Monday Mornings

Often I'm so wiped out on Sunday evening after waking up at 5:30 or 6 in the morning after a Sat. of working hard in the yard, preparing for church and Sunday dinner by making homemade roll dough, preparing a lesson, getting children ready and peeling potatoes for the pot, going to church and fulfilling those responsibilities then making dinner and serving it, that I go to bed with the kitchen looking like this:

So what do I wake up to? That's right, the kitchen looking just like I left it. There are no magic fairies for me that come and miraculously take it upon themselves to clean up the messes left from the week before. It simply looks just like I left it when I fell into bed.
(The above picture is the morning of July 8th, after coming back from our 4th of July camping and getaway week.)
The wonderful thing is though, when the family wakes up, their magic fairy proves to have made her way having taken two hours to get the kitchen looking like this:

(Now that's more like it. *sigh*)

GOOD MORNING SUNSHINE!!