Here we are again: another Monday… Mondays are hard, aren’t they? And even harder after a holiday. It was a real treat to have the weekend start a day earlier last week, and as a proud American, Independence Day is a favorite holiday of mine, so it was a special weekend. Even if you’re not patriotic, how can you not enjoy a day that includes hot dogs and fireworks? And it’s summer, which is always nice, so it had to be a great weekend. And then comes Monday.

As happy as I was last week to get my weekend started on Thursday, I now find myself wishing that today was the holiday. Or that the Fourth had been on Saturday or Sunday, so at least we’d be off on Monday. If it were up to me, I’d prefer to extend the weekend rather than start it early, and I wonder how many people would agree. Holidays like Memorial Day and Labor Day that are celebrated on Monday, no matter the date, work so much better for me. Starting the week on a Tuesday makes it go by so much faster, and alleviates the anxiety that casts a shadow over Sunday evening. The ringing of my alarm on Monday morning gives my stress level for the week a huge leg-up. Maybe next Sunday night I’ll really go to bed early. Ha!

Here’s an interesting bit of trivia: the back-to-work blues hit on Monday at 1:42 PM- I guess getting back to work after lunch on Monday is like a double-whammy. I wish I had some sage advice for eliminating the Monday Blues, but I don’t. The most comforting thing I can share is to keep in mind that almost everyone goes through this- we are all in this together. If that helps at all, I don’t know if it’s about misery loving company, or the knowledge that it’s not just you. And by the time you read this, you’ll be one day closer to the weekend. You’ll make it- I know you will!