Fall Back

It’s such a great day in the year! you know, the one where you get to put the clocks back and get an extra hour on a Saturday night to either sleep or be out for dinner with friends. I always look forward to it. The sun is actually starting to rise by the time I get up instead of getting up in total darkness. When the kids were little, I’d put them to bed, change the clocks back an hour and go to bed! what bliss! Now that they’re older, I let them stay up to enjoy the hour, too.

But this year, when I desperately needed 8:30 to roll around, I had to wait a whole extra hour.  My son was up all night with bad ear pain and I was waiting to take  him to urgent care when it opened at 8:30. Poor thing, had to wait through an extra hour of pain.  Of course, it happens like that, the one weekend he gets an ear infection, it’s the weekend of extra time!