All the reminders about the time change this weekend have been accompanied by some reference to an extra hour of sleep. Bah! Sleeping in. If you don’t have kids, maybe. It’s just before nine o’clock on a Sunday morning, and we’ve already been up for more than four hours. We’ve watched a video, played a rousing round of Candyland, had breakfast and a snack. I’ve read the entire Sunday paper while the kids played video games, and had two cups of coffee. Four hours later, and I’m still bitter about dragging myself resentfully from my warm and cozy flannel sheets at 4:43 this morning. The day stretches out like an endless desert horizon before us with no relief in sight; it’s not even 9 am and we’re already bored and sick of each other and climbing the walls.
Time changes? Suck.
It’s my fault that they’re early risers, I know. I get up for work every day just before 6 am, and I’m hardwired for early mornings now. (I’ve said, only half-joking, that my brain power and energy levels peak sometime around 10:30 in the morning, and it’s just a long, slow slide to bedtime from there.) It’s been years since I’ve slept as late as 8 am, and even if I did, I’d feel like I’d wasted half the day. But even for an inveterate morning person like me, wake-up times that start with a four are inhumane.
I know, I know, someday they’ll be teenagers and will sleep through the morning straight on into afternoon and I’ll be complaining because I can’t get them out of bed. And nobody has ever actually expired from sleep deprivation, right? Right?
Save me from last place! Have you voted today?
I voted for you!
And time changes DO suck.
If it makes you feel any better, the boys got me up at 4:57. It’s 10 AM now and I feel like I’ve lived an entire day and a half already. I feel your pain 🙂
Right there with you, out of things to do by 9am. Although you were up even earlier than we were. So, so sorry. How many hours until bedtime???
You certainly got less sleep than me, but I still found the space between wake-up and nap-time to be excruciatingly long.
I normally go to bed a little after 9 pm and get up a little after 6 am. This morning I got up at 6:22 according to my cell phone, but when I went down to the computer it said it was 5:25. I figured out that we must have fallen back to standard time. Oh well, I managed to change all my clocks.
You are right about those teenagers – mine slept well past 11:00 this morning, which was really noon. The little ones, however, were like yours and up before the sun. Cute post – as usual. See you soon.
6 am for us, but luckily he went downstairs and entertained himself until I got up at 8 ( that wa the 6 year old). The teenager got up at 1030.
The depressing thing is that by the time they are teenagers, we will be so old that we will be in menopause and unable to sleep in!
It worked out well for us this year…we kept the kids up with us until midnight (we had friends over); which was REALLY only 11, right. So they slept in until 9 (which was really only 8) – a miracle!
I voted.
Ummm…I think people have actually expired from sleep deprivation. But those people and animals were purposely subjected to torture. I don’t think your kids count. Or maybe they do….?
I forgot to add the link to more info!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation
Hey it worked for me this last weekend. I got up at 10…I mean 9 with the time change.
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Time changes do suck, that’s why I work to convince my fellow Saskatchewanians to keep our more perfect time law 🙂
Also I see you’ve won some CBAwards in the past. Robert isn’t running the awards this year… but me and a team of people will. If you are interested in helping out, please give me an email. “Judges” will still be able to participate, because they’ll be assigned to decide who is eligible for categories they are not associated with.
I hope to have everything ready and rolling into nominations by December. Spread the word if you want.