To be a bit peeved off at OH for staying up all night to watch F1, and thus will be sleeping/waste of space all day....

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How long are you goign to let him sleep???

Does he work during the week ?

DP does this but with cricket]

He will then spend the nesy day bleating about how tired he is

BreeVanDerCampLGJ on - is it relevant? I can still be annoyed at him.. I work 24/7 with the kids!!

We all need down time and if that is his then so be it, he should however pre-warn you and then you should plan accordingly as a family.

Now if he is doing it every weekend and you are losing family time then that is a different matter.

I get that its his down time, but i can still be not happy about it!

Sorry to be blunt, but you are making yourself sound selfish and spoilt.

And if you are parenting 24/7 and it is making you resentful, then maybe you need to sit down with your DH and ask him to pull his weight.

Let him sleep until lunchtime, then get him up and ask him to take the children out for the afternoon.

It wouldn't bother me if it was once in a while, tbh.

But if it were every weekend, I would be annoyed.

OMG - now you can't whinge on mumsnet without being spoilt and selfish....

If it was every weekend or you've got things planned then I'd be too. Hope you get some time to yourself too then it won't feel so unfair

mine sits up half the night every night
and thinks its his god given right to still be in bed now
i dont care
means he isnt under my feet

Sorry but if they feel the need to stay up half the night & have not planned it as a one off then they should get up & deal with the tiredness the next day.

Personally we try to have dp's lie in on sat & mine sun, last weekend though i did get up both days which i was about as dd gets up between 6-6.30am.

Ah the joys of not having an OH!

But it did annoy me when ex used to do this sort of thing. Yes, we all need downtime, but it shouldn't be at the expense of your family. Fine, stay up all night to watch whatever shite you like, but don't then expect more 'downtime' (ie the day in bed) afterwards.

Hedge

Dabs has just started another thread, putting flesh on the bones so to speak, she is also an Xbox widow.

we too have the one on one day other on the other approach to lie ins. however, not sure how this will work when I start working one weekend day 3 weeks out of 4!! More rows I'm sure!

Staying up all night, fine.
Expecting to stay in bed all day because of it. Not happening in my house I'm afraid.

now, this is tricky - coz I'd have been up with him but am up every night with DD anyway.

Dh and I did used to get up to watch, then BOTH have a lie in - in those glorious days pre-children.

I think you ABU to be cross that he was up watching the F1 - but I'd make sure the DC's make as much noise as possible all day so he can't "rest"

I can't remember the last time I got an extra "rest" having been up half the night through the kids being up - so why should he get to have a sleeping in day coz he CHOSE to b up?

DH would have got away with this...he came home from work in the middle of the night.

Sadly for him, he forgot

Mine did this and I still made him get up with dd on Sun, my day for a lie-in.