DH and I take it in turns of a weekend with regards to who gets up with the DC’s (we have an almost 2 and a half year old, and a one year old) meaning that each of us will get one ‘lay in’ per week. Monday-Friday DH is up and out the door by 6:30am, returns home around 5:30pm.. on a ‘good’ day, the DC’s will wake up at 7am latest, but lately it’s been anywhere from 4:30am so understandably, both DH and I are shattered by the weekend and very much look forward to some extra sleep.
But here’s my niggle, when it’s my turn to sleep in, I’m normally up no later than 9:30am.. 10am at an absolute push if I’m feeling especially wiped out. If I sleep in much longer than that, I feel like I’ve lost half my day, plus, to me, 9:30 is give or take anywhere between 3 & 4 hrs later than I’d usually wake up so it’s a welcome break! Not to mention DC2 goes down for a nap around 11am, and usually doesn’t get back up until around 1/2, so if I stayed in bed much later than the time that I do, I’d only see him for about 4-5hrs before he was due to go back to bed for the night!
My DH however, can easily, and will easily stay in bed until a tornado hits the house. He seems to be able to sleep through any and all noise that the DC’s make in the morning (I do try my best to keep them as quiet as I can for as long as I can, though) and more often than not, I’m still sat there at 11-11:30am waiting for him to get up. I always end up having to go in and prod him and tell him to wake up, then he surfaces about 15 minutes after that (if he doesn’t just fall straight back to sleep, that is). But honestly, if I didn’t go in and stir him, we’d probably not see him til well past midday and I can’t work out if I’m BU to think that 10am is a plenty long enough lay in when you have small DC’s.
I’m half ‘should I let him sleep for as long as he wants?’ and half ‘fuck no, I don’t stay in bed until lunch time!’