Happy Daylight Savings Time

Some people's favorite holiday is Christmas. For others, it's Halloween. My favorite holiday is Daylight Savings, the spring forward kind.

This is the best holiday ever invented. I like it so much that I want to send out cards to honor it. I want to give people meaningless presents. I want to decorate my house in gaudy lights that say, "Daylight Savings Time was created to give me an extra hour of sleep in the morning." I want to leave these lights on all day long just so people know that Daylight Savings Time was designed to honor me and energy conservation is merely an unrelated bonus.

Why do I love Daylight Savings Time?

As you might remember from last year at this time our boys weren't sleeping that well. But then we miraculously sprung forward, which made 6 AM the new 5 AM and pulled me back from the brink of insanity. Back then I credited the overnight diapers, but no longer.

You see, my boys have these pesky internal clocks that seem to tell them to wake up at the exact same time each day. We tried to put them to bed later. We tried to put them to bed earlier. We tried blackout shades and sensory deprivation tanks. It is always the same and it is always too early.

Since Sunday morning we've gotten a reprieve. It is absolutely amazing to wake to our boys talking in the next room and to look at my watch and see that it's 6:02 AM, instead of 5:02 AM.

Naysayers, do not tell me this will pass. Do not tell me they will adjust to the difference, just like they did last year. Ruining this holiday for me would be worse than when my 6th grade boyfriend didn't get me anything for Valentine's Day because he told me that the holiday was created by Hallmark.

I think we should spring forward every month. Who's with me?

Comments

[Suzanne]

All I know is that I hate to fall back, so how bout we keep it where it is. Is that good enough for you?

[Patrick Yew]

I'm with you!! I was thinking these exact thoughts when Sunday morning came around and it was 6:30AM and I was still sleeping. My 2.5yr old son has the same problem, getting up between 5AM and 5:20AM. He actually slept in for my birthday a few weeks ago, an extra 90 minutes! That was THE BEST birthday present I could get, sleep. But that is so rare... My two month old is starting to give a us a run for a our money too.
Next month same time? I'm with you! I don't think the people in Arizona know what they're missing.

[wRitErsbLock]

I'm glad to finally find someone who appreciates daylight stupid time.

I'm also glad to see you posting more frequently.

[Christina]

Oh, I am SO with you. My six month old girl sleeps 6pm-6am. Which is great in that she's sleeping though the night. But it kind of sucks on the days she has daycare, because I barely see her before she's falling asleep. And it sucks every single morning - I am NOT a morning person.

Since Sunday? 7pm-7am, Baby! It is the awsome.

[Ali]

Umm... the extra hour of sleep is when Daylight Savings time ENDS, which is in the Fall.