Oh daylight savings, you sly minx. Well played last weekend, well played.
I have once again underestimated your ability to cause chaos.
If you think about it, changing the clock is a pretty odd thing. Time is one of those things that an entire society has to agree on to work. It’s kind of like picking a side of the road to drive on, everybody has to be on the joke or the results really aren’t funny.
And my kids aren’t in on the daylight savings punch line. They are not amused.
My house is struggling because we can’t agree on what time it is. The kiddos’ sleep cycles and tummies aren’t digging an hour shift.
For some reason, they are protesting the whole thing by waking up even earlier than usual. I’ve always had early birds, but they’ve been celebrating daylight savings by waking up at 5 this week. I’m kind of over it.
On a positive note, I had no problem being on time for my son’s 9 am dental appointment yesterday because I had four hours to get us there.
Also, it turns out that things could be much worse. I thought it was confusing to shift the clocks twice a year, but apparently this is the modern, simple approach to making good use of the daylight. According to my good friend Wikipedia, some ancient civilizations dealt with the changing hours of daylight by varying the length of hours seasonally. They often divided the daylight into twelve hours so that hours were longer in the summer and shorter in the winter.
Can you imagine implementing that today? I’m pretty sure I’d always be late if time was a moving target.
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I hate changing the clocks too. Always have and I wish we would spot doing so. Pain in the behind. I've been off since it happened.
Have a terrific day. :)
Oh how I love the change in the fall. It seems to put me back on my natural body clock. Early up, and bedding down by 7:30 at night. Lah lah LOVE it!
Spring forward? total bullcrap
There used to be a time when I LOVED the switch to Day Light Savings time. That of course was before I had children who insist on getting up at 5am.
5am! I think you just gave me a heart attack! Mine has been sick all week so the time change has completely unaffected us, she's been sleeping even longer then usual. Um yeah?
Yes, I just changed my alarm clock yesterday! lol Not cool waking up at 6 and it's actually 5.
I like the morning part of this but having it so dark it feels like I should be in bed way earlier than I am. My dog is struggling too she lays by her bowl starting at 5 looking pathetic !
Haha, your title cracked me up!
Though I was really happy with that extra hour on Sunday and my kids are (so far) unaffected, I personally am not coping well with the change. I can't seem to wake up in the morning without feeling like I drank my face off then pulled an all-nighter ... yuck.
Go save yourself, indeed.
Abolish the Time Change, I say! Some States have no switch, lucky them.
Hope the little guy did well at The Dentist. Kelly has always loved going, they make her feel so special.
xoxo
It is crazy what an hour can do to your day! Yes and my little one has been getting up at 5 as well. Gotta love it...NOT :)
Frankly I think we should just skip the whole thing. It causes more trouble than it is worth!
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