DP blaming me.

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I work FT, DP is SAHD.

This morning the alarm went at 07.40am, I switched it off and had a snooze.

Next thing I open my eyes, check the clock and it's 09.05am! I need to be in work by 09.30am and it's at least 40min drive! Fuck!

So I go into bathroom, quick wash, teeth brushed etc etc, no shower because of how late I am, make up and hair then clothes. I don't go downstairs until I'm ready to go.

During this time I'm thinking 'why hasn't dd woke up, this is really late for her' It has happened occasionally on the weekend where she has slept a little later and we've taken advantage and had a lie in so we thought it was one of these mornings, but naturally I worry, so said to DP 'we best check on her' So we did.

She was asleep, and we gently woke her up. She was a little grumpy but we thought it may have been because she slept too heavy.

Anyway, we all go downstairs (at this point I'd have breakfast with them, but due to the time I was leaving straight away), then I look at the clock on the dining room wall. It says 07.20am. Checked TV, same time.

Turns out, my alarm clock was wrong and it was 2 hours earlier than I thought! No wonder dd was grumpy.

Of course DP is now in a terrible mood, blaming me, and in general not being very nice about it. We had a row I left the house anyway and now I'm in work an hour earlier than I should.

Surely it's not anyones fault that the clock was wrong.

Could the little one possibly need to get up or nursery? OP FGS answer this one

Moral of the story-let sleeping LOs lie!

My dh once woke up, spied it was 8am, jumped in the shower, got dressed and went to work...

On the way to work, the roads were really quiet. Then when he reached the office, the other staff who are usually in at 7am, weren't there...

He received a text from me asking where he was. When he told me, I asked "WHY??? It's Sunday you LOON!"

Ooops

Ha! DD did not need to get up for nursery, they had not planned on going out either, to my knowledge anyway.

It's just a routine we have during the week, no one sleeps later than 9am [shrugs]

Just the way we do things. And we like to spend breakfast time together before I go to work.

DP always gets up when I put the hairdryer on at my dressing table in our bedroom - I always give notice of this i.e a gentle 'DP, hairdryer going on I made the mistake of frightening the life out of him once because he wasn't expecting it - so that's what we've agreed to do.

Generally, while I'm at my dressing table DP wakes dd and brings her into me - dd & I have a smile and a cuddle then they go downstairs and I follow shortly afterwards.

The time thing really threw us this morning because dd rarely sleeps later than 08.30am.

I'll know to double check in future.

Feels like I'm over explaining.

Got to say there would be murders here if sleeping people who needed to go precisely nowhere were aroused simply because it was The Decreed Hour. If it was then discovered to be two hours before said time, there'd be a double murder.

God I wish I could stay in bed til 7.40

We would have laughed and it's Friday, grumpy old sod!!!

But it was almost half seven not half five, why on earth don't they get up til after nine anyway?

Haha DP did this once woke me up on a saturday at 6am yelling his head off he was an hour late for setting off for work while I sat up in bed with a proper face. After about 15 minutes I timidly suggested that as it was Saturday surely he didn't need to go to work this early, if at all? He then blamed ME for not pointing this out before

YANBU this is really no one's fault. Certainly nothing to get so arsey about. Wasn't like you woke them at 5am

DH and I went on hol to france with DC instead of putting clock forward we put it back, spent 2 days moaning that everything closed up early that people ate early and nothing that was advertised9kids club) was on. finally realised and spent rest of hol sniggering, still gives us a laugh now years later

Just seen you dry your hair in the bedroom in the mornings. If either DH or I need to make a noise early we would go downstairs and not disturb the other one.

but I get up around 07.40am, that's not early and I'm not drying my hair until at least 08.30am.

The shower makes a noise too, would you take that downstairs?

FWIW, and I understand it's entirely a matter of personal preference, but I think 9 am on a weekday is very late and he should be up and doing when you go to work, out of solidarity if nothing else :)

It is early here. Shower doesn't make as much noise as drying your hair in the same room as someone sleeping.

I had to stop my DS (15) from leaving for school at 7.05 am last week.
He thought it was 8.05.
Was rather ammusing, he had been up since 6 thinking it was 7!

9.05am is a cracking lie in!

Although admittedly I was shocked when I saw the time because I'm normally so good at getting up. But I had no reason to doubt my alarm clock so it felt like the time on the clock if you see what I mean...

About being up and doing, he generally is. That's why he got up in the first place because to him, he had also slept in.

It was only when we realised the correct time that it all went tits up.

mumeeee, shower doesn't make as much noise but the boiler when it kicks in does believe me

I work shifts so a week day is like a weekend to me. So I often sleep in until after 9 and DH doesn't even think of waking me before he goes to work. Things can still get done after 9am

Anyway, it's all blown over now and you'll be laughing about it in years to come. 'Remember the time...'

Hilarious how many parts of your life can be picked apart, from where you dry your hair to what method of waking up you use.

Only on mumsnet.

Then again, I posted my story prepared for this, it is AIBU afterall :)

oh there's a lot of that fluffiphlox

My youngest is now 20 so the days when I had to get up early have long gone. But even when the DDs were little and they did sleep in I would leave them sleeping. I do get up early when I need to.