aibu to now LOVE getting up at 0630 on a saturday?

[SeasonalVag]

Years of crap sleep has now got me loving my early weekends.......its like Stockholm syndrome.

I get so much done, about to paint my wall. And I'll be first in at the shops. I mourned my lie ins for years, now I'm ready for action....anybody else?!

I get up at 3.45am when I'm working days, I don't mind that but I'm definitely ready for bed by 9pm.

My DS is still right in the middle of early wakings so I see 6am quite often.

I woke up just after 6 the other weekend and both kids were still asleep. I knew if I went back to sleep I'd just feel more tired when I was woken up half an hour or so later so I just got up. Coffee, MN and peace!

Sleet has turned to snow now (Gloucestershire)

I was like that at uni- used to have a coffee and a smoke and chill out for an hour or two before lectures. 'Twas lovely.

Now DS has been up since 5.30 and DD just woke too and Zzzzzzz

I'm an "up at 5am for work" type too Hermione! That plus tiny child means that I'm really happy with an extra hour at weekends, which I got today! Baby fed and back to sleep, dog's been outside and been fed, DH won't be up until 8 today so I'm having a cuppa, MNing and expressing milk for DD to have while I'm at work next week. Never understood the sleeping in until 10am thing well, maybe when I was a student but not since and that was longer ago than I care to admit - you lose such a big chunk of the day! Like everyone else though, by 10pm I'm gone!!

I like getting up early too - anything from 5.50-7am on a weekend. I like the peace and quiet before everyone wakes up.

Eventually your little ones turn into teenagers and will happily stay in bed til gone noon if you don't disturb them. Hell, they'll even try to even if you do disturb them!
I've often left them there, done loads of stuff and come back before they've so much as poked their head out from under their duvet.

My sleep pattern has improved insofar as I seem to wake around 7 naturally but I don't mind, especially when the mornings are light.

Yanbu, that is me too - though not due to rubbish sleep, I just sleep better 10-6 than later. Now I've a baby I still prefer to get up 6/7 and nap in the afternoon than sleep later. It also means I can walk my dogs begore others are up, get bread started and generally make the most of the weekend.

I'm usually up early at the weekends too.

I love sitting peacefully before everyone else wakes. And I early mornings a creative time, especially in Summer when it's light.

My ideal is to sit outside with tea and my lap top.

Years of early commutes mean I still wake with the lark every day. These days the cat wakes me at 5-ish. I am asleep by 9pm though. I love the peace and quiet, listening to the birds with two mugs of tea whilst browsing the internet and MN.

This all sounds lovely. I'm still at the "noooo! Go back to sleep pleeeease!" stage with DC, but my childminder assures me that by the time they are of an age for epic lie-ins, I'll be reflexively up by 7.

I'll take it!

I'm the opposite! Pre-DD I used to be up at 5am for work (stupid commute ) but always felt wide awake, and would tend to be up at that time in a weekend too. By the time DH was up I'd have tidied, cleaned, done laundry & been for a run.

Now I have a small person (10 weeks) it is killing me!

As I have got older I really do appreciate a little afternoon nap on the odd occasion I can get away with one , although they don't half kick up a stink if you try it at work

Oh yes a little afternoon nap doesn't go amiss sometimes!

I'm the opposite, I used to be a lark pre-DCs, but broken sleep in the early years resulted in me developing the habit of staying in bed till the last possible minute when I had to get up for them, and as they never were early risers that wasn't very early. The habit of staying in bed till about 8.30 at weekends has really stuck, although I am usually reading from about 7. I'm great in the evenings though, rarely in bed before midnight and get masses done then, but I would like to be up and about earlier.

I wish I was like that! But finishing work at 11pm some nights makes it hard to be chipper in the mornings when ds wakes! I love a lay in. A lay in to me is around 8am as it means I've had 8 hours. Not 11am like dp!

The only downside is that now that I've been up for 4 1/2 hours but DH is still in bed and I am getting fed up waiting to go out for the day! I bet he will come downstairs sometime in the next hour, thinking that he'll loll around for an hour, then have breakfast, then shower and get ready and when he's finally good to go, he'll expect me to be still eager to leave at noon when I'd have happily been arriving at 8am.

Oh I would love that. I dream of waking up bright, early and refreshed and sitting outside of a summer morning enjoying a coffee and cigarette, hanging out washing before gently waking my slumbering children.

However:

1. I live in Scotland, warm summer mornings where we hang out washing are a way off
2. My children are very early risers and often up before 5am
3. I have a chronic illness and need as much sleep as I can get, and never wake up refreshed

You people are all mad!

I hate, hate, hate getting up early, though I so wish I enjoyed it! My children are generally awake before me and so I have to drag myself up when I hear them. Then I feel cross and grumpy no matter what time it is! I read something the other week that said before you go to sleep just tell yourself that you'll wake up feeling happy and refreshed no matter the time, then set your alarm early. So I did but all I thought was 'Eurgh, it's too early!' Then kept pressing snooze for about the next hour and a half!

But today, I got up at about 8.30am and all was quiet. I came downstairs and had half an hour to myself before the kids appeared. It was lovely! So I wish I enjoyed getting up early so that I can enjoy the peace most days, because they don't generally sleep this late so I would normally have to get up a lot earlier to feel the benefit!

I live in Scotland. I had my horses out at 6.45 this morning in the nice crisp sun and the second load of washing is about to go on the line. It's a beautiful day. It's not warm but it's not bad. I think I've got to that age where I just can't lie in bed any more. There is nothing nicer than the peace, calm and quiet of an early morning.

What kind of madness is this thread?!? I've been rudely awakened by my 9 yo and I'm angry......

YANBU. I got up this morning at 5.50am, went to the beach (not UK) , ran 10k, then people watched for a while. Such a good start to the day.
I do love slobbing around in bed 'til 11am now and again though.

I was up at 6 today. Left DH sleeping. DD4 still sleeping (2yrs old) and teens sleeping.

Tidied up whole of downstairs, got laundry on and MN'd for a bit in peace. I felt like i had a head start on the day. I do this quite often on a Sat.

Everyone else got up at 7.30ish. We all had breakfast ect.

Thing is my head start is slipping away badly as i'm the only one still in my jim jams and i'm sat MNing again i can't be arsed to do anything

Early waking is never a good sign with me. Always means there is something bothering me!

I get up at 4.45 for work mon to fri and i love getting up at 7ish on saturdays. Washing out by 8.30. lots of coffee, tv, reading, MNetting. Best of all peace and quiet, and my kids are adults.