Bright Evenings or Dark Mornings?
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Just me on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 10:04 PM
I used to hate “spring forward.” Losing an entire hour of sleep was torturous!
(I don’t know why I didn’t just go to bed an hour earlier. Also, back then I had no idea what real sleep deprivation was.)
Once I became a stay-at-home mother, I developed more complex feelings about the time change. On the one hand, losing an hour of already-precious sleep time was no fun. On the other hand, waiting for Daddy to get home at the end of the day is easier when it’s still light outside.
These days we have another reason to like springing forward. Baby Camilla routinely slept until 9am, but I think Blaise has made a pact with himself to get up absolutely no later than 6am. With the switch to DST, he’s now willing to sleep until 7am. I’m hoping his body doesn’t figure that one out any time soon!
This week, our first in DST, we’ve also been blessed with unseasonably warm weather. The children have enjoyed boodling around outside every day, and I’ve enjoyed the fact that 6:30pm, Bryan’s normal home-from-work time, keeps sneaking up on me. I’ll look at the clock and think, “How can it be 5:48? It’s still broad daylight!” Then I remember Daylight Saving Time, beautiful gift and saver of my sanity that it is.
I guess there’s another side to the DST coin, though: losing the hour of daylight in the morning. I am not a morning person, and we’ve arranged our family’s schedule so I rarely have to get up before 8:00am, so the morning-daylight issue is barely on my radar, but I’m guessing that for those of you who do get up at or before the crack of dawn, it does matter.
So tell me: how do you feel about Daylight Saving Time? Love it? Hate it? Forget about it and show up late to Mass every year?
Please share!
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