DF is visiting for the weekend, our kids (4 and 8) are delighted, they adore him. I love him dearly but when he's here i really struggle with the kids sleep, especially in the early hours of the morning. We only have one loo in our house and DF pees a lot in the night. Every time he goes he flushes it and it wakes up autistic DC. So I have to go into DC's room at 1, 3, 5am etc and remind them it's still night and to go back to sleep. It takes me a long time to settle DC at night, so I'm usually not asleep until around 11.30.
This morning DF went to the loo a few times and then at 5.30 and both kids woke up. He then went into the kitchen, let the cat out, the cat then came up jumped all over my face and started making himself a cup of tea. Both kids fully awake now. Then the teasing/tickling of the DCs started, which they both love, but caused them both to shriek for nearly an hour.
When DF isn't here we have a routine that works, the kids wake up around 7, but if they wake earlier they pop into my bedroom, grab their tablets and play until 7/7.30 when I get up with them and do breakfast etc.
I love my DF but I need my rest. I'm emerging from a really bad flare of my autoimmune condition. My post herpetic neuralgia is bothering me, because I've been so low. And I'm struggling a bit with interstitial cystitis. I pee a lot too, but I tiptoe to the loo, shut the door quietly behind me and wait until morning to flush.
AIBU to try and explain this? My health and DF have always been tricky, he seems to think it's a reflection on him that I have all these issues so refuses to accept a lot of them.