Comments on: 5 ways to make over your Mondays https://lauravanderkam.com/2017/03/5-ways-make-mondays/ Writer, Author, Speaker Tue, 17 Apr 2018 14:00:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: lauravanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2017/03/5-ways-make-mondays/#comment-34318 Tue, 14 Mar 2017 20:27:49 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=6559#comment-34318 In reply to Kristen | The Frugal Girl.

@Kristen – I think the sleep issue is really the worst part of it. The difference between Sat night-Sun morning to Sun night- Mon morning can be huge.

]]> By: lauravanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2017/03/5-ways-make-mondays/#comment-34317 Tue, 14 Mar 2017 20:24:22 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=6559#comment-34317 In reply to Elodie.

@Elodie- I completely agree! Coming back from leave is hard enough. Not having all your frequent flyer perks would make it even worse!

]]> By: Elodie https://lauravanderkam.com/2017/03/5-ways-make-mondays/#comment-34316 Tue, 14 Mar 2017 18:42:52 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=6559#comment-34316 I was super super excited to hear the news about being able to put your elite status on leave, and really hope this catches on with other hotels and airlines. As someone who travels a lot for work (~25 trips last year, several overseas), the little perks of elite hotel and airline status really really help make things easier (healthy food in the airport lounges, economy plus seat so I can work on my laptop even when the person in front of me leans back, food in the executive lounge so I can easily skip going out to dinner and work, etc). The idea of losing all of that and coming back from maternity leave, when I MOST would need and value the ease and time savings these perks give me, with nothing has given me actual nightmares. I am celebrating this step!

]]> By: Jennie Evans https://lauravanderkam.com/2017/03/5-ways-make-mondays/#comment-34315 Tue, 14 Mar 2017 16:29:20 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=6559#comment-34315 I try to use Friday to get as much done as I can so that my weekends aren’t spent worrying over Monday. It’s coaching season for me with long Mondays and Thursday’s. I get home around 9 or 10 pm those nights and I find that simplifying my wardrobe and house chores just makes life easier. I meal prep/lay out clothes on Friday nights as well. Now that my youngest is 9, I am reaping those long sections of time for reading and leisure on the weekend. Still no sleeping in though.
🙁 Now its sitting up waiting on the older children to come in from “going out.”

]]> By: Kristen | The Frugal Girl https://lauravanderkam.com/2017/03/5-ways-make-mondays/#comment-34314 Tue, 14 Mar 2017 02:09:31 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=6559#comment-34314 Mondays don’t really bum me out too much, probably because like you, I work from home (perfect for an introverted homebody).

And for the most part, I don’t dread the work that I do, which helps a lot!

I did dread Mondays more when my husband had a super early work schedule, because then we had to hit the hay really early on Sunday nights and then we were back to the early alarm on Monday morning. But these days he sets his own hours, so our alarm rings at a much more sane time!

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