Daylight Savings

Today I was an hour late to early Sunday meetings, due to Daylight Savings. I had totally forgot that we needed to change our clocks last night.

It reminded me of Daylight Savings 12 years ago. We were on the way to the airport listening to the radio to leave for our honeymoon, and the announcer reminded everyone about the time change. We both looked at each other in horror and realized that with the time change, our flight would be leaving in just a few minutes! We rushed to the airport, parked the car in long term parking and ran all the way to the terminal, because we didn't want to wait for a shuttle. We arrived to the gate panting and out of breath. The employee told us that they were making the last call for passengers and that we could probably make the flight, but our luggage would not. We had missed our honeymoon flight because of daylight savings!

Fortunately, our flight was to Southern California and another plane was leaving in a few hours. We changed flights and played around in the airport waiting for the plane to take us on our honeymoon.

Back to the present day...tonight we played a game with the kids to see how many clocks there were in our house that needed to be updated to the new time. All of the kids took a guess at how many clocks we had in our house to change. Ari guessed 7, Keya guessed 12 and Lexy guessed 11. After running through each room of our home, looking for clocks, watches, cell phones, computers, TVs, VCRs, cars, microwaves and everything else with a clock. Our final count for the night was 34 total clocks in our home that had to be changed! Wow, all that for just a few more minutes of sunlight?

- Andy & Kids