Cranky Mary

I don’t understand why we have to change time. I certainly do not understand why we would need to Spring Forward and basically loose a whole hour. I mean where does it really go anyways? Why does it have to go? I wondered this and many other things while I was doing everything I could to get to sleep Sunday night. I somehow convinced myself that yes the clock said 11:30, but really it is only 10:30 so go ahead and stay up another hour reading. I should logically have been about to rationalize that also meant when my alarm clock goes off at 5:30 (or really 5:20 as I always wake up 10 minutes before my clock goes off – weird, I know), that it would in essence be 4:30 and I should take my happy butt off to bed. I am beyond lucky that my girls are schedule children. What is that you say? Did I train my children like dogs? What an interesting idea. But no, I did not. My children from age 1 month (3 weeks for the baby) insisted themselves upon a schedule that included an early bedtime and late wake up. I know I am lucky so do not start the hate mail. The oldest truly thinks she should be in bed at 7:00 at night. We called the baby an old man for the first 1 ½ of her life because she wanted to go to bed around 5:30 or 6:00 at the very latest. Now you would think this would mean they would get up at the crack of dawn and you would be wrong, oh so very wrong. While I was still nursing them they would get up when I woke them up to feed them. That’s right. I would have to wake them up to feed them! They would promptly go back to sleep and sleep for several hours. Once the nursing stopped, they felt sleeping in until 8:00, 8:30 and sometimes even until 9:00 was appropriate. Again, I know I’m lucky. So, while I put my sleepyheads to bed at 7:00 Sunday night (yes, while it was still bright outside), I couldn’t help but wonder why on earth it was so easy for them to be on a schedule and I couldn’t get on board. I guess it is just my natural stubbornness to not given in to losing one hour or maybe I just wanted to make sure everyone remembered what cranky Mary is like. Cranky Mary appears when she is tired or hungry. To ease the pain of the time change and defying sleep, I did stop and get breakfast yesterday and today. Maybe I’ll just sleep tonight instead?