AmazonMidwife

The camel is wearing a back brace chez amazonmidwife. It's the addition of soccer and O.W.L. to the mix. They seem quite straw-like; teaching the O.W.L. class is only a 1 1/2 hour commitment every Sunday and soccer consists of 2 hour long games on Saturday (that, when the stars are right, can happen at the same time) and an 1 1/2 hour practice on Thursday evenings. The issue is that I have to get up @ 7:30 AM on Sunday to get ready and awake, which precludes (or should) staying up late and watching movies with the 'Savant (our version of date night). And by the time I get us all home from practice, I'm too tired to clean OR prep for the boys' history class on Friday. So, I get up earlier Friday to get that done.

Consequently, since I consider all time before 9:00AM to be 0-dark-thirty and all time after 10:00PM to be my time, I am underslept and less-than-grounded. And my house is messier than the norm, which subliminally irritates me. So I am quite the lump of grump and surliness.

But there is light at the end of the tunnel. Both soccer and the O.W.L. class end in 3 weeks, so things should be back to normal mid-May. 'Til then, throw chocolate at me and then run away.