We’re still getting used to the change to Daylight Savings Time around here. I’m not whining or one of those people who are complaining that it is three weeks earlier than normal this year. After all, I spent several years living in a section of the country (Indiana) where the residents have voted consistently NOT to participate in Daylight Savings Time, so I’ve learned to live with variations of this created concept of keeping track of time. Still, we’re not quite ourselves getting up an hour “earlier” in the mornings and wondering what to do with ourselves in the evenings while it stays light, but the weather is still icky enough to keep us inside.
Which makes me wonder whether this whole three weeks earlier was a conspiracy to get us to use more electricity with our morning routines and the television watching in the evenings while the rains pour down outside in our extended “daylight?” Regardless, we’re a little snarky, a little crabby, and trying to get our bearings with the changes in our schedule.
Isn’t it interesting how a think like the external, official, clock changes can cause major family disturbances? I can’t help but remember when my children were newborns and completely oblivious to things like clocks and time and schedules–they were able to just go with the flow–develop their own sense and way about things–eat when they were hungry, sleep when they were tired, cry when they wanted company. All those things we consider absolutely uncivilized. Doesn’t that sound fantastically dreamy? Wouldn’t it be lovely to not have to fuss with changing clocks and waking up one morning with the sunrise and the next morning in the dark–just to stay “on schedule?!”
Yes, we’re still adjusting around here. It’s even harder than normal to rouse the teens to get them out the door in the morning–no one wants to leave their warm beds in the wee hours of the morning, and they are less eager than normal to go to bed at night since the clock only says 10 p.m. when last week it would have been 11 p.m. But, we’ll adjust, like most families, we’re rather resilient; we can work with this modern concept of Daylight Savings Time.