The longest day of the year!

What do you get when you combine Daylight Savings Time and Fast Sunday?

In my before-kids-life: An extra hour for me to sleep or play out late with my friends.

In my dream-mommy-world: An extra hour to clean or study or bake or do something wonderful for my family or myself.

In my this-is-the-real-world-life: Just a REALLY LONG DAY!!!


H was up all night. I kept looking at the clock thinking, okay it's almost time to get up. He gets up every morning at 6:30 because that's when he hears the kids getting ready for school. So, on Sunday morning he was up at 6:30 ready to play, only it was 5:30. We don't have church until 12:00 so no one wanted to be up that early! The rest of the day just seemed to drag. We were ready for church, really early. I teach in the Primary and we are practicing for our program so for 2 hours the kids just sang the same songs over and over. It was a lot of work because they don't really know them. I thought it would never end. I kept asking if we could do another wiggle song. I felt like a tortured little kid. Then we had to sit through Sacrement meeting. The little ones were hungry because the time change messed up their lunch time, the big ones were hungry because they were fasting. Everyone was really tired! I thought that the meeting would never end. I kept watching the clock. The hands never moved! That night, I was so excited to put the kids to bed. I had the BIGGEST headache! I called everyone in for family prayer. K said, "It's only 6:30. You can't send them to bed this early." Oh yeah? So we read out of the Friend magazine for a little while and then I sent them all to bed at 7:00. I have no idea what time every one fell asleep. I do know that H was up again at 5:30 ready to play on Monday and again today! Some of our clocks have been changed, some of them have not. We have no idea what time it is around here.


A 25 hour day sounds wonderful....or does it?

Be careful what you wish for. It may not go quite the way you had planned.

I really wish that President Bush would plan the time changes on the same weekends at General Conference! That would really help me out alot. Maybe if Mitt Romney becomes president, someone could suggest it to him. Wait! He has kids. His wife has probably already thought of it!


P.S. I do have something new to be happy about. We finally got the bus to pick the kids up and drop them off in front of our house! Now I don't have to drive them to the bus stop in the morning and they don't have to walk home after school. It was a 1/2 mile away. Not too bad of a walk but when the bus pulled up right in front of our house this morning and I was bare foot and still in my pajamas with my car still in the garage and I didn't have to worry about leaving the 3 little ones home alone for 15-30 minutes, I was really thankful!