DDOL: Daylight saving sucks.
So, I’m that person who spent the last month preparing her child for Daylight Saving Time.
At the suggestion of Pam, The Amazing, our Parents As Teachers Parent Educator, I have been putting Liam down about 10 minutes later each week so that the DST wouldn’t come as such a shock to his system. It worked great. He was going to bed close to 8.45 and getting up at 6.45 or so. I’m thinking, “I am SUCH an AMAZINGLY FABULOUS parent. I planned ahead and we’re not going to have any problems with this time thing.”
Oh wait. I forgot that Liam is my kid. Everything has to be challenging. Why? Just because.
So, he got up at 5 a.m. Can I just tell you how AWESOME [heavy sarcasm] that is? I certainly got enough sleep at my mom’s house because people DYING is NEVER stressful and really, and I wasn’t NEARLY busy enough during the day trying to take care of him, Heather’s kids and my parents; trying to organize meals; and figuring out who was going to keep which kid when so that they didn’t have to go to the funeral or visitation. Oh, and let’s not forget about Halloween.
I WANTED to be up at the crack of dawn. Really.
DST is idiotic, if interesting*. Anything that messes with my kid’s sleep schedule is crap to me. The people who decided it was a good idea certainly didn’t have kids on which to force the falling and the springing. (Oh no wait…they weren’t people, they were MEN.)
Still, I’m not about to try to thwart it by being the only one in the metro area living in a separate time zone. That’s just a hassle. Oddly enough, or perhaps not so odd considering it’s Oklahoma, my sister knows a family that doesn’t observe Daylight Saving Time.
I wasn’t sure how they could do this and still get all of their kids to school on time, but it turns out that they home-school, so it’s not an issue there.
Evidently, the family simply acts as though they live in a separate time zone…except they don’t. From what I understand, they are constantly explaining “our” time vs. “your” time to people. For example, if you asked what time church begins, (a most appropriate question in OK) they would say, “10 a.m. (Pause) That’s 9 a.m. your time.”
If I really felt THAT strongly about it, I’d move to Arizona, since they are the last hold-out. It seems that part of Indiana wussed out. They’re giving in next spring.
I suppose we’ll all get used to it and it won’t seem like such a big deal until the next time around. I’m just glad L slept through the night, even if he did get up before the sun.
*See this site. Check out the anecdotes. Very interesting about the trains in October.
