How long is your weekend lie in?

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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??

We take it in turns to have weekend lie ins and 10 is the unspoken limit. We rarely sleep but I lie in bed drinking a leisurely coffee a read, watch something of facetime friends and family without the children climbing on me and grabbing the phone

In lockdown/ during pandemic we've taken lie ins in turn and we get until 11am to as we wish -sleep, read, watch TV, go from a walk alone. Then the person who hasn't had the lie in gets 2-3 hours of their own alone time at a point during the day to do whatever they like.

It's been a sanity saver to be honest.

7.30 is a lie in for me. I have an 11 year old do don't get woken by him I just can't sleep late.

9am and we take it in turns

A lie in here is between 8 and 8:30am, but we are early birds and neither of us have ever been a fan of sleeping the morning away. Even before DC, we'd be up by 9am.

9am here. We get one weekend day each.

The kids have just started to lie in, and then we got a puppy. There's no gro-clocks for puppies.... 🙄

DH got up with DS about 30mins ago, and I'm in bed upstairs, will probably stay here until about 10am. We take it in turns. Same as you, we always go out after lunch on weekends. Before DS, we easily stayed in bed until about 12pm at weekends unless we had somewhere to be. And we don't look at it as wasting the day but taking it easy and not rushing around.

DD 7 months tends to wake any time from 5 onwards, although we do try and resist coming down before 6am. Whichever of us is having the ‘lie in’ tends to stay in bed until 8.30am latest, I think this is just a hangover from when her first nap was 9am and we didn’t want to risk waking her when the lie in parent got up.

That said she woke at 11pm last night and we had to tag team it and we’re both surviving on 2 hours’ sleep today so the idea of a lie in seems idyllic right now!

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

But clocks went back so plotting the difference

They went forward.

Weekend lie in 🤣 🤣

I WISH!

Typically around 8.30am but anywhere between 8 and 9. DH and I take a weekend day each to lie in. I think I probably would feel I was wasting the day otherwise but we've always been get up and out early people.... I hate arriving places in the afternoon with every other bugger (pre covid).

It doesn't apply to me now being retired, I get up when I feel like it. When at work we always lay in at weekends, we were fortunate to have a child who, once past the baby stage, also liked laying in. If he woke early, he'd come in with us and go back to sleep.

Generally husband used to get up about 10, I followed in half an hour or so. It was nice having relaxed, cosy mornings.

Hated having to get up at 7 when going to work.

I don't have a partner but DS is old enough to be unsupervised for an hour or 2 in the mornings.

I am an early bird though so I'm always up by 8am at the very latest.

We have breakfast in bed Saturday and Sunday anytime we wake from 7.30 to 8.30, then lounge around reading until about 9 or 9.30. When I get up I lounge around somewhere else so I wouldn't see a longer lie in as wasting the day.

We have one lie in each, normally around 10ish

About 9am on average.

But yes, don’t really get the ‘wasting the day’ comments during lockdown. You might as well take the time to relax and do nothing.

Whenever I want, usually 10.30. even if we have plans we don't tend to do them until the afternoon

I cherish my Sunday morning lie ins. We take turns at the weekend and 11am is the agreed cut off.

I always do the bedding on Saturday so I also enjoy the fresh bed. I don’t sleep though, I enjoy coffee, audiobooks or netiflix and mumsnet.

We have taken turns for years and always bring each other breakfast in bed.

One gets up at 5-6 ish and the other at 7ish.!!

Neither DH or I have ever really liked a 'lie in' ... when our DS was younger it would be much more of a treat for us to have a proper morning or day 'off' on our own so I would happily get up early and go out for the morning - or DH would like to get up early and play golf for example.

Our DS is at Uni now and I am furlough and bored senseless with 'lie ins' - can't wait to get back to work .

Between 7-8am. DS is waking up around 5am at the moment so if it’s light outside I’m happy!

Kids fed and watered and I’m now sat in bed on MN will get up for lunch!🤭

1pm for me. I'm a night owl though. DH lies in til between 11am-12. On non lie in days we get up at 10ish as 8 year old DS entertains himself for a bit. We like our sleep. And get a lot of judgement from some family members.

Ten is usually our agreement - ie one gets up with the kids and the other wakes them at ten. However I do tend to leave dh longer if the kids aren’t driving me too mad!

I've never been able to lie in so just get up at 7. My kids knock about any time from 6 but dont need supervising anymore so I just doze then join them for breakfast.