, I will paint and read and take time for myself!" , if I had only known how erroneous my thinking was! that time is here, and I am feeling just as busy as ever, and actually reading less! So what do I do??? Here is a little peek into my mondays...

Let me start by showing you some beautiful pics of our house!!! It is a a house for all seasons...I absolutely LOVE our home and community...

Here is the house in the spring, once all the leaves have come out...

Here it is last winter (today is a beautiful 50 degrees, with a bit of a warm up coming, so no snow for us, at least for a while!)

Here is the house in the fall... (yes, those leaves do need to get cleaned up!)

I love our home, it is a wonderful place to live! Now, here is my answer to the question "how is it now that the kids are all in school?" Truthfully, with a home this big, and with 5 acres of property maintenance, I wish the kids weren't in school so much!!(and I wish they didn't have so much homework!) I need them to help me with....

cleaning the leaves out of the pool! and blowing the leaves off all the decks! (Dale does the yard)..In the winter we need help with bringing wood in, and snow..in the spring with planting flowers and a garden, in the summer, the pool..lots of work to be done in our "all season" house!

Inside stuff needs to be done daily, like...Cleaning the bathroom after they all have bathed and brushed their teeth and hair!

Cleaning my office after they terrorize it looking for needed school items and after getting dressed for school in it!

Cleaning the kitchen after breakfast!

Cleaning the laundry room up after they have thrown everything around looking for the exact hat/ mittens/ coats/ socks/ shoes/ clothes that they want!

So what did I get done on this leisurely Monday after the kids all went to school?? I cleaned the kitchen!! and parts of the rest of the house...(all laundry is washed and in their baskets, so I guess it was a productive monday!) Here is a nice shiny kitchen...enjoy, because in one hour they will be here and it will not look like this!

I am finishing my post today on tuesday, and I want to laugh...I spent a few hours at the school volunteering, did a few errands, more laundry, some office stuff, and cleaned some leaves from the pool, and will anticipate the remaining housework to be done by friday, just in time for the weekend and then, you guessed it, ANOTHER monday! So are my days easier now that my kids are all in school?? well...if they were all in school when they were 2 or 3, yes, but now they are all big, and I could really use some help!!