Fall Back :: Say WHA!?

Extra hour of sleep.

Ha.

Similar to how I never really thought about handsome's having a "real job" impacting our Christmas vacay (everyone doesn't get 4 weeks off?  weird!)  I didn't think about how having a baby would impact the end of my daylight savings.  My sleeping in general, sure.  My dating and grocery shopping and wardrobe picking out, yes, yes, I know how she changes all of that.  But my extra-hour-of-sleep-because-I've-earned-it-just-by-being?  

Is nothing sacred?

And the answer is: no.  In this off-the-cuff, tongue in cheek conversation we're having here, no, nothing is sacred.  Babies weasel their way in to each and every aspect of your life.  I would compare my (now-but-not-at-5-AM) sleeping angel to something parasitic and awful, but in truth, I'm not even mad.

Sleepy, yes.  But mad, no.

Rileygirl didn't care that the clocks turned back.  She actually pulled a fast one on me, and woke up 30 minutes earlier than she usually would, which was then 90 minutes earlier than I usually would, which I would have ignored but I wasn't sure what time it really was.  I believe that is the definition of "insult to injury".  But since we were both up, and since I'm rapidly coming to the realization that I will never have a time like this again, where I just get to enjoy my girl and give her all of my lovin' I decided to just roll with it.

We snuggled and nursed, then I brought her down to the kitchen in the pre-dawn dark, and we ate waffles together.  Bless my step-father for installing the 3-levels-of-brightness under-cabinet lighting.  That glow was enough for me not to accidentally put fish in the toaster, yet still kept the ambiance.  It was sort of like a date, really.  We smiled and munched and laughed and cuddled.  It was really something.  

So while I'm still hoping that RG will hop on the "Fall Back" bandwagon, I'm going to try to enjoy these early, still mornings with her.  I'm also going to try to go to bed at 8 AM so that these early mornings don't kill me.  Because I've heard you can die from getting up to early.

<3 M.