Acceptable morning noise in your house?

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DP woke (separate bedrooms on account of DP's insomnia) with a loud yawny stretch at 5:05am. He has since been up and down the stairs several times, flushed the loo twice, put away last night's dishes, boiled the kettle, tinkled away with crockery and cutlery making his breakfast and lunch for work, zipped and unzipped his backpack loads of times, used a therapeutic (and bleepy) infrared sauna, rummaged for something in the laundry cupboard outside my door. And it goes on.
He hasn't actually said anything and probably thinks he's being quiet. For the last half hour he has been out training in the garden, so finally quiet. But I'm wide awake and my alarm is about to go.

None of us actually has to be up until 7am in our house. After years of sleep deprivation with young DC, and work that often has me up past midnight after the jobs with DC and the house are done, respecting the sanctity of the sleeping hours is like a mantra to me. If I am up after the rest if the house has gone to bed, or wake early, I keep any movement to an absolute minimum. I don't start creeping around doing stuff in the house, but try to stay in bed, quietly getting on with work on my laptop (or MNing); zero noise. DD1 (11) struggles with wonky sleep like DP so I am always trying to make sure she doesn't get woken up unnecessarily. She came into my bed in the early hours, otherwise I'd have been straight up to tell DP to be quiet. Tiptoeing and whispering, of course.

Do you have any house rules around early rising noise levels at your house, and what are they?

Some of what you mentioned are really things he cannot avoid, much as you want quiet you can't expect him to not go to the loo or boil the kettle.
Is your bedroom right above the kitchen? Could you swop? Or try ear plugs?

Hmm tricky one...

I'm an early riser, and I'm a sense I'm quite in awe at how much he can get done in a morning and admire his get up and go! I have a DH who will happily lie in until late (self employed, can do what he likes) and I often dream of him becoming an early bird and seizing the day with me!

On the other hand, I appreciate you're tired. We have a 4 year old and I'm 6 months pregnant, it's tough going. I don't remember the last time I slept well. But I sort of just adapt to it, I go to bed around 9pm so that the 5am starts are more bearable. DD has always been a bad sleeper, I'm just used to it now.

I don't have any advice really, other than I hope you figure it out for your own sanity!

Honestly, I know where you’re coming from. My DH gets up at 5 and thinks he’s ‘quiet’ but he really isn’t 😂 I remember after having DD4 and feeling exhausted asking him to keep the noise down in the mornings, he was genuinely shocked. I think he prides himself on being quiet or something. I just put up with it now and usually end up getting up myself (quietly) and luckily it doesn’t tend to wake the DDs.

Maybe you could use ear plugs? What age are your DC? Mine are still little and baby gets up for feeds so no ear plugs here.

Oh lordy, I was mad Thanks for responding.
Having had the day to reflect, I'll talk to him when he gets in later. I softened a bit when I got down as he'd also made the DC and me packed lunches for school and work.
Annoyingly, I like to think of myself as a relative early bird, but he totally goes for it at this time of year as the days grow longer.
We normally say that flushing the loo can wait until morning if someone has to go in the night (we have howling pipes), and we have a few identified squeaky floorboards and cupboard doors which are out of bounds after dark. This morning, it was mainly the prolonged and enthusiastic tinkering in the kitchen that riled me, although it was for a good cause.