At the weekend who gets up with the kids?

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I'm such a lazy cow, DH is much better at getting up than me, it's nearly always him, with me surfacibg about an hour later.
This morning tho it's me as Dh up in the night with DS2 (wetting the bed), I feel very efficient and wifey, will take him a cup of tea now to complete my attempt at 1950's Domestic Goddess routine.
Am I the worst? Or just the luckiest?

I get up for work at 5.30 every other weekend.
On my weekends off,he lies in on Saturday and I get Sunday.(By lie-in I mean about 8.30!)

Me....always..

ludo same as - even when i've just had a night out last night

buggers aren't they!
I really don't bother to even attempt to get him out of bed anymore...it takes about an hour of pestering/shouting him to get him up, then he is just grumpy. I only get a lie in until about 8 oclock anyway before he comes to pester me..or sends the kids up...so no point!!!
(once I'm awake I'm awake and can't get back off if they are all up anyway...he would sleep through a world war!!!!)

Always ( well almost always) dh unless he's working.
He works a lot at the weekend now as we could do with the extra money, so my lie ins are becoming rarer. We used to alternate but he just started getting up more often. He can wake up quicker than me and he isn't the one up in the night feeding. Also he can nap on the sofa later if he wants to where I can't sleep at bedtime if I do that, as if the kids would let me do that anyway...!

oh munz...just read your thread! Poor you!
Go find some ice....or go put your feet on him!

lol. ooh give me time!

We sort of take it in turns, with DH generally having to do a few more. I get gallstone attacks fairly regularly so can often be up for a few hours, so DH knows that if I poke him in the ribs then he needs to get up.

Have found though that a packet of croissants in the bread bin and DS's milk ready poured in the fridge means that DD can pretty much sort them both out.

I would be having serious words if my DH didn't ever get up though, that is completely unfair.

DH never lets me sleep in the git!

DS up at 5am every morning this week teeth I think.

I just bash the pots and pans around the kitchen and allow all the kids to scream round the house til he gets up !

Smiley can we do Wifeswap?

dh does it, he's fabulous in the mornings and I am a groggy surly monster until at least 9.30

I don't get up at 9.30 though! I get up at about 8 usually, dh gets up at 7.30-ish.

And why is it when they actually do get up in the morning with the children when you surface, kids are still in pjs ahving done nothing more than eatn breakfast (usually infront of the tv).

Yes COV, why is it that there is a bombsite in the kitchen, unfed, undressed dc? And as soon as you get up, the baton is handed over?

Exactly. I have been up since 6am. Have been ill the past 7 days, yet have managed to feed and dress children, tidy their rooms and make their beds, clean kitchen, unload dishwasher, do a load of washing and hang it up, clean downstairs toilet and of course the obligatory bit of MN.

So just as I suspected, I'm a lucky lazy cow.

I mustn't let my Dh see this thread.

we take it in turns, we went out friday night and the children stayed out so we both got a lie in then dd2 was up a bit in the night and we both dealt with her and dp got up with the kids at 7.10am and i got up at 9.30 im just baoutt o go and wake him, none of us are dressed but dp did bath dd2 this morning and he's going to go to the shop for fry up ingredients and ill feed dd2 and put her down for her nap then we'll all get bathed and dressed, ill cook a big fry up then he's taking dd1 to the garden centre with his mum while i clean the house and do the washing and look after poorly dd2 (cold and teething) and my m8 is coming round at some point then food shopping will be delivered and ill do a sunday dinner - maybe!

Yes we have an arrangment to take it turns, but with all my wailing and moaning and Dh being awake anyway, he ends up doing it.
I have to say tho getting up with them for Dh is JUST that, doesn't get them dressed or tidy up or anything that's for me to do when I finally surface.
Still MUSTN'T complain.

my dh bless him gets up both sat and sun am - feeds the older dds and gets them dressed. today I wandered downstairs at about 10
ahhhhh!

but dd3 has awful nights and it's me that doens't get a good nights sleep and its also h is way of spending bit more time with the girsl as he's out the door at 730 and back home when they are in bed

This was always our biggest whinge when the boys were younger, lol, when DH was around (he's a shiftworker) he did do a fair few, mainly cos I was more stubborn than him, lol.

They get up themselves now, thank goodness.

I do have a friend who has Ds's similar age to mine, 6 and 3, who lets them get up on their own and go downstairs and watch TV until she and DH surface.
I obviously think this is terrible so make DH get up

Lol, mine are older.....

Oh yes I presumed they were Unknown, not casting aspertions (sp?),not in a position to!

Lol, didn't think you were, will admit it we were a bit lax and let them down on their own fairly early (oldest DS has always been very mature, lol).

How young? My friend says her oldest Ds (6) can look after youger (3) and shout them if needed.
I have to admit I am toying with the idea but it doesn't seem entirely responsible.
then again while DH gets up it's not a problem for me, if it was me I'm sure I'd think 6 was PLENTY old enough.