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.
