The Beat Down

Right now I am feeling the beat down.  Working like crazy, exhausted all the time, can't really get caught up.  I am tired.  It just doesn't seem like my days end and when I do sit down to relax I do so at the expense of other things I have to do.  Well, I guess laundry can do that to anyone but I am not just referring to the laundry.  Sometimes I just want to sit and enjoy moments with my kids.  It is the 11th of December, I haven't gotten down any of the Christmas decorations.  We have no tree, not because we don't have a tree but because I haven't pulled it out of the storage area I keep it in.  Am I scrooge?  When I think about the tree I don't feel like taking the time to do it.  The kids are heading to Alaska in a week, we don't have any presents here anyway and it just seems like a bunch of work for me to pull out the tree, set it up just for me and then have to take it all back down.  No thanks, I've got enough to do.  I feel a pillow calling my name.  That laundry will have to wait, I am fixin to go pass out.