How could day light savings time possibly be a problem? (for the record, I am not slow in posting this, western Europe just went to Daylight savings time this last weekend). It so nice, having it staying light a little longer… Well other then the fact that the nature takes care of that on it’s own (it is always light later in the summer, you don’t need to move the clock for that – duh!) of course or kids are not adjusting so well to this ‘Spring ahead’ thing. Actually, it is almost like they did the reverse ‘ Fall back’.
One little clock change, and their schedules are all messed up.
Normally we they start getting ready for bed at 7 and are asleep by 8. Now… It’s 9.00 or 9.30 before they finally fall asleep! And then of course the next morning they are insufferable because they are so tired. And it’s not just the time change, we are saving daylight and it’s suddenly light till 8.30. We still don’t have curtains in the boys bedroom but we have two towels practically stapled to wall to cover the window and there is indeed very little light coming in. But no dice. Monty comes out of his bed every 15 minutes wanting this or that, Monty will just turn the bedroom light on and play with cars, and Stoney figures, oh well, the light is on, I might as well read a book. One time I came to check on them because some ominous noises were coming from upstairs and they were playing tag…
Needless to say… They are driving us crazy. Hopefully they will get used to the new schedule soon and go to sleep on time so they are not so tired the next day and make everybody miserable.
On a related note, now that Spring is finally here (we have been enjoying gorgeous spring weather all week) and we can enjoy the trees butting and flowers starting to come out… well, the cats have Spring in their heads too. Every night, there are concerts a plenty of love sick cats. So Leland and I are not sleeping that great either…
So in a nutshell: Spring is here, welcome insomnia.
It was time for curtains... And who made the curtains? Leland made the curtains. Not without any pain, in Leland's own words: "Well, it only took me four and a half hours, one trip to the store, many questions wondering if I had screwed the entire thing up, one series of seam ripping, and several times of stretcheing my back, but the curtains are finished. I also made two pillow cases for the boys out of extra material."
And look how pretty these curtains turned out!! (It was tricky too because its a roof window.
Is he the son of a home-ed teacher or what?
Tonight we actually had the first barbecue of the season! It reached the high 60's today and we decided to have a barbecue. Little mishap: I burnt my eyebrow during teh barbecue. How did i do that you may wonder? Flying ashes.
Picture of the sunset from our backyard.
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Very creative Leland. I know what you mean about the schedule thing, it drives us crazy too, but we keep trying until they get used to it and here we are a few weeks later and I think it is finally success!!!
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