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To ask if you have your Sat morning cuppa with or without your DH/DP

204 replies

WhatwouldStevieNicksthink · 25/01/2025 08:46

Ignore the poll - I don't know how to disable it!

Was chatting to a chum and she said she loved starting the weekend with a cup of tea in bed with her DH.

Not us! DH brings me a coffee then goes downstairs to have his whilst reading his book.

I scroll mindlessly through MN. What about you?

(I never say chum or cuppa in RL!)

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Gwenhwyfar · 25/01/2025 10:30

Meadowfinch · 25/01/2025 08:51

I'm single so I make a pot of coffee about 6,30, take it back to bed and do the Mumsnet puzzles. Then the LinkedIn puzzles. Bliss, no rush, no school run. 😊

Then I'm ready for a hot shower, breakfast and the weekly food shop. Which is where I'm going now.

Why go to the supermarket with all the families on Saturday morning if you're single?

FindusMakesPancakes · 25/01/2025 10:30

achangeofusername · 25/01/2025 08:48

YABU to use the word cuppa. I don't know what other response you need from this thread?

Guessing nobody has ever brought you a cuppa in bed in the morning. Sorry about that.

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 25/01/2025 10:30

JudgeBread · Today 08:57

Do people really do the same exact thing every Saturday morning?

Mostly, but only the very first bit of the day, and only when there's nothing specific planned which would make us do something different, e.g. get up earlier.

Cookingdisaster · 25/01/2025 10:28

"Cuppa" has nothing on "chum", that is an abuse of the eardrums!

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 25/01/2025 10:27

FoxInTheForest · 25/01/2025 10:18

Why? It's the most common way for people to refer to hot drinks, covers tea or coffee if you don't know which people drink.

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Really? I always think of a cuppa as specifically tea (although I don't say it). For some reason I'd mostly say 'a cup of tea', but just 'a coffee' rather than 'a cup of coffee'. Maybe that's just me though!

Cookingdisaster · 25/01/2025 10:25

Would love to have it in silence before everyone gets up. In reality, I'm usually drinking it at the same time as running about seeing to dcs, or after they're sorted I'll make mine.
In reality I'm so used to it though, I don't know if some days I'd want it any other way! Seeing their faces makes my morning.

Dramatic · 25/01/2025 10:24

I don't have a cuppa first thing, always breakfast first and I never eat or drink in bed so I come down and eat breakfast and then make myself a cuppa, I'll make DH one if he's around so it varies.

AyrnotAir · 25/01/2025 10:23

I'm usually up first so have one downstairs then when he wakes up il make us both one and go up and have it in bed together and chat then we get up and organised for whatever we are doing on a Saturday and Sunday. During the week he's up first for work so brings me one up when he wakes me up. Obviously this wasn't the case when our kids were little.

handsdownthebest · 25/01/2025 10:22

achangeofusername · 25/01/2025 08:48

My preference is to come downstairs and have my cuppa. In blissful silence before everyone is awake.

Me too. Love watching it get light, birds and squirrels livening up the garden. Apart from Sunday mornings when the husband brings me coffee in bed.

Alwaystired23 · 25/01/2025 10:20

In bed together, cup of tea, both on our phones, showing each things we think the other would find interesting.

Blondiebeachbabe · 25/01/2025 10:20

The word Cuppa should be banned!

bobberra · 25/01/2025 10:20

I set my alarm so I can get up and have a coffee on my own in peace. No TV, no radio, just absolute silence.

On Saturdays and Sundays I have two before getting the kids up for breakfast.

MumWifeOther · 25/01/2025 10:19

WhatwouldStevieNicksthink · 25/01/2025 08:46

Ignore the poll - I don't know how to disable it!

Was chatting to a chum and she said she loved starting the weekend with a cup of tea in bed with her DH.

Not us! DH brings me a coffee then goes downstairs to have his whilst reading his book.

I scroll mindlessly through MN. What about you?

(I never say chum or cuppa in RL!)

Coffee on the sofa with my DH, and kids snuggled in with us with their hot chocs 🫶🏽

FoxInTheForest · 25/01/2025 10:18

achangeofusername · 25/01/2025 08:48

YABU to use the word cuppa. I don't know what other response you need from this thread?

Why? It's the most common way for people to refer to hot drinks, covers tea or coffee if you don't know which people drink.

Pigeon31 · 25/01/2025 10:18

DH is proud of his coffee making skills so he always makes us both coffee in the morning and we sit and drink it together.

ChewbaccasMrs · 25/01/2025 10:17

Saschka · 25/01/2025 09:24

Don’t any of you have kids?? My morning coffee is drunk standing in the kitchen making breakfast and chivvying children to get dressed before swimming lessons. DH is usually somewhere else in the house getting ready to leave.

Yes we have 5DC but our youngest is 17 so the weekends are a lot more relaxing than they used to be,unless our DGS 5 is staying with us then we're generally woken up by 8.30 whilst he jumps on Grandad and pretends to be a Dinosaur by roaring at me(he's trying to scare the bejesus out of me)because he thinks its hilarious if it makes Nana sqeaul😆he's a little monkey.

DancingFerret · 25/01/2025 10:16

Lazy mornings with DH - tea in bed (he makes it), news on TV, scrolling iPads, and putting the world to rights.

Boring it may seem, but when I consider how other people's lives and homes have been destroyed by world events, I really value these mornings.

Rowgtfc72 · 25/01/2025 10:16

I'm usually an early riser so my morning cuppa is usually me and the dog.
On the odd occasion I sleep in dh goes off to pick up the click and collect tesco order and I put the kettle on and we have a cuppa together.

namechangeGOT · 25/01/2025 10:11

JudgeBread · 25/01/2025 08:57

Do people really do the same exact thing every Saturday morning?

Yeah! Every weekday morning my husband is up at about 4.30am and so we don't see him, I'm up at 6am and DS at 7am. We rush around getting ready for work and school and spend the rest of the week at work etc. you can shoot me if you think any of us are rushing about on a Saturday morning - I have enough variety in the week and Saturday is for the three of us to sit and chat over a cup of tea and not one of us has a rush in us!

NotaRealHousewife · 25/01/2025 10:05

The flat whites have arrived, heaven

Fawn87 · 25/01/2025 10:03

Either or. He sometimes works a Saturday. Sometimes we'll have it in bed together. Sometimes we'll get up and have it downstairs whilst pottering around. A lot depends on what time the kids are up and asking for breakfast too.

BitOutOfPractice · 25/01/2025 10:02

JudgeBread · 25/01/2025 09:45

No, why so touchy?

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Not touchy at all. Just wondering why you asked. You seemed so surprised. 🤷‍♀️

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 25/01/2025 10:00

I’m up very early, so first cup of tea is with the dogs at my feet, before we go for a walk.

Best company ever.

Ratri · 25/01/2025 10:00

Either DH or DS bring me coffee in bed on Saturdays. Every time it makes me v happy.

NotaRealHousewife · 25/01/2025 10:00

DS is 19 now and doesn't surface till around 12, we are past all the early morning chaos