I guess I'm the only person in the world who hates DST in the fall. When I was younger I enjoyed the extra hour of sleep, but of course extra time is simply not a benefit offered to the parents of toddlers.So now it's just a loss of precious sunlit hours which is - to me - a fate worse than gaining 5 pounds over the weekend. I mean ... I am a Texan, through and through. My favorite vegetable is steak, I can saddle a horse, my hair is enormous, and - most of all - I thrive on sunshine. I don't care so much about sunrise (although it is much easier to get up when it's light out), but it hurts my Southern soul when the sun sets at 5:30. Yuck!
I do have to admit, we ended up having a pretty nice day yesterday. We were able to get up and get moving earlier than usual, so we had aleady had breakfast and been to the grocery store by 11. Then we pretty much sat around and were bums all day. Elvis watched football and did some lesson planning. Henry and I had a great time playing Wii sports and dancing to our vast Rolling Stones collection. We even made a family trip to our local park, where the 3 of us played catch until the sun set (so ridiculously early) before returning home to enjoy a delicious spaghetti dinner. Even though I can't wait for spring to return, it was a pretty great way to kick off the fall.
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