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Original poster

Enjoy the last lie in or get up early in preparation for getting up early?

30 replies

NorthernGirlie · 04/01/2025 10:12

Back to work on Monday - me and DS have been having some lovely lie ins. DH is a morning person, we're definitely not!

DH thinks we should get up early tomorrow in preparation for getting up early on Monday. DS and I want to wallow in our pits for 1 more morning!

No control or force - just general chit chat about it. Who's right?

OP posts:
Xiaoxiong · 04/01/2025 10:15

I'm with your DH I'm afraid - to go from pit-wallowing to an early start is too hard, I'd have to ease into it.

Can you split the difference and get up halfway between lie-in time and usual wake up time?

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 04/01/2025 10:15

You don't need to practise getting up early Confused I'm a morning person and always wake up early, but I wish I could lie in! I'd definitely be making the most of it if I were you.

Iwontlethtesungodownonme · 04/01/2025 10:17

I would split the difference. Get up earlier than your usual lie ins but not as early as a work day.

TwentyTwentyFive · 04/01/2025 10:19

Enjoy one last lie in. Getting up early on Monday is going to be shit regardless and one earlier start isn't going to make it any easier so why make tomorrow shitter than it needs to be.

Supersoakers · 04/01/2025 10:20

Make it the best lie in ever! I plan to too.

pumpkinpillow · 04/01/2025 10:31

Getting up early on Monday is gonna stink regardless. You might as well enjoy one last lie in.
I will try and go to bed earlier on Sunday evening though.
I'm also not a morning person and not setting the alarm is one of the best things about annual leave.

ParisPossum · 04/01/2025 10:33

Personally I would never bypass an opportunity to do what I want to versus doing what I have to. There is far too much of the latter in life as it is.

Funkyslippers · 04/01/2025 10:33

I'm definitely planning to have the mother of all lie ins before I go back to work on Monday. Just bear in mind if you have too much sleep tonight you might struggle to sleep tomorrow night

Original poster
NorthernGirlie · 04/01/2025 11:11

Funkyslippers · 04/01/2025 10:33

I'm definitely planning to have the mother of all lie ins before I go back to work on Monday. Just bear in mind if you have too much sleep tonight you might struggle to sleep tomorrow night

This is my niggle, I'm struggling to get to sleep at the moment (menopause and work dread) so know I'll be lying awake tomorrow night anyway!

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Catza · 04/01/2025 11:12

There is no right or wrong way. You will still get up for work on Monday and feel shit regardless. Personally, I like keeping routine as much as possible. We are staying up far too late and waking up far too late and I am not enjoying it. I feel groggy and headachy and like I'm wasting perfectly good morning hours. But that's me. My ex partner (we still live together) has been quite happy to spend the last 5 days napping on a sofa even though he needs to be up at 5am on Monday.

AlertCat · 04/01/2025 11:25

My mother used to do this at the end of the summer holidays and I hated it! Can you compromise- wake up at nearly normal time but relax and enjoy being able to stay in bed for extra cuppa?

emmax1980 · 04/01/2025 11:34

I would take one last lie in and just to bed early on Sunday night.

DreamW3aver · 04/01/2025 11:43

I'm not a lie in person but if I was I wouldnt expect my husband to be telling me what time to get up unless I was unfairly avoiding some aspect of family life by not getting up

YABVU to use the word pit though, revolting way to describe your bed imo

gingercat02 · 04/01/2025 11:53

I'm definitely in the make the most of it camp. We have been in bed as long as we wanted all week. It's been amazing.
Monday is back to alarms and reality, soon enough!
I have suggested teen ds go to bed earlier buy who knows 🤷‍♀️

Theimpossiblegirl · 04/01/2025 11:55

I will get up but I'll enjoy a relaxed morning in my pjs drinking tea.

JimHalpertsWife · 04/01/2025 11:57

We always just take the hit on the work day morning, knowing we will all be asleep by 8pm that day Grin

I'm not sacrificing the final lay in for nothing.

Sinkintotheswamp · 04/01/2025 11:57

Get up early and have a relaxed morning tomorrow. It'll make Monday easier.

rewilded · 04/01/2025 11:58

All our body clocks are shot. I have been going to bed at 2am+ and getting up at 10:30-11am. I have enjoyed the break and we have snow later so it would be rude to get up early tomorrow as advice is to stay off roads etc...

Tacocatgoatcheesepizza · 04/01/2025 12:01

I am having exactly the same dilemma. Ultimately I tend to fall on the side of it doesn’t matter what I do, the first early get up is always rubbish so may as well make the most of it!! Dh and ds2 are the type who just wake up at the same time everyday and get up straight away. Ds1 and I like staying in bed as long as possible.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 04/01/2025 12:02

Go for a middle way? So my normal morning get up is 7.30, but I’m a massive night owl so it will be 10 ish in the holidays unless we have something planned, sometimes 11 if the kids aren’t here.

I’ll usually go for a middle ground on the last day, eg 8.30/9 ish so I’m not going suddenly from one to the other.

QueenOfWeeds · 04/01/2025 12:04

Get up early-ish (split the difference), make tea and toast and go back to bed with it until you are ready to get up.

Crunchymum · 04/01/2025 12:05

I am going to let mine sleep.

I did have to wake the older two today for swimming so I'll give them a reprieve tomorrow.

Mine always tend to regulate within the week of going back (so they'll naturally go to bed earlier as they are tired)

amoreoamicizia · 04/01/2025 12:07

Which way is your voting, is it YABU to agree with the husband? I agree with the husband, you'll feel better if you get ready for getting up early.

toomuchfaff · 04/01/2025 12:22

DH wins.

I've already booked an Ikea pick up for tomorrow, chose the 10am slot to get me out the bed...

Natsku · 04/01/2025 12:28

My DD has gone completely nocturnal during the holidays so we've agreed that she will stay up Saturday night but instead of going to sleep around 5am as she's been doing, she'll stay up for all of Sunday and get to bed early Sunday night. She's not back to school until Tuesday so she'll have Monday to be back in a normal routine for practice for Tuesday.

I've not had this issue because I've worked almost every working day, only had the Friday after Christmas off, so my brain is still in 'wake at 5' mode.