So, yesterday was daylight saving time. We "fell back" one hour in the dark of night, giving us all a chance to relax in bed for an extra hour on Sunday morning, enjoying the paper and breakfast in bed.
Riiiiight.
I remember back in the spring when we turned our clocks forward. Daddy River Badger actually gave me a fist bump right after dinner when he realized that the "new time" put us nearly at Badger bedtime! Now we're making up for that. With small children, an extra hour sounds lovely in the abstract. An extra hour of playing! And on the weekend, too! An extra hour of fun together! In reality, not so much. Reality involves children waking up just as early as ever even though parents had snuck in that extra hour of TV the night before. Kids get cranky when naps are pushed back, and meals slightly postponed. Kids that were used to a routine (because that's what good parents do, right?) now see the disruption of the routine as a good reason to throw it out the window completely. If you were inclined to chart disobedience and disrespectful behavior, I think daylight saving time might mark the peak of the curve.
And then throw in a Little Badger getting sick and all bets are off!
Yesterday was a bit chaotic (she wrote in her best genteel tone). I guess you can't use clusterf&*k in a family blog. It was almost a parallel universe where dirty dishes and laundry spontaneously appeared from thin air, previously well-behaved pets started doing very naughty things, and babies decided that applesauce and yogurt would make excellent facial and hair products for the entire family.
Not to say that there weren't fun moments. Big Brother Badger had an amazing imaginary story going about dinosaurs living in an apartment waiting for trick-or-treaters. I think the dinosaurs planned on eating the trick-or-treaters, but knew they were out of luck when they realized that they'd have to wait a few million years. Little Brother Badger got in two hours of Thomas the Tank Engine! Baby Badger enjoyed playing with her tea set and feeding us all delicious cakes and appetizers. And Mommy River Badger had a very nice nap with a very tired LBB after answering his many questions about jet planes, extinction events, and Daddy climbing up on the roof. Everyone ate his or her dinner, and mostly played nicely. BBB taught an impromptu karate class for his little brother and sister, which ended with Mommy (a bad guy) getting pummeled.
Despite the mayhem from earlier, all three Little Badgers were happy to stretch into their new bedtimes by day's end. The Boy Badgers enjoyed a story about a family of dolphins, and fell asleep talking to each other, as usual. Today actually started pretty smoothly, as I learned to appreciate the extra hour that appeared in the morning. So, we made it. No fist bumps this time, though.
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