MY PARENTS ARE TIRED...

A couple of years back, I saw a little boy wearing a t-shirt that said, "My parents are tired". I laughed as the little boy was about 18 months old, around the age where babies get very good at walking (or should I say running) away from their parents :)  I wish I could find that shirt.  I have to say, by the end of the day I am exhausted...heck, there are days that I start exhausted!  But then I took a few minutes today to look at this past week, an average week for my family, and this is what I was involved in:

• work week of 32-34 hours
• 14 bath time routines with the kids (including 3 nights where I washed Boo's hair)
• 21 meals (although I'm not much a cook, so the meals are pretty simple and we actually ate out for 2 of them)
• 35 bottles
• 49 diaper changes
• 10 outfit changes on Brandon, 20 bib changes (plus 2 extra outfit changes for me when the bib and burp cloth didn't quite do the trick)
• 10 trips to Bailey's school (actually...Tom did 6 of these this week, thanks Babe!)
• 5 loads of laundry  
• 2 runs with the dishwasher
• Swept the kitchen floor 7 times; the hall, bathrooms and dining room twice
• Mopped the floors 
• Vacuumed 3 times
• Dusted the furniture and cleaned the bathrooms
• Cut the back and front yard
• Put down weed killer (which didn't work with a heck)
• Water the flowers twice
• Updated the blog 3 times
• Spent 2 hours searching coupon databases
• Two trips to the market
• One wonderful visit with my closest friend
• Two trips to the park
• One softball practice
• One softball game
• One morning of hunting for finds at garage sales
• One trip to Costco
• A great morning at church
• One trip to the zoo

So...whenever I wonder, "why am I tired?"...I just need to sit down and think about my week (as this is the list that I was able to come up with, with just the few stolen minutes I had sitting here at the computer...right now, as I type, with Brandon bouncing on my knees :).  Tired?  You bet.  Blessed?  Absolutely.