Hey Sparkle, I know exactly what you mean. My DH usually sets his alarm for about 3/4 of an hour before he is actually going to get out of the pit and then ends up leaving the house late, having asked me to iron a shirt and missed the chance for any breakfast because he has been fannying around squeezing spots and singing in the shower! The number of times I have asked him to either change the time the alarm is set to or get the f*ck out of bed when the it goes off, I couldn't count.
This morning he got up when his alarm went off because he was still in a mood about the lack of sex! Now I know how that one works... But the one that makes me REALLLYYYYYYY mad is when he makes himself late for work because he's pestering me for a shag - and then gets in a stroppy flap because he's late! For some reason saying "Get out of the bed and take your proddy little friend with you" never goes down well...
Barb - Xmas with just the 3 of you sounds lovely! As we have 4 sets of parents (that's right - 2 MILS each) we have always just had Xmas with the 2 of us, occasionally joined by my sister or other friends who are also escaping their own families. Do whatever the hell you want but my list would include:
Small tree (forget real this year, you don't want the extra hoovering) with lights for the baby to goggle at - it'll be SO cute!
Unless you're veggie (in which cas I have a fantastic mushroom pate en croute recipe I can post to you which looks well nifty but is in fact a big fat cheat as it uses ready-made puff pastry, mushrooms, bread and not much else) get a chicken for the pair of you and treat Xmas dinner as a Sunday roast dinner. don't try and do all the trimmings that your mum would do as there are only 2 eating and you'll cook for 6 hours, eat for 20 minutes and then feel sick if you do! Have curry instead if you really can't be arsed with the whole Xmas spread thing.
Get a tiny readymade Xmas pud. You'll never eat the whole thing anyway.
Sweatpants. No-one else is there, so who cares?
If people have posted you presents, make a list so you can say thanks later by phone.
Phone your rellies on Xmas morning before they start on the booze (my family get argumentative from about 3 onwards, so I speak from bitter experience). If this means you haven't opend presents from them yet, so what? Call again and thank them on Boxing Day if you need to.
Eat Xmas dinner when you want - we've always ended up staying in pyjamas til 12ish and then starting on the food prep after opening presents, whuich means you eat at teatime but if you've only yourself to please again, who cares?
Have sex on Xmas day, if the baby sleeps for long enough. You can't do that when you're staying at your mum's or rushing to get out of the house to visit people...
Watch the crap Xmas TV you want to watch. If you don't want to watch the Great Escape, you don't have to!
If you're tired and full, screw the washing up til Boxing Day. Let it fester. Feels good, doesn't it? Again, no-one else can see it!
Honestly, you will never look back...