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AIBU?

To just really, really hate mornings?

97 replies

stqueen · 13/01/2016 10:43

Just that. Especially in winter when it's so fucking cold. I always wake up feeling tired & sluggish, regardless of how much I've slept and how many times DD woke in the night.

It takes me ages to get my shit together , if DH is around I don't speak to him or if I do it's mumbling & groaning, which usually creates tension & friction before the day has started!

Now, the other way - I can happily stay up until 2, 3 in the morning (can't and don't very often these days but still), and when I do I can be very productive & inspired! But mornings, no.

Is it just me or anyone else feel like this? I wish I was need to become an early bird.

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Wolfiefan · 14/01/2016 22:29

I bloody hate mornings!
I get as much as possible done the night before. (If I had to sort uniforms and packed lunches in the morning then my kids would be naked and hungry!)
I could happily sit up till the early hours.
I don't sleep well anyway.
FWIW I got a wake up light alarm for Christmas and it does seem to help a bit

Brokenbiscuit · 14/01/2016 22:36

I'm an owl too. I definitely recommend the Lumie sunrise clock. It won't turn you into a lark, sadly, but I do find it helps me wake up more gently. Tbh, it just helps not having to wake up in the dark!

Butteredparsnips · 14/01/2016 22:39

Yes yes yes to what sorenoggin said.

If mornings are the best part of the day; You can keep them.

Destinysdaughter · 14/01/2016 22:46

I hate mornings too and this thread has inspired me to get my teasmade out as I'm useless without a cuppa in the mornings! Every little helps...

expatinscotland · 14/01/2016 22:50

YANBU. I have to have a shower and two large mugs of coffee before I'm remotely alive. Am not really functioning well till after noon. I could easily stay up till 2-3am. Or later if I did not have to get up in the morning at all.

I'd make a great vampire, happy to skip high noon for good.

ifcatscouldtalk · 14/01/2016 22:59

I am a chatty, friendly type post 10am . I have even had people at school/work say "are you ok?, you seemed a bit quiet this morning" i think to myself thats because i was still bloody waking up. My dd was a real early riser when smaller, it hated that aspect of the early years.

ifcatscouldtalk · 14/01/2016 23:00

I hated not it!!

LariyahSpen · 14/01/2016 23:07

You just described me! I'm horrible in the morning. I feel I may die when my baby wakes up at 7.30am, many days I've been close to tears in fact!

mawbroon · 14/01/2016 23:08

YY to 'You're just lazy' and the even less helpful 'you need to go to bed earlier'

Fuck off!

Pipestheghost · 14/01/2016 23:12

I'm a night owl too, 2 dc's are the same, so mornings in our house are horrendous. I love the school holidays when we can rise from our pits at a more natural hour suited to our body clocks

DisappointedOne · 14/01/2016 23:16

I used to have to get DD out of bed and take her still asleep to baby classes that had the audacity to start at 10:30/11am!

Krampus · 14/01/2016 23:28

I'm a natural Owl, its lessening now that I'm in my mid 40's but compared to many of my peers I am still owlish. I swear that something happens to my brain past 11pm, its like a switch being turned on. My husband works the other way round.

After a couple of adult decades (and past the stage of babies with their selfish demands ) I have changed my methods. If at all possible I need 2 hours to wake up, i dont need to leave the house until 8.30 atm so I get up at 6. The only thing that gets me up is knowing that at least its not NOW I need to function. I go into auto pilot and make packed lunches whilst making tea, then snooze to crap morning tv. Then eventually move to get the kids to get brekkie, whilst I move onto coffee and my own food.

It has a couple of benefits:
I force myself up knowing there's nothing I need to do straight away. I can sleep in all I like but it will make no diference.
It's the only way I can make sure that I'm tired enough to get to sleep the next night.

My teenager chooses to do the same, he seems like an Owl along with the usual teenage can sleep to 3 pm. He tells us to get him up as early as posible so he can come downstairs in a semi coma. We've tried leaving him as long as possible, leaving him enough time to get up and dressed with some down time. Nope, early keeps him on some type of functioning.

