Fall on this!

Every November I think about doing something for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, for those who don't know). So this year I thought I would try to blog every day. This is my first blog and it is already the 6th, so clearly I am doing a just bang up job here. Hopefully I will manage to get more writing in before the end of the month. Possibly I will even try to throw in some things that I am Thankful for, since it is that time of year again too.

Today is the first day of the time change. Did we just start Daylight savings time or end it? I never can remember. Whatever the label attached to this, I hate it. Before A. I pretty much adored the fall time change.....Who doesn't love gaining an hour? Either an hour to catch up on sleep or to use as you see fit. The spring change stunk a little, but really wasn't a huge deal. Children change that.

I think that parents hate the time change because it just capriciously screws up bed time. And bedtime for the under 5 is a bit like a car in an action adventure movie.....balanced precariously on the cliff's edge just ready to tip over and burst into flames killing everyone inside. Or maybe that is just at my house.

Also, when the kids are small, you never gain an extra hour of sleep. What you gain is an hour of a tired, whiny small person begging you to entertain them. Super fun! Especially when you add in an attempt to make the small person change their eating times by an hour. So now the tired, whiny, bored kid has low blood sugar too.

Which is why, for parents everywhere I say the time change can kiss my grits.