Spilling Over

You know that your to-do list has spilled over when you wake up in a sweat at 4am to do it.
 
You know that the laundry job has spilled over when the piles you left on the couch last night are, sigh, still piles on the couch in the morning.
 
You know that cleanup duty has spilled over when you see that the areas that were neater just hours ago are back to their normal cluttered selves.
 
You know that the pasta you were cooking has spilled over when it suddenly looks as though you are boiling an albino volcano.
 
You know that your stress from last week has spilled over when you're sure that you relaxed a lot all weekend, but are just as tied up as you were before.
 
You know that your attempt at family improvement has spilled over when your kids are quoting things you said that you thought had gone in one ear and out the other.
 
You hope that a little weekend is spilling over, so that in moments of weekday stress, you can remember what it felt like to sleep a little later, rush a little less, listen a little more.