Once upon a time, I used to love Daylight Savings Time. In fact, I used to look forward to it; I mean, how could you not appreciate an extra hour of sleep?
And then I had a child. An early-rising child. Yesterday, she arose at her “normal” time according to her inner baby alarm–6:30 a.m. Unfortunately, according to DST, it was 5:30 a.m. This morning was even worse: 4 frickin’ a.m. When I calmly explained to her after her 10th wake-up call that she still had three hours to sleep, she claimed she did not receive the time-change memo.
Tonight? Why bother to go to bed at all? Good thing it’s Halloween and I’ll be able to stuff myself with sugary solace. Speaking of which….
Top Three Things I Love About Halloween
(And the pre-Halloween parties that go with it)
1. Breakfast (pumpkin bread, Twix, Smarties)
2. Lunch (M&Ms, Snickers, Licorice, Hershey’s bar)
3. Dinner (Lays Chips, Reece’s, Take 5, Twix, suckers and Skittles [for dessert, of course] )
Happy Halloween!!!!!!!!!
P.S. Pics of Extreme Makeover: Den Edition will be posted when the paint finally dries (hopefully by the New Year.) In the meantime, it’s kinda like the backdrop of the first picture below, only redder.
I'm a Canadian-born mom of two, former Denver Post columnist, family travel writer, editor of MileHighMamas.com and 9News contributor. Expert on all things Utah, Denver, family and travel. Lover of laughter and life. Happily married to a man obsessed with growing The Great Pumpkin. 