First 15 minutes in here were jarring.

I’m literally in the shirt I slept in, hair thrown into a braid.  This after my intended replied to my “I’m tired …”  with “Yeah, you look tired.”

Don’t you love that?

Even worse, is when someone gives you an unsolicited “You look tired.” Which, basically translates to “You look like crap today.” In Amandapedia.

Anyway, I KNEW if I didn’t just run inside the house (ok, it was more of a shuffle) – throw shorts on and tame my mane and grab the laundry, it was NOT going to get done.

So I’m still half asleep as I enter and am greeted by what sounded like a Chuckie Cheese.

Radio blaring, children playing a land version of “Marco!” “Polo!”  The assault on my tired little ears was … as I said, jarring.

Here’s one of the little ones – (I blurred her cute little face because I don’t think pictures of kids should be randomly thrown up on a stranger’s site.)

Little Red Riding tu-tu.

And another tyke in the background.

And a rare sighting of my laundry lady in the back.

Then it suddenly and blessedly got very, very quiet.

Ahhhhh.

So, why am I so tired?

Well, certainly wasn’t because I scrubbed the entire house as planned yesterday.

I did something I haven’t done in YEARS.  Friday my honey and I stayed up until 5 flipping a.m.   By choice.  We had a lot of fun, but I have got to tell you, my body does not recuperate the way it used to.

I’m old now!

Well, too old for that shite anyway.

And I knew it would happen, I knew I’d only sleep for a few hours and then answer the maternal call of my tired body.   There were animals to be fed, walked – there was food to be made.  And yeah, ok, then I binge watched the Real Housewives of New York.  (Shame is washing over me just typing that.)

Then … CRASH!  I ended up sleeping away the rest of the day.

(Not before burning the roof of my mouth on a pizza that my refreshed, newly awoken honey prepared for us.)

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So here I am, clothes in dryer now.  Polystyrene coffee to my right and … new children in front of me.

But, to their credit,they’re being very well-behaved.

Hozier is belting out ‘Take me to Church’ in the background.  And in 10 minutes, I’ll be folding and then returning to my nest.

I’ll do something constructive around the house when I get back to assuage any guilt of planning another nap later.

It IS the weekend after all.