Save the Daylight

I've heard some complaints lately about springing forward into Daylight Savings--it messes with the household routine, kids not going to sleep, my dh bemoaning that lost hour of productivity. I want to go on the record as a lover of daylights savings--I couldn't be happier with it.


First of all there's the simple novelty of the time changing. In the same way I look forward to the mail everyday to break up the tedium of a a long afternoon, the fact that something in my day or week is different delights me.


The bigger bonus though is what it's done to the kids. Morning wake up was getting earlier and earlier--those damn birds, I wish they'd tweet back to the Disney movie from whence they came. But now wake up is back to where it should be--7a.m. most days. Yesterday the X-Man slept until 7:20. By some incredible mom-alchemy I can still get everyone in the van and on the way to school by 7:51, so there's nothing to sweat. It's all early morning, reading the paper in peace and having a second cup of coffee goodness around here. Or, as of this moment, blogging. Ahhhhhhhhh.