Friday, November 9, 2007
Daylight Savings Drama
Okay, so I used to love daylight savings in the fall. You got to catch up a little on your sleep. Even though getting dark at 5 p.m. is just weird, I looked forward to that extra hour. Fast forward to my life today. Sunday I thought would be a great day. Church is early, but I would have an extra hour to sleep and still get the clan ready on time. Nope...Dylan was up by 5:45 a.m. and Preston didn't sleep much longer. I didn't bother fighting it. I got up with Dylan and tried to spend some quality time before I started getting ready. The whole week has been like that - early naps, crazy eating schedule, the baby trying to go to bed at 6:30 p.m. No wonder we are so exhausted this week. Man, will our schedule ever adapt? Probably...and then it will be April and time to readjust again. Oh well, nothing's the same after kids...NOTHING! Who knew the little guys could turn my world completely upside down like that and I'd still be smiling?
4 comments:
Okay so we are in the same screwed up ornery schedule as well!! It sucks! I think I will move back to arizona just so that we don't have to change time!!
Maria, I know what you mean. We've been having DST drama all week too. Last Sun. Noah had a complete melt down during nursery because he thought it should be lunch time/nap time, the nursery leader snapped at me, and I ended up having to take Noah home early. What a fiasco!
-Laura
Why do we do it? Why are we all such mindless little automatons who move our clocks when Congress says to regardless of how it effects our lives. I thought they worked for US!
Arg. At least I'm not the only one who hates it.
Someone told me it takes about three weeks for kids (and adults) to switch their internal clocks around. That is a LONG time to have grumpy kids and weird messed up schedules. I feel you Laura...tired kids in nursery is so dang hard! I know the weather is weird in the winter anyway, but crazy time change means very little sunlight to do anything outside as a family after work. Marcos gets home and it's too dark for anything. It's dinner and bed. It makes family bonding much more difficult.
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