What Exactly Does Daylight Savings Do?

What exactly does daylight savings do? Well twice a year I am told that I need to either fall back or spring forward an hour. I honestly have no idea what the purpose is for this inconvenience. Yes it is an inconvenience.  I have no memory of this messing up my day or even week when I was younger. But when there are three children involved it is a different story. Daylight savings time is an evil and senseless plot to make my life miserable for days.

Just when I think I have found a rhythm to all this madness, it is time to change time. It usually begins the night before. On Saturday I begin to look at the clock and say to myself “well really it is four even though it says three”. This may possibly be a little obsessive on my part. Sheer panic sets in when it gets later at night. I begin to think that I should really go to bed an hour earlier so I do not lose sleep but who wants to go to bed early on a Saturday night?!? This particular year I thought I would be smarter than this evil plot and I went to bed at 10:30pm. Well with a newborn you never know just how much sleep you will actually get. So I prayed and hoped for a baby that would sleep through the night so that I would be well rested for the chaos that would occur. (This is where we all laugh and talk about the crazy lady hoping for a newborn to do this on a night that she wants). Plus our early bird girlie decided to sleep in spiraling our day into the mess that it was.

Everything was late. Late breakfast (which then turned into brunch). Late chores. Late dinner. Late bedtime. It is amazing how one little hour can do so much damage. I felt as though I was playing catch up and failing to succeed at the game.

It takes us longer than just a day to get adjusted to this time change. Usually by one in the afternoon the girls are both ready to take a break. However with the time change this is not what they want at one in the afternoon. They are still ready to go and seek adventure. This then ultimately messes up what the rest of the day, causing for everything to be late. Again. Both girls will act as though they were given a stimulant that causes fast moving, fast talking, and extreme irritability. It creates an unpleasant Monday. It will take the rest of the week to slowly create some sort of normalcy in our routine.

There is no point to daylight savings time. There is nothing beneficial that is created by this trickery. So thank you to whomever decided to make daylight savings time a thing. I believe whoever did, did so to create chaos in my life. This person probably lives in Arizona and is currently laughing at all of us for following such a senseless observance.

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