Ha! I DID it this morning!!! Oh boy. I am far, far too excited about this.
My son is sleeping in till noon these days... but 9 years of waking up "on the jump"... even though I KNOW he'll still be asleep, I've trained myself to drag my comatose bum down the stairs, mainline some caffeine, and get the zombie (me) into some form of vertical awareness. This morning, I "WOKE UP!", then blinked twice, rolled back over, and went back to sleep.
When my son was little, I used to have a 'sleep in day' (before my husband lost his ever lovin mind we used to trade so we each got one day a week to sleep in). It's been five or six years of being "on" every morning. Granted, for the past couple years my son would wake up at 730 (shower, breakfast, etc.), and I'd wake up at 830 and that was Tony the Tiger G-r-r-r-reat! But it STILL meant that the moment my eyes opened I needed to haul myself into some semblance of awake and downstairs. 3 months of sleeping till noon, and today was the day! The first day I've gone back to sleep in YEARS. Man oh man oh man. I feel like a new woman.
How 'bout yourselves? Do you sleep in? Trade days? Are always up? A 'morning person'? (shudder, I can respect ya, I just don't "get" ya ;) When was the last time you rolled back over and slept until you woke up?
Congratulations! I'm jealous. Not only do I never get to roll over and go back to sleep, but I can hardly ever sleep anymore! I've resorted to OTC sleep aids, but even with those, some nights I don't sleep. Took one last night; didn't fall asleep until after 2:30. Have to get up at 6:30 so today is a red letter day! Hoping tonight will be better.
On school days I get up at 5:20, not because I WANT to, I HATE it, and I have 3 more years of it. But I need to inhale some coffee and stare blankly at the news while talking myself into being a nice person before the kids get up at 5:55. I am not a morning person, probably because I rarely sleep more than 1 or 2 consecutive hours....figure in HOT FLASHES now and it goes down to a half hour. And if the kids got up and everything started happening BEFORE I had my zombie period, my entire neighborhood would start every day in a really bad mood.
On the weekends and the SUMMER (AH, GOD BLESS SUMMER!!) I'll sleep until 7 or 8 or until the poor dog is scratching at the slider with a bursting bladder.
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I'm a single Mom, so I don't get to trade days. Since it's all on me, I think my body has kinda trained itself to wake up. A lot of days I wake up a few minutes before the alarm clock goes off. Making myself actually get out of bed is a whole 'nother ordeal though! My latest problem is getting a cup of coffee and taking it back to bed and watching some tv before hauling myself out of bed, thereby making us late, even though I was "awake" way early.
Good for you! I get to sleep in once a month or so, thanks to hubbie. But it usually means a breakfast mess to clean up.... but that's ok.
When my daughter was a toddler, she woke up early and I heard her on the monitor. I was so exhausted, I just turned the monitor off, thinking I would get up in a few minutes...well, I woke up like 3 hours later, it was like 10am! I flew out of bed and ran into my daughters room...she was sound asleep! PHEW...but I never did that again. I am NOT a morning person but got up when the kids did, they are early birds, even now. But I was a mom that took a nap when the kids did and I had kids that slept for 2+ hours every day...yahoo!!! Now my kids are older 15, 12 and 9. Even on the weekends they get up early, but hubby and I can sleep in (about 8am or so) since they are old enough to get some cereal and milk and watch tv til we get up. During the week I'm spoiled...hubby is a morning person, gets right up and gets the kds breakfast and lets me sleep in until 7am and then he brings me a cup of coffee in bed and wakes me up...so sweet!!!! Oh, and our ex's have our kids every other weekend so we can sleep all morning and all day if we want! =)
It would be so nice.
Sleeping in for me is 7:30 and it doesn't happen often. Even on the weekend it seems I have to get up early for something. I have to get up at 4:45 for work Monday-Friday. I am afraid those days are long gone for me.
My son hates going to bed at night, but he is pretty good about sleeping until 11 or 12 in the afternoon. Before then I'd always get up, get him taken acre of then we would "take a nap together". I also do a mommy "no no" and let him sleep in my bed (which as a note, is a Queen size so there is plenty of room for both of us, pushed in the corner so my little guy would not fall off.).
Wait....you can do that? LOL
We tried the whole trade in days thing, it didn't work out too well.
It went like this. Everyone up, mom asks dad to let her sleep, dad says ok. Dad gets the child breakfast, ahhh it's quiet....mom is trying to go back to sleep. Then 2 minutes later dad comes in and changes the diaper right next to sleeping mom. Mom wakes back up, but keeps her eyes closed in hopes it wont take long and she can fall back asleep. Child see's mom on the bed and starts playing with her, reading to her, shaking her and loudly yelling "MAMA GET UP." After Dad watches the child for a few minutes thinking its funny and now mom is awake...again but still stays quiet and keeps her eyes shut again hoping she can fall back asleep, he finally tells the child to stop and tries to call her out in the living room. At this point the child is usually jumping on the bed, and landing on mom laughing hysterically. After the dad takes 5 more minutes coaxing the child out of the room, the door is shut, and mom hears the child throw a fit because she realizes the door was shut and mom was still in the room. Then the child runs to the bedroom door and starst bangin on it...."Mama come out here, get uppppppppppp!!!!"
Really theres no point. I am one of those people that when I ask you to let me sleep I need to be left alone. Last week I asked him to let me sleep, he said ok and then him and our daughter proceeded to play on the bed next to me. That just doesn't work for me, if I have too much activity around me I am awake. The reason he doesn't think it's a big deal.....because my boyfriend can sleep through almost anything and can fall asleep within seconds of laying down.
The only time I get to sleep is when my inlaws have our child...but then my boyfriend usually wakes up all bright eyed and bushy tailed asking when am I going to get up so we can get some stuff done. WTH?!? Thats when I throw something in his direction and roll back over. =)
You ever have one of those mornings where the coffee seems to have been replaced with decaff sometime during the night? I'm having one of those mornings. Groaaaaaan. My brain has been replaced with porridge.
I could not go back to sleep this early morning when I woke from a bad dream. Toss and turn. Groan. Pee. Toss. Turn. I went back down around 8:00 and my kids woke up at 8:20. Hence the porridge brain. I know some folks can / have to operate on four or five hours of sleep a night. I turn into a crazy bat after a few nights of that. Crazy. Bat.
Anyway. I used to trade sleep in days with my husband. Seven days a week my husband is either leaving to work before we wake up, or sleeping after working at night, so now I don't get sleep ins. My kids are pretty frickin' great though. I'll put their breakie out on the table (the night before) and they'll grab their milk and let me hang in bed for a few minutes while the caffeine hits my system. So it could all be a LOT worse. They wake up pretty late too. Thank goodness for children who aren't morning people. No. I've never, ever, never been a morning person. Doesn't matter how much sleep I get or how old I am, I just don't do a graceful morning.
ALSO, my sweet mama takes the kids for sleep overs pretty regularly. Those nights I don't put myself to bed, will go to sleep late, late, late, and will wake up on my own (so long as a noise doesn't wake me up sooner). It's dreamier than a well made custard pie.
For Halloween I think I'll go as myself in the morning. Except I think I may scare the neighbors a little too much with that costume.
DH and I trade days. Saturdays he gets up, Sundays, I do.
Love my precious sleepy Saturday mornings!
I am definitely not a morning person. I never have been. However, I'm a single mother and have no choice but to be up, kid ready, me ready, him off to school at 7:10am and me off to work. It's been that way for years.
My youngest kid is 16 so he can fend for himself for the most part and on Saturdays, I like to sleep in if I can. If not, I like to get a nap in. I'm so tired by Friday, I really need at least one down day to recharge for the next week. I run my legs off.
Sleeping til noon on a weekday? I had to break a leg to pull that off, and only during the summer when my son didn't have school.
Glad you got to sleep in!
