No rest for the weary

I have a friend who posted on her facebook status "There should be a big, red, dot on my wall with the words 'Bang head here'."

I hear you dear, sweet friend, I hear you.

Today was one of those days. We have a nest of sparrows living in our roof. Of course it's the part of the roof right by our bedroom window. Of course they start chirping at 4 am. Put that together with the sunlight streaming through the curtains and you have two wide awake children at 5 am. That makes me very short on patience.

It doesn't help that Squirrel doesn't let me sleep in. He needs me in the morning. He doesn't give a fiddler's fart about me for most of the day - but come morning he needs me. The odd time husband will try to get up with him. It only ever lasts about 10 minutes before Squirrel is pounding the door calling "Mama! Maaaaaama!"

So I'm sleep deprived.

I'm yelling a lot.

I feel like a horse's behind.

I'm so glad that grace is for Mamas too.