Glory glory Halleluia! The sun arose before my kids today. It’s a miracle.
With the lack of daylight savings and the early bird tendencies of my children, the last few months have left us shuffling around in our pjs in the wee hours of the morning. And the not so wee hours. I mean, the sun wasn’t visible until at least 7:15 some mornings. Am I correct? It’s not just here in California, right? That is super late. Many many morning we were up for at least an hour and a half before ever seeing a gleaming ray of sunshine.
Then came daylight savings and 5:45 a.m. became the ungodly hour of 4:45, which offered no more light. But soon 4:45 became 5:15, became 5:30, became the great and glorious hour of 6:30 a.m.
My eyes twitched. A soft light was peering through our curtains. I heard the intermittent cries of my son over the monitor. My eyes twitched again. Then they opened. I looked over at the clock: it said 6:30 a.m. Glory glory Halleluia. Never in my life did I think I would be so happy to see 6:30 a.m.
Say what you will about daylight savings, but getting up with the sun sure beats getting up with the stars. I for one am happy to be greeted by the sun once again 🙂
Brooke Frick 
I don’t mind falling back, because not only do you get an extra hour of sleep, but the kids start going to bed one hour earlier! 🙂
LOVE love love your posts Brooke! Your thankfulness posts are so wonderfully writen and inspiring – I look forward to reading them when I get to work in the morning 🙂 You have such an honest and fresh perspective to motherhood, and so funny too! When we have kids I definitely want to start a blog too – seems like a good outlet 🙂 I love “keeping in touch” with you this way, but if you ever need to chat on the phone lt me know! Miss you all!
-Ellen 🙂
awww, thanks Ellen! You are so sweet. I was just saying to Darrell today that I have gotten so sloppy with my posts lately, as I am trying to do one every day. I write them hastily! And I haven’t gotten many responses so I am afraid I’m alienating my readers!! haha…not quite, but anyway, thanks for the encouragement! Glad you are enjoying them 🙂 We definitely have to catch up soon. Miss you girlfriend!!
Oh – and I saw your FB post about my Queen of Hearts costume – too funny! Thanks for sharing 🙂 We were “Alice in Wonderland” theme at work so I just wore my costume to Phil’s parents party. It was super easy and fun