Krampus · 14/01/2016 23:42

I have managed to take a few school holidays off over the last decade due to getting lucky with contract finishing dates. Those periods and weekends we are still all snoozing away until mid morning, lunchtime whilst my husband wakes up at 5 am. He just does

80sMum · 14/01/2016 23:51

stqueen your opening post could have been describing me! I often start doing things like craft projects at about midnight and get involved in what I am doing. Before I know it, it's 3 in the morning and I have to force myself to go to bed.
It takes me a good half hour to get out of bed in the morning and 2 hours before I am ready to leave the house.
I need somehow to reset my body clock.

Wilma123 · 14/01/2016 23:59

I have always been a night owl working late 2-3 am etc, but things change I now have 3 teenagers to get lively for school and me dawdling and stomping round like one of them wouldn't get us anywhere, I think the time come where u. have to suck it up and get on with it

Seren85 · 15/01/2016 00:01

Another night owl here. Getting up to an alarm, regardless of what time it is set for, is physically painful. I lay everything out the night before so I can get up as late as possible and I do the bear minimum to get ready. Breakfast at work etc. I can be almost falling asleep all day and promising myself an early night but as soon as it gets to 11pm I'm wide awake and can easily be up til 3 or 4am. If I could work 11-7 or even 12-8, that would be perfect.

superoz · 15/01/2016 00:02

I regularly go to bed at 1am, I always mean to go to bed earlier but I always end up filling the time up on Mumsnet. dh is the same and dd1 is a budding night owl too even though she is only 8.

This is not a good combination because come the morning nobody can get out of bed. dd1 sleeps through the alarm, I wake her up at 8am (meant to be up earlier myself) and she still takes 15 minutes to get out of bed. I'm frantically running around like a headless chicken getting everybody ready while shouting "we're laaaate!".

This week we've been getting to school just in the nick of time before doors close. This is only because I've set all our clocks to run 10 minutes faster to fool everyone into thinking they're late.

Oh, look it's midnight. I really must go to bed...

Needtobebetter · 15/01/2016 01:33

I absolutely hate mornings, my job is 8-5 but I wish include work 11-7 as it'd work much better for me. I've never been a morning person, I tried for a while when is get up at 5.30 and make a lovely breakfast and for a while it worked. Then I started eating the lovely breakfast and falling back to sleep on the sofa, so in the end I went back to getting up at my usual time again.

I used to believe that I'd start to enjoy mornings once I had a job and was no longer a student. I didn't. Then again when I had DS1 but it got so much worse. Now I have DS2 I'm constantly grotty and taking painkillers for my headaches, but by 11pm I'm raring to go. I can organise my entire world at that time of the night. Unfortunately, DS1 wakes up and 6am every day.

I don't think it's something that can be changed, I dread mornings because I can barely function and with a 3 yo and a baby that's not ideal.

Purplerain067 · 15/01/2016 01:35

I hate mornings too. Such a night owl.

HarrietSchulenberg · 15/01/2016 01:41

I'm with Gertrude Stein on mornings. Apparently she believed that they were only bearable when approached gently from the other side.

Itscliffmas · 15/01/2016 04:07

This is me! I do the working out the latest I can get up and press snooze way too many times.
I'm on annual leave at the minute and have broken my body clock a little, Monday morning is going to be harsh!

MariaV0nTrapp · 15/01/2016 04:34

Oh op, you sound like me. Im wide awake all night til around 2 am and have to be up early. I have a 6m old teething dd too so when indoor sleep it's broken. Look at the time I'm posting this now.. 4.30 am, I went to sleep at 2ish and I've been awake for the last 30 mins with Dd. The kids will be up for school at 7 15am and I can hear the bloody birds outside already. I won't want to get out of bed till lunchtime and then I'll be sleepy all day till around 9 when my mind comes alive. I hate it. I don't know what to do about it. Dh hates it, he's a cheery morning git too but wakes me up in the morning early, purely to piss me off I think. Then I'm In a bloody mood all day.

She's gone back to sleep now so I'm going to try to too.

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MariaV0nTrapp · 15/01/2016 04:36

I do not indoor.. frigging autocorrect

SuffolkNWhat · 15/01/2016 07:22

I have found my people! I'm currently being climbed over by small children as I try to bring myself to leave the duvet. I fear the duvet has accepted me as one of its own and if I leave now I'll lose its trust.

madmomma · 15/01/2016 08:37

I fucking despise everyone in the mornings. Almost more if I've had an early night, weirdly. I could do some really bad things to people first thing. I'm not too happy all morning actually, but by 8pm I'm sweetness and light.

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