Is Winter when we see the ground-hog??

When I woke up yesterday, it felt suspiciously like a Friday. It wasn't until I was well into getting ready for work that I remembered it wasn't. How disappointing! Then again last night, as I crawled into bed, I was struck by how long this week has felt. How much I have been stuck in some GROUNDHOG DAY fog for the last two weeks--and how much it's wearing me down. Every day....things are

The SAME!

I work from 7:10 a.m. until JUST before 5:00 p.m. Then, with work clean-up and making of dinner (and cleaning up of dinner) I am ready to settle into 'being HOME' around 6:45 or 7:00. By 9:00 I am ready for a book, and my bed, and my Joe--and by 10:00, ready to sleep (even if I don't actually FALL asleep until 11:00). At 5:15, it's time to rise again....and it repeats, and repeats.

It feels like I have work babies here ALL the time. Those 4 hours a night that they are NOT here--and the 2 hours in the morning of the same....it's not much, is it? They are super sweet, and so loved--but I am wondering of other people feel like they live at work and are hardly ever RESTING at home....or if that's just me? I wonder about their parents.....do they feel like they NEVER see their children? If they get them at 4:30, and put them to bed at 7:00 they have 2.5 hours in the evening with them. That amazes me....but still, we live in such a way that it HAS to be that way (I am saying HAS in a very sarcastic, "we have been brainwashed into thinking this," way) to have "The good life."

It doesn't seem mysterious why I don't do laundry every day....or dust every day....or mop, or make beds or any of those things every day! Sure, I am physically AT HOME 24ish hours a day, but YOU try to do anything domestic with 4 children under 4 running/crawling/cooing through the day and see how far down on YOUR to-do list you get!

So I don't know if other people miss their own environments, or if its just me....but I am greatly wondering WHY we work for the impressive digs when we give up so much to have it or why we try to have impressive homes at all anyway!!? What does it matter, when everyone is doing the SAME thing every-day anyway....and that SAME thing hardly ever includes enjoying what you've earned?

(I guess it is also a good thing I don't earn much to feel like I am missing out of it!)

I don't know. I am sure that the farmers of the day (or even of the TODAY) with their children under their feet and their wife/husband in the field had it best. They had their family, and their livelihood and their home all in the same place. They didn't have much, but I am sure they didn't stop to wonder if it was WORTH it. It might have been the same thing every day (what FARM has the SAME thing every day?) but it had one advantage, certainly. Everything that was touched was theirs, and their eyes could take it all in at once.

Ahh, winter blues! ;) The ultimate ground hog.