We’ve already adjusted fairly well to the time change, now we just have to get used to a new schedule. It doesn’t get dark until about 10:15pm here and until then it is very bright…you can’t really tell the difference between 6pm and 9pm. Crazy. So, that makes it a bit more difficult to go to bed at 9:30 when it looks like the daytime outside.
Monday was our first “real” day with Ben heading off to work. My first success on Monday was figuring out how to turn on the stove to cook some eggs from breakfast (adios Captain Crunch and Fruit Loops…). Turning on a stove shouldn’t be too difficult, especially with only 2 possible buttons, but it took me 5 minutes to turn it on. Finally, eggs were cooked and I was ready to turn the stove off…my next biggest accomplishment for Monday was figuring out how to turn the stove OFF. That was a little more of an issue…I wasn’t sure what I was going to do about having a smoking hot stove top on all day. I started wildly pushing buttons, but nothing worked! I send Ben off to work (I’m sure he was a bit worried and thinking…”Oh dear goodness, please don’t burn the house down!”), and scrounged around for the stove top directions. After reading for several minutes, I pushed two buttons and (as Belgians would say) viola! Off went the stove- tragedy adverted.