Silly boy…
Conversation with Shun the other night- it was in Japanese but this is the jist of it in English.
me: Maybe once we have kids I could work part-time on a Saturday, teaching, and you could watch them. Especially if I am not working part-time during the week. I think we will need the money.
Shun: Sunday`s would be better don`t you think?
me: No, I figure that should be a family day. What is wrong with Saturday`s? Sunday`s are hard to get teaching gigs with children.
Shun: Well we both like to sleep in on the first day of the weekend….
me: *gobsmacked*………….Shun, you do realize there will be no more sleeping in, ANY TIME, once we have kids right?
Shun: huh? I guess so, but I figured we could sometimes.
me: Nope, pretty sure it will be never.
He was quiet after that…probably rethinking the idea about starting a family I bet. Sometimes I worry about what goes on in his head?!? hehe.
Well nablopomo ends today…I have successfully posted everyday for another month. Will probably need a bit of a break now!
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LOL! I have to admit, my thought process, even with a kid, is similar to Shun’s, I always try to leave Saturday mornings open for sleeping! Actually my husband and I do manage to sleep in together sometimes, because our son has a pretty late bedtime and sleeps for 12 hours straight. Also sometimes my husband will get up with him and let me sleep in, or vice versa. So it doesn’t have to be never, ever ever, but properly sleeping in is pretty rare. And I imagine once kid becomes kids, the sleep in time will probably go the way of the dinosaur.
In my experience, Saturdays (especially the mornings) are pretty popular days for lessons. People like to have the afternoon free to have fun after the lesson and they like to relax on Sundays. So, I think you’re definitely correct in your line of thought!
Oh God it’s so true- I surprise myself with being able to get up when Jonah does, his cuteness is usually enough motivation and well, the crying too. That being said if someone does get a “lie in” as they say (forget where they say that- possibly in your area of the world) its usually Yohei- so Shun will probably be ok.
yeh, sleep is a 5 letter word that dissapeared from our house for at least a year! let alone lie-in/lazy weekend mornings (but only for me, J still gets to sleep