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The shoe has dropped

I've been at home full-time now for 9 months and during all this time, I've been wondering when I'll reach the brick wall, when I'll reach the point where I say, "Enough!" In short, when the other shoe will drop. I think it's here. I've noticed some subtle? changes in my behavior. I used to be a morning person..now I've become a no-time-of-day person. I'm pretty grumpy sometimes and it takes very little to set me off. Maybe it's because I haven't gotten one night's restful sleep in almost 2 years? (Pay attention all of you out there who don't have kids yet!) All I know is that when I was getting much less sleep than I am now, and working full-time, I was a pretty happy person. I had everything in neat, little cardboard boxes in my head and I could pull out any work or home item and be totally on top of things. Now, that cardboard is all soggy and mushy upstairs (see my post in Oct 2008 about this). Since I actually have ...