I just did a little bit of internet research on George Vernon Hudson. Let me sum up all you need to know about old George.

1. He was born on 20 April 1867 in England.
2. At age nine he started collecting insects.
3. He got picked on a lot in school for being a weird kid that collected bugs.
4. At 13 he wrote his first small manuscript on insects (with detailed paintings).
5. In 1881 his family moved to New Zealand.
6. He got a job at the post office in 1883.
7. He completed his first book (An elementary manual of New Zealand entomology) at the age of 19; it was published in April 1892.
8. He married Florence Woodhead Gillon in December of 1893.
9. On 16 October 1895 he presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society proposing daylight saving time.
10. He died in 1946 on April 5th, survived by his daughter.
11. Despite having had a daughter of his own, he hated parents of small children.

Okay, I may have made up #11. 

I used to love “falling back” an hour each year. That extra sixty minutes of sleeping in the next morning was fantastic! And that feeling would continue the next several days – waking up before my alarm on work days, knowing that I didn’t have to get up yet and could relax a bit longer.

Then I had kids.

Yeah, it’s not so cool now. And my alarm, which used to go off at a pretty consistent 7:30 AM, now starts saying, “Oh Mommy” at 6:30.

There is no snooze button anymore.

Combine that with Adam refusing to go to sleep at bedtime lately and both boys taking turns waking up the past couple of nights and you’ve got one exhausted “Oh Mommy”.

This kid really needs to adjust his internal clock to recognize daylight savings time soon – or move to Arizona (where the entire state refuses to observe it).