I bitched about the Spring-forward time changelast year LOL.  

We screwed up and slept in today.  I'm sure we'll all be exhausted tomorrow.  And, I am not looking forward to tonight when Madeline fights her earlier bedtime.  As it is, she's still having issues getting to sleep at night.  

I do enjoy it being lighter in the evenings, though.  

testing starts tomorrow for most testable grades in our district(3rd grade started last week) and I want to know who the idiot was that decided testing students during the first week following the time change was a good idea.  They can shove their notes home telling me the best way to prepare my student is by making sure she is well rested and has a good breakfast!  Between test anxiety and the time change, there is no way she's going to sleep easily, and then I have to pull her out of bed at what feels like an hour early tomorrow... oh yeah, she and her peers will be well rested, I'm sure!

in AZ, all I get is a bigger time difference with my parents back in New England.  We don't believe in DST, apparently.  (There are lots of things we don't believe in.  Like public schools, and corporations ever being wrong.  And the undeniable evil of Sheriff Joe, though hopefully that'll change this time around.)

The one bright spot is my Dad telling people with a straight face that he's glad daylight savings time came  early this year, because the extra hour of daylight will make the snow melt more quickly. Sadly, he says quite a few people thought he was serious. :)

And Easter is crashing into St. Patrick's Day this year.  I'm one of those corny people that has holiday decorations for every holiday and I had to put them both up at the same time this year.

Are Easter and DST linked or is that a coincidence I wonder.

I loved the longer day today though.  Now we need some warmth.

I'm a DST fan, and love having evening light!  My poor DH and DD will leave the house in pitch black tomorrow, which is too bad, but at least it will still be light when they come home!

Surprisingly, almost no one was late for Sunday school today.

Not totally related to DST - but Easter seems so early this year, and Passover isn't until mid-April.  Usually they are closer to each other.  This year, Purim, a different Jewish Holiday, falls on Easter weekend, which means our non-Jewish Temple staff members had to be asked if they would volunteer to work Good Friday and Easter Sunday.  Talk about an awkward situation.  I was not really in on the planning, but wonder if we could have avoided the conflicts.

That would have been unfortunate tomorrow morning.

except the time difference between my folks went from 16 hours to 15 hours.

Funnily enough, the parts of Australia that believe in DST also passed legislation to make it start earlier and end later, so we don't go back an hour until April. I don't mind in the slightest! Well, except for the fact that Jess doesn't get time changes, of course. But that's just a given at this point!

But noooooo, some of America just has to be different.  One of these places is my brother's home, in Indiana.  It is bad enough that part of the year, they are 3 hours different from us, and sometimes, 2 hours.

And even more confusing is that my SIL tells me that even their town is different from that of some of their friends, which makes parties, etc. difficult at times.

I am not one of these "I can't ever get used to it" folks.  At first, I can tell, but after a week or two, I get used to it.