How long is your weekend lie in?

[InsideNumberNine]

If you have young kids that need supervision, and if you have a partner, how long is your weekend lie in?

Since lockdown, ours have become longer and longer. DM phoned this morning at 9.45am and was shocked that DH was still in bed and that we're "wasting the day". DS is 4 so one of us gets up with him and the other lies in, usually getting up about 10.30am. I don't tend to go back to sleep, I piss about on my phone or read.

We then kick about til lunch and try and be out for the whole afternoon if the weather is fine. To be honest, life is all about wasting the day right now, we've got nowhere to go!

So out of interest, what time do you get up when having a lie in??

2 year old and 6 month old and today we were having a cuddle in the big bed watching Peppa Pig... at 6:45am 😬😂

8am 🥴. Unless she's at her dads then probably around 10am!

7.30 is a usual weekend get up for me, and that is an hours lie in compared to mid week. Kids will be awake about an hour before that.
I'm so looking forward to the next 2 weeks where there will be no alarm clock, except for DH you needs to have a teeshirt on, and be sat infront of his computer by 9am. No risk that isnt going to happen. Kids are 9 and 11.

Between 9 30 and 10 30. Terrible sleepers but do sleep in on a wkend morning. Had to wake my eldest at 11 today!

There are no limits on a lie in. Psychologically it would ruin the whole point of it for us.

Saturday is technically my "day off" and Sunday is technically his "day off". We even text our breakfast order and get breakfast in bed.

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There are no limits on a lie in. Psychologically it would ruin the whole point of it for us.

Saturday is technically my "day off" and Sunday is technically his "day off". We even text our breakfast order and get breakfast in bed.

Oh and we have 2 under 3.

4yo and 1yo. I get a lie in on Saturday, DH on Sunday. Usually around 9am which is a lie on compared to getting up at 7 with the kids.

Off point somewhat (mine is 15 so if I got up at 3pm I'm still up before her) but I HATE the 'wasting the day' comments. If I'm tired and want to sleep for an entire weekend it is, to my mind, a weekend well spent. Nothing interesting happens at 8am on a Sunday.

When the DC were very little then the lie in person would get up about 9am. They're 8 & 10 now and happy to entertain themselves, DH is the earlier riser and will get up about 8am, make anybody breakfast who wants it, sort the dog etc. I almost never get up before 9 but usually about 9:30/10 ish, not always asleep, often watching the news/online on my phone etc. I really look forward to it. I'm a night owl and getting up at or even pre 6am with small children was a real nightmare for me!!

I lie in til my daughter wakes up. So anywhere between 6:45 and 7:30 usually, though occasionally lets me sleep in til 8

We are normally up from 6/6:30 to get ready for work and my DD ready for nursery through the week so any later than that feels like a massive treat.

My DH gets a lie in til whenever he wants on a Saturday as me and DD do her ballet class so don't need him up and we all get up together on a Sunday

As long as I can before the guilt of leaving DP with DD downstairs since 5am.

So usually about 10am

Can’t stand lying in, makes me feel gross. Happy to come downstairs, have breakfast and potter around in pjs til 10am latest but usually up, showered and dressed by 10:30 otherwise it affects my mood.

We have an 18 mo the old but he doesn’t wake up until 7:30ish, comes into bed with us for half and hour of cartoons then downstairs for breakfast

Youngest is 2. I never lie in, as DH lets me go to bed early and I prefer early starts. DH sometimes lies in til 9am.

I'm a single parent and I get up when the youngest (nearly 4) does. I get them some food and drinks and then take a huge mug of coffee back to bed with me. I stay there a while, if I can.

I set alarm for 9.30am i would feel like am neglecting if any later altho could probably get away with it untill about 10.30. dd is 5 an happily plays in her room or is sleeping in bed I can go down and have a coffee and she asks to stay upstairs. This is only a recent thing so not sure how long it will last but am enjoying every minute.

DH and I take it in turns...no time limit...sleep til you wake and then we enjoy the day.

We did until 9am. But I’d generally spend mine drinking coffee and reading.

My lie in is more “laid” in!!!

I'm a bit stupid and always get up at 6am even when my partner tells me to lay in (what is wrong with me?!). On the odd occasion I do lay in, I. Usually up by around 8/8.30am. To be honest though, if it works for you and your family, don't change anything - it's not affecting anyone else!

8:30 generally - but dd1 who is an absolute early bird insists on checking with me whether she can get up (she's 10 & perfectly capable of telling the time!) - so usually just dozing/reading/mn after that til I fancy a coffee or need a wee.

8ish.

I get up at 6am during the week, and around 8am at weekend. But am awake from 6am and ‘doze’ or read until I get out of bed.

I had covid about a year ago and was exhausted for a long time, work was also manic. When it was really bed I could sleep to 11am during the weekend. I only did this about four times and I always felt really guilty - Even though I was shattered.

I am still in bed now, about to get up.

But clocks went back so plotting the difference

When they were small, probably 8 at the latest. But that would require them staying in their room playing quietly, or me cuddling them back to sleep in my bed.

Now they're older - 10 & 11, they go to sleep late and sleep in late. I woke at 6.30 this morning .

When the kids were small anything past 7am was a bonus win! Now they are 12 and 16 and you are lucky if you see them before lunchtime on a weekend.

DH likes to get up early and potter around but I do love lazing in bed with a cuppa and a magazine until 9.