Oh my, am I exhausted!!

The kids arrived home on Tuesday of this week. I drove to Montréal and it was happy reunion (other than hubby being detained for possible child abduction, apparently I was supposed to have sent him off with a permissionary note to travel with my. . . errr. . . OUR children and they stopped in on their way back into Canada). It’s been a busy week, I tired to get us all right back in to the normal week days of babysitter and school while I went to work and today we just played, lounged and rested and this is what has exhausted me so much HAHA MY CHILDREN AND HUSBAND!!! It makes me laugh that while hubby and the kids were gone on their vacation I was able to paint my bedroom, I shampooed the carpets and furniture, I steam cleaned the non carpeted floors, I deep cleaned both bathrooms and scrubbed the tiles in the showers, I cleaned out all the closets, shoveled at least 40 cm’s of snow (a little at a time each day). I washed the walls and reorganized all the kitchen cupboards. I washed all of my daughter’s infant clothing and sorted out the new baby’s dresser. I even went as far as packing the hospital! I took my time and it was all done in just a few days that left me with two days of nothing but rest but rather I chose to sew some new blankets for the baby . . . but I exhausted TODAY!!!!! Why is being with my little ones is so much draining than cleaning?? I just don’t get it!