I hate the start of Daylight Savings.
Scratch that. I HAAAATE Daylight Savings.
I don’t care that the extra hour of sunlight will kill the plants or fade the curtains or wake the cows early and curdle the milk. I hate the fact that it will now take ANOTHER FUCKING HOUR for Boo to go to sleep. His internal clock is permanently set on ‘awake’.
‘Get your feet off the wall’
Now I am lamenting that I let him play outside for that extra freaking hour – yes Daylight Savings gives an extra HOUR to play in the freaking mud – and then couldn’t be bothered giving him a shower just a wipe down (cause he has to shower in the mornings due to nocturnal mictruition) and now I have foot prints on the walls.
‘Put it down’
As he pulls a book from under his bed.
‘Give me that car. It’s sleep time’
Where the hell did that come from? He didn’t have it in the bed. I know it wasn’t there cause I had to change the sheets before he went to bed cause he used them as toilet paper five minutes before.
‘Lay down properly. It is nearly 11.30.’
But in his little melatonin diminished brain it is only still early. So par-tay on.
‘Get your hand out of Pikachu’s eye and GO. TO. SLEEP’
Boo has a soft Pickachu bedhead that I made him. Over the years he has picked the stuffing out of the eyes. And eaten it.
Interesting when you are wiping his arse and stuffing comes out.
I am so tired. That bone tiredness that makes your brain all fuzzy and your mouth feel like the morning after a big night out. My body is aching to go to sleep and Boo is doing the Macarena.
‘Leave my feet alone’
He is now resting his head on my feet.
‘Lay down properly Boo or so help me….’
giggle ‘Help you what Mummy?’
‘Don’t worry. Just go to sleep! Please, Boo, please. Go. To. SLEEP.
He is manically giggling. Bouncing around the room. I have tomorrow off work as a rec day. Gunna waste my day that I was going to spend cleaning (oh the joys of a working mother, rec days are for deep cleaning) walking around like a zombie. Or worse still, with Boo home.
‘Get our foot out of Pikachu’s ear!’
Oh God, someone, get this kid to sleep!
He has stopped moving. He is still. Is he….. asleep? Or has he passed out from choking on some of the the Pokemon pupil? Do I dare check?
A faint snore.
Oh. He is asleep. And it is only midnight. Better hightail it outta here and jump into bed cause who knows what time he will start the all-singing-all-dancing one man show again.
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You deserve a medal. My kids know that if I don’t get enough sleep then I’m cranky as all get out. God help anyone if they wake me from a nanna nap on the weekend.
Personally, I love daylight savings, but then my kids sleep. I don’t share your pain at turning the clocks forward, but I understand it. (I had 5 years where 3, 2 or 1 of my kids would wake every single night. I had 4 kids under 5. I didn’t realise how sleep deprived I was until the baby finally started sleeping through the night when he was about 2 years old.)
Get some sleep!
I’ve known one little autistic darling whose bottom extruded several metres of elastic cotton when it was wiped. Turned out he’d been eating his socks :}
I hate daylight savings too. Children need an extenal dial so that we can change their body clocks at leisure.
Hope you got a little sleep.
external* ugh, I wish my hands could keep up with my brain when I type.
Any woman who has a pink fuzzy tool belt is a friend of mine. Hope your day improved.
LOL daylight savings not only messes up my kids heads it has messed up mine and the cats (who thinks dinner time is all over the place now instead of at 9.30pm each night).
I cant wait to get DS curtains up so his room is darker, because at the moment he is awful to get into bed at night and trying to get him back out of holiday mode into school week mode when its still got light coming into his room later and later arrgghh (we made it early – dripping sarcasm here- the other night, he went to bed at midnight instead of 2am!).
DD on the other hand goes to bed by 8.30pm every night, unfortunately she is also sleeping in DS room (temporarily)and his room has the ONLY east facing window in the house, so she is waking when the first ray of sun gets over the horizon.
ARGGGHHH, so i am currently getting a break of roughly 2.5 hours between one going to bed and the other getting up again.
Many hugs Kel, I really do feel your pain in regards to dst and sleep!
LOL daylight savings not only messes up my kids heads it has messed up mine and the cats (who thinks dinner time is all over the place now instead of at 9.30pm each night).
I cant wait to get DS curtains up so his room is darker, because at the moment he is awful to get into bed at night and trying to get him back out of holiday mode into school week mode when its still got light coming into his room later and later arrgghh (we made it early – dripping sarcasm here- the other night, he went to bed at midnight instead of 2am!).
DD on the other hand goes to bed by 8.30pm every night, unfortunately she is also sleeping in DS room (temporarily)and his room has the ONLY east facing window in the house, so she is waking when the first ray of sun gets over the horizon.
ARGGGHHH, so i am currently getting a break of roughly 2.5 hours between one going to bed and the other getting up again.
Many hugs Kel, I really do feel your pain in regards to dst and sleep!
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