Friday Fizzle

I AM TIRED - just spent! It's Friday and lately on Fridays I am home with my two darling sons while Neil is at a basketball game. His team (C-team) actually has the best league record of any basketball team (boys or girls) at the HS. So, he's doing well and enjoying himself, despite his recent ankle injury. Anyway, back to me . . . so I work and my boys go to Grandpa's house or Aunt Ann's house and they play and play hard all day long. I get them at about 5pm or so and they are exhausted. So, they fall asleep on the way home and many times they stay asleep ALL NIGHT. So, right now, we've been home for about 40 mintues and they are both zonked out on the couch. I eat my ever so delightful dinner on my own (PB&J, string cheese & chocolate milk - hit all the food groups at least, even the chocolate group!). So, then what? I could go sleep too. It's Friday night and I am tired - maybe I should sleep. This week I have been getting up earlier trying to get our family back on a better schedule. Since Christmas we've been pretty lazy about wake up time, bed time, etc. So, 6:30am is early for me and I did it every day but today. I woke up when the alarm went off, but that alarm went off 40 mintues after Paden woke up and said, "Mama, need ask you something" Well, Paden wanted to watch Thomas at 5:50am, but I politely declined his request and made him lay down with me - he immediately fell back asleep. So, I finally roll out of bed about 7am and get everyone ready to go. I was doing so well this week with getting up early - not rushing - 4 out of 5 days is pretty good. So, what is making me so tired all the time? I wish I knew because I would FIX IT! Neil doesn't have a game on Saturday, so we'll probably do lots of "resting". Sounds great! Right about now, I hear a warm blanket and a soap opera on DVR callin' my name! Here's my sweet sleeping boys: