Tired all the time?

I have been told that when people ask me how I am, I say I am tired. This seems to be my response most of the time they say. Ok only some of my in-laws say this.
But honestly when they see me, it is at 12, or 1AM after a day of packing and running errands to leave for a short weekend trip. Four hours of driving and dealing with kids and an impatient spouse ( "You and our four year old have to pee now, while we are actually stopped at the gas station"). So of course when it is 1 AM and I get in bed by 12 most nights, and you add all that other stuff, yeah when you first see me and I am yawning, I am tired.
So ettiquite requires I placate and say, "Me teek hu". But I say forget that. This is family, if I cannot say the truth with you, then why bother asking me and/or getting my response!
I could do the "proper thing" that way I don't get the tirade of "your tired, she's tired?" I gave birth to 9 kids. You don't know tired. To which Waseem reminds people that times are different than they were then. You had a village helping you. (you know the addage it takes a village to raise a child) Well that was true. And when they got here, the older kids took care of the younger ones. That was without learning to drive and learning the language. So you didn't have to interact and do other things. It was just the house.
So now, we do it alone. One or two kids or more, we do extra activities with them that they never did. Soccer, piano, ballet, tennis, football, swimming, golf, PTA, our jobs, clean our house, cook, entertain, visit people, see family---who don't live with you, have friends, travel ( and not just back home to the pind once every 2 years) all at warp speed.
So yeah forgive me if I am tired. With my 8 month old crawling over to unplug my laptop again, and waiting for everyone in the house to actually wake up (we were all up at 7:30, and Safah has eaten--I brought the cereal she likes, I have made Waseem and me chai (I miss my coffee--in the morning). And we are still trying to keep the kids quiet so that they don't disturb everyone else. It's 10:30. And we all went to sleep at the same time.

But yeah, Mei bahoot achi hu! Thanks for asking. ;)