Dinner on the go
I won't eat dinner says Liam, but I'll eat a while bag of baby carrots while dancing around the kitchen. You didn't really want to clean up the dinner I refused to eat did you?
This is what happens when the toddler graduates out of his booster seat and can no longer be buckled in - our once good eater is way to interested in being mobile to consider any meal a priority.
Daylight Whatever Time
Saving, losing, if facebook is to be trusted, every has an opinion about the time change - parents especially.
I'm not a fan of it, but I'm not going to blame my dislike for the time change on my kids.
Last fall while facebook was taken over by all the complaints about not getting an extra hour of sleep because the kids would wake up at their usual time anyway, only now it would be a WHOLE HOUR EARLIER(!!!) I wondered if people really forced themselves to stay in bed an extra hour just because the clock said so. I'm just as likely to be waking up at my usual time as my kids. We actually used "fall back" to finally get into a decent morning routine. Nathan had a really hard time getting up for school at the beginning of the fall, but as soon as he could sleep until 7am and the clock called that time 6am, we were good to go. He got up between 5:45 and 6:00 am for that whole first week of the time change before settling in to join the rest of the east coast's sense of time. Maybe I would have felt differently if the boys had been getting up at 5am before the fall shift back.
I was a little worried about springing forward would mean for getting up for church and school this week, but it hasn't been terrible. Yesterday, still being in bed at 7am felt luxurious, even if every cell in my body knew full well that it was actually 6am. The boys had no trouble going to bed when the clock said it was bed time last night. And while this morning it was hard for Nathan to get up (he did not manage to open his eye for real until 7am - we need to leave for school by 7:30) we'd planned well and the morning wasn't a disaster.
So I guess if we used "fall back" to make getting up a little easier, maybe we can use "spring ahead" to get into better night-before habits to make mornings a little easier. Or we can just say, well that wasn't so bad, and move on. Either way, as long as we keep up this silly time change thing you won't find me complaining about it.
Time Change Update - Nathan blames the government
It's possible that I spoke too soon when I reported on Monday that this whole time change thing, while crazy, isn't such a big deal. Trying to get Nathan up at 6:30am has been a nightmare (remember - on Monday I let him sleep until 7:00am). Yesterday he said his body was still really angry because the government changed the time. I guess if it took at least a week for his body clock to line up with EST when we fell back, I should have anticipated it would be a week long process again.. Trying for super organized mornings it is! At least the Liam's Five AM WakeUp came at 6 this morning...
We're Irish you know
(Among other things.)
Liam is an Irish nickname for William and Nathan looks like the family tree stopped with his Irish great great Grandma Burke, so you'd think that they (or we) might have some Irish pride.
Alas, on this "wearever" day at school, when the kids didn't have to wear their uniforms and could wear whatever they wanted as long as they wore green in celebration of St. Patrick's Day, Nathan's only green shirt (that's not a polo and thus a shirt he can wear to school any day) is a practically brown green. Oh well.
It's a Christian school, maybe he'll actually learn something about St. Patrick today that will be worth celebrating next year. (Not only do his parents have no sense of cultural heritage, we also don't drink beer.)