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telling time
Mar. 27th, 2016 10:23 pmI've written before how Gwen locates events in times by three means: "Yesterday", "Saturday", or "Long Time Ago". She has in recent weeks added a new mechanism: "A Very Long Time Ago", often further elaborated with "When I Was Three". I love it.
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The switch to DST was this morning, for which I am entirely grateful -- another hour of daylight in the evening when I want to be awake and productive? Daylight in the morning coming an hour later, thus when Gwen gets up with the sun it isn't as insanely early? I know a lot of people hate DST and would love to get rid of it altogether (I'm in the "let's switch and never go back" campaign: Yes, I know that means that noon wouldn't actually be noon, but I find it easier to make noon a conventional thing than to reorganize the entire world schedule so that life happens shifted one hour ahead of when it currently does.), and also find it difficult to adjust to, both ways, but I've never found a serious difficulty, and am extremely lucky that Gwen basically doesn't blink at suddenly being put to bed an hour earlier when it is still light out. I am so glad my child loves sleeping.
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Speaking of loving sleeping, I'm glad DST didn't switch over the night before. As it was, Gwen slept until 8:00 and then lay in bed whining/whimpering until I shouted sleepily for her to go back to sleep or get up. 8:00 is later than she usually sleeps, and on weekends she's lately really gotten down the routine of getting up and heading downstairs to play w/o telling us that she's awake and is not going to wake us and is going to go downstairs and play, so I fully expected she'd get up. Instead, she came, crawled in between us, and next thing I know all five of us (three people, two cats) are all wedged in amongst each other and it's 10:30am. Friday night was a later than usual night, and Friday was a busy day, but I didn't expect 14 hours from her! But I'm glad that we didn't sleep until 10:30 on the day the clocks went forward...
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The switch to DST was this morning, for which I am entirely grateful -- another hour of daylight in the evening when I want to be awake and productive? Daylight in the morning coming an hour later, thus when Gwen gets up with the sun it isn't as insanely early? I know a lot of people hate DST and would love to get rid of it altogether (I'm in the "let's switch and never go back" campaign: Yes, I know that means that noon wouldn't actually be noon, but I find it easier to make noon a conventional thing than to reorganize the entire world schedule so that life happens shifted one hour ahead of when it currently does.), and also find it difficult to adjust to, both ways, but I've never found a serious difficulty, and am extremely lucky that Gwen basically doesn't blink at suddenly being put to bed an hour earlier when it is still light out. I am so glad my child loves sleeping.
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Speaking of loving sleeping, I'm glad DST didn't switch over the night before. As it was, Gwen slept until 8:00 and then lay in bed whining/whimpering until I shouted sleepily for her to go back to sleep or get up. 8:00 is later than she usually sleeps, and on weekends she's lately really gotten down the routine of getting up and heading downstairs to play w/o telling us that she's awake and is not going to wake us and is going to go downstairs and play, so I fully expected she'd get up. Instead, she came, crawled in between us, and next thing I know all five of us (three people, two cats) are all wedged in amongst each other and it's 10:30am. Friday night was a later than usual night, and Friday was a busy day, but I didn't expect 14 hours from her! But I'm glad that we didn't sleep until 10:30 on the day the clocks went forward...
