I forgot that it was the start of Daylight Saving Time yesterday. I hate to "spring forward". And if I had remembered ahead of time, I would have scheduled a vacation day today.
It's not just that you lose an hour, you also gain an hour. How you say? Well, you gain an hour when your child decides that regardless of what it might say on the clock, she is not tired and now stays up for an hour past her bed time.
How are you suppose to get a 1 year old to understand that her bedtime is the same according to the clock even if she's not tired and her body says play more? If I could have remembered, maybe I would have prepared her throughout the week. But unfortunately, I didn't get the reminder until I logged onto my computer yesterday and it showed 10:30am when all the clocks in my house still said 9:30.
So we even tried to tire her out throughout the day. Running around in the yard, going for a walk, pushing her own stroller around. It seemed like a good plan when she went down for her nap an hour earlier without fuss. We even tried to feed her dinner and get her bath done 45 minutes earlier. Seemed like it had the potential to work until we tried to put her down for bed and instead she decided it was time to bounce around.
12:30am I think it was when she finally went down. Somehow, she had managed to stay up an extra hour longer than when she would have usually gone to sleep. I hate daylight saving time.
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