Spring Forward

Tonight is day light savings time.  We turn the clocks ahead an hour so we lose an hour of sleep.  not really a big deal even if you forget.  You see for a long time, we didn't have cell phones or clocks that would change the time for you.  You would have to remember to turn our clock ahead so your alarm would ring on time to get you to church.  Really not a big deal unless you were giving a talk or leading the music.  However, for some that work on Sunday it is a bigger deal.  Melanie (my sister)could NEVER remember day light savings and she worked on Sunday's as a Pharmacist.  So she was an hour early for work in the fall and an hour late in the spring.  It became my calling to remind her on daylight savings time.  I think of her every time change because I'm suppose to call her.  She doesn't need a clock change anymore.  It isn't because  she stopped working on Sundays but she stopped working.  She stopped breathing.  She's dead now.  And has been dead for 6 years.  It was a good thing because she had suffered sooooo much.  Drug and alcohol and mental illness are a difficult combination.  It was a bad thing because now her boys don't have a mother.  They are stuck living with their awful, sorry excuse for a father now.   And we haven't seen them for two years....life is cruel sometimes