It was a loooong week at our house. I have always despised the time change, boycotting by referring to any hour of the day and then adding on the correct "old time" for months. Then we had kids and the time change was even more disastrous. For years I thought it was the kids that made it so hard, but I now realize that it is also me whose behavior suffers because I get cranky when I'm overtired too!
Even though we are homeschooling, the kids still feel the time change, especially with many of our activities being later in the evening, pushing bedtime back to "new time" even if they could have used to go to bed earlier when their bodies said they were tired. Then those overtired kids fall into bed and their internal clocks wake them up at the time that is now an hour earlier... but we made it through!
A fantastic treat for our Friday was waking up this morning to a little more than a dusting of snow. The kids were so excited that the minute we were done with school they bundled up and rushed out the door to play in it. It wasn't much for playing in, but there has been so much rain it was so cold last night that there were lots of frozen puddles to collect "ice burgs" from. They were soaking wet five minutes in. On a fifty degree day it might drizzle on them and they would complain of being freezing and wet, but kids never seem to care about being cold and wet when they are actually cold and wet, so they stayed out for a long time!
