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Straw poll: do you and DP get up together with kids on weekend mornings?

96 replies

PodPast · 07/10/2007 08:23

We never have, I see it as a sign of a loving relationship, DH sees it as a foolish waste of good sleeping time for one of us (usually him... but that's another story). I'd like to present him with some hard stats please...

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purpleduck · 07/10/2007 16:19

We take turns

but
they are 5 and nearly eight, so they do alot themselves -switch on tv, get themselves a snack (croissants, milk bread roll etc) until we get up.
Its good!!

lilolilREALLYISFEMALE · 07/10/2007 16:38

Took it in turns til they were old enough to be left alone downstairs.

ELMTREE · 07/10/2007 16:46

your having a laugh. I can count on one hand how many times DH has got up since daughter was born 2 years ago.

DontCallMeBaby · 07/10/2007 17:09

DH gets up on a Saturday and I get up on a Sunday, other one only gets to lie in until 9 though. Occasionally we both get up if we have something to do, but normally just try to grab some extra sleep.

miobombino · 07/10/2007 18:45

My youngest is 3; it's me he wants first thing for a cuddle and a beaker of milk...any time from 5.30 onwards . However then he goes away and i often grab an extra 30 mins or so in bed. Dh ALWAYS brings me a large mug of Earl Grey in bed at w/ends and during hols. Plus he cooks breakfast for 4 dcs every Sat and Sun. Can't complain about that at all ! Especially as I usually then slope off to the gym or out on my bike for a while, during which time the dcs and dh slowly get dressed.

So not really a lie in for either of us - though getting up at 8am or 8.30 twice a week is a luxury compared to the school week. I'm a sahm and dh works oth for about 60 hours per week.

PandaG · 07/10/2007 18:55

used to take turns, but now DC are older they gett hemselves up, breakfasted and dressed. However with swimming lessons at 9 am Saturday (DH does the lesson, I go to the gym) and church for all of us on Sunday, neither day is a very late lie- in, but is bliss as we are usually up at 6 in the week [smile

hollyhobbie · 07/10/2007 18:56

We used to take turns to have a lie-in at the weekend while the other got up with DD.
Now DH gets up with DD both days as I'm up in the night with DS. Sometimes I get a lie-in because DS goes back to sleep but quite often now DS and I follow DD & DH downstairs.

As soon as DS sleeps through we'll be back to taking turns.

ib · 07/10/2007 19:05

No, dh gets up, takes ds away and I get a lie-in. If I haven't woken up by 11 he brings ds up for his nap, but I'm usually up by then.

This is on Sunday, sat we work so both get up.

rookiemum · 07/10/2007 19:20

No we take turns, so on Saturday DH got up and today I did. There is an unwritten rule that the lie inner doesn't get to sleep much beyond 9.00am and should be grateful to the person letting them lie ine.
For a few weeks DS was gloriously sleeping in to 9.00am on Saturday which was fab for both of us, but this weekend seems to be back to 7.30am wake ups, which I know is a picnic compared to a lot of other children so we do get enough sleep.

CountessDracula · 07/10/2007 19:55

We take it in turns

Every so often one of us gets up and sorts her out with some toast and a dvd and we go back to sleep ahhhh bliss!

TellusMater · 07/10/2007 20:00

This morning, the children got up at about 8, played together for a bit. DH got up at 8.30. They all went downstairs. DH brought me a cup of tea, cooked waffles and brought some up to me in bed with the newspaper.

Trix11 · 07/10/2007 20:20

Mostly I get a lie in both mornings, dh is an early bird I am not. I like going to bed early too If dh has been out the night before I will get up then.

prettybird · 07/10/2007 22:52

Actually, when ds was very young (ie before we taught him to push in the video tape for himself ) dh and I would take in turns to get him.

He'snow 7 and during the week he comes into bed with us at 6.45 for a cuddle and then dh and he get up while I get a luxurious extra time in a nice warm bed on my own . Dh then sends ds through to get me up at 7.30, having got the breakfast stuff ready.

He's a morning person and I'm not!

hana · 07/10/2007 23:15

take turns here as well
anything past 6am on the weekends is a treat, even 30 minutes!

Bewilderbeast · 07/10/2007 23:16

We either get up together or I get up on Saturday and DP gets up on Sunday

missgrisly · 07/10/2007 23:16

We also take it in turns

ScaryJaamy · 07/10/2007 23:20

Tried taking it in turns for a lie in but always forgot who's turn it was so mostly all get up together.

xXxamyxXx · 07/10/2007 23:23

we take turns

twinsetandpearls · 07/10/2007 23:29

DD is six, dp and dd also do the creeping about in the morning bit. They often go to the beach and then to a cafe for breakfast.

Sometimes we have a lie in together and dd plays in her room or watches TV.

Spiderhammer · 07/10/2007 23:31

DH gets up with kids whenever I can get away with it whether it be in the week or at weekends. I'm no early bird unless I have to be.

We're both freelance so the concepts of weekends being days off doesn't apply.

LadyVictoriaOfCake · 07/10/2007 23:32

i get up early on saturdays, dh gets up early on sundays as he has to take one of his pills early on sunday and stay awake afterwards, and cant eat till 1hour has past.

kindersurprise · 07/10/2007 23:52

Normally DH gets up with the kids, goes to the bakery for rolls and sets the table, makes breakfast, boils eggs etc.

He then shouts on me about 5 times before I stubble out of bed and come down stairs to have breakfast together with him and the DCs.

Very occasionally he will get a lie in, but he is more a morning bird than I so he does not mind.

xXxamyxXx · 08/10/2007 00:00

ks can i have your dh????

kindersurprise · 08/10/2007 00:10

xXxamyxXx
Nope!

Although, ask me when he has been getting on my nerves and I might just say yes

prettybird · 08/10/2007 10:02

kindersuprise - my dh does the same - (although he doesn't go to the bakery!).

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