to be pissed off with DH for getting me up at 5am - again?

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DH got home from work last night at 10pm - he's working really hard at the moment and also has a 1 1/2 hour (each way) commute. He said he had to be up v. early this morning & set his alarm for 5am.

Next morning, alarm goes off (v. loud), he presses snooze and goes back to sleep. I, of course, am now wide awake as always. (I wouldn't be so arsey about this but it happens at least twice a week and I'm knackered).

The alarm continues for the next hour with him saying 'I'm getting up in a second' when I nudge him because he's snoring so loud.

6.15am - DS1 gets up, starts jumping on my head and squeezing my neck & requesting stories. He only ever does this to me, allowing DH to carry on snoring.

7am - I get up, shower etc, having already been awake for 2 hrs. Sort all DCs out, get to school, childminder etc, & go to work.

8am - DH finally gets out of his pit, dresses, goes to work.

I should probably be more sympathetic as he's working so hard but I also work, plus do all childcare, run the house etc. I had to bite my tongue this morning so I didn't snap his head off and restrain myself from throwing the effing alarm out of the sodding window.

Views please?

Practicalities. Most blackberries are password protected. Assuming his isn't, or you know his password, then you turn the alarm on as follows (assuming his blackberry has a "pearl"):

• on the home screen is a picture of an alarm clock. scroll to that. click on it . it will open up with an alarm page, with the cursor on the on/off setting. click the pearl and three options should show up: weekdays, on, off. scroll to off. click again. the off setting should be selected. press the "back" arrow key just to the right of the pearl (has a picture of an arrow turning back on itself. blackberry should say "saving...". job done.

Yes, you don't need the manual to throw it out of the window!

I am guilty of this but not for 3 hours, and not when my DH is trying to sleep. I do like intermittent snoozing though.

Don't worry about working out how to switch it off or turn off the alarm - just take the battery out.

A friend of mine had the same problem with her Dh who kept hitting the snooze button on his radio alarm clock. After months of asking him to set the alarm to a later time, she finally snapped....and cut the plug off with a pair of scissors.

Ironer - I've already done this - a few years ago. He was quite shocked that I actually did it as I'd been threatening for a while. Worked beautifully until he started using the alarm on his mobile...

Meid, yes he has good intentions but has always been utterly shit at getting up in the morning.

Becauseimworthit - like the first bit, but you don't know what you're talking about when you say he can't be working hard if he's in bed till 8. If you'd worked from 9am Tuesday through to 2am Wednesday including a four hour drive you might be a teensy bit sleepy...

Is this a regular occurance where he leaves the alarm ringing?

YANBU, I would be putting the alarm somewhere the sun doesn't shine!!!

OMG YANBU!!!!!! My Dh does this for 20 mins and I want to peel his flesh off with tweezers and feed it to the chickens each time!

When your LO came in, you should have gone in the shower (since you were wide awake anyway) and told him clearly to "play with daddy" - apart from the alarm issues, you really need to work on the LO-only-waking-mummy thing

Love that Unsure! Have tried to get DS1 to wake daddy but he's having none of it and just ignores him . I'll have to start hiding from my kids I guess... or move into the loft. Bloody bugger.

Threaten to flush his farkin' Blackberry down the loo if he does that again...