What has happened to me?

I went on an excursion to Wal-Mart tonight.  Jared had a lot of schoolwork to do and I prefer doing things like Wal-Mart without the boys.  I walked through the clothes section, actually planning on buying something new, rather than from Goodwill.  I found myself thinking quite a lot of the clothes were really ugly.   There was a time not that long ago (at least it seems that it wasn’t) that I would have liked all of the new styles.  It seems that I’ve been noticing that I like fewer and fewer of them.  I ran into a friend and immediately asked what time it was, because it felt like it was midnight.  I was exhausted.  She told me it was 9:41.  Good grief, what has happened?  Then I found myself telling the cashier as I was checking out (by this time it was 10:30) that I was surprised to see so many people out so late at night.  As soon as it came out of my mouth I realized how weird that sounded.  It really wasn’t that late.  I mean, really.  Then I stopped at Walgreens to buy the one thing I couldn’t find at Wal-Mart, a little screw driver kit for glasses.  As I come up to the register, the man asks me how I’m doing and I tell him I’m really tired.  He says, “Well, why are you so tired?  It’s not that late.”  And then it hits me, I have two boys.  That’s why I’m tired.  And that’s also why I need to go to bed before 12:00!  Wow, times have changed for me!