Daylight Wasting Time

I think Daylight Savings Time is nothing more than an evil plot against parents.  Seriously!  All the farming these days is done by big corporations.  They have high tech equipment and lights and crews of thousands.  They don't need an extra hour.  And energy savings?  Please.  Time change is a plot against parents.  Just think about it.

In the spring you lose an hour.  Yes, as though the day wasn't short enough already for parents, there is a day that is cut down to 23 hours.  Boo!  And they say that you'll get that hour back in the fall, but they don't say what that hour will look like.

So after surviving the Halloween madness on Saturday, Jeff and I were all excited for our extra hour on Sunday.  We knew better than to think we would actually get an extra hour of sleep (that's a good one!) but we thought we would at least have an extra hour to get things done.

Um, no.

Both boys were up by 5:45, and they were screaming because they were STARVING.  They had been eating breakfast between 7:30 and 8:00, so I'm not sure exactly why they wanted to get up quite so early, but they did.  I think it was our punishment for putting them to bed late on Saturday night.  (No, this does not make sense, but have you ever tried to rationalize with 11-month-olds?  Their responses, at best, tend to be along the lines of "MAMAMAMAMAMA" or zerberts.  At worst they cry.  A lot.  And they just don't grasp the concept that staying up late should be complemented by sleeping in.)

We should've known then that the day was going to be shot, but silly us, we still had hope.  The day did not get better.  The boys spent most of the day crying because Something Wasn't Right.  They were briefly placated when I took them to Kohl's and Dollar General with me, but the happiness ended abruptly when we returned home.  So you know what we did with our "extra" hour that was actually rudely stolen from us back in the spring?  We spent it holding crying babies.  Yay for cuddles!  Babies are so sweet! :)

Since Sunday Leon and Michael have continued to get up between 5:00 and 5:30 each morning.  Oh, and Leon hasn't been wanting to stay asleep, so he's been checking in every 30-45 minutes until midnight.  And twice during the night after that.  And since they are not sleeping at night, they have also decided to cut their daytime naps down from 2 hours to 45 minutes.  Yawn.

The only thing saving me is that I know I am not alone.  I have yet to talk to a parent with a child under the age of 5 who isn't currently in sleep deprivation hell.  Daylight Savings Time, you are the most evil plot against parents...EVER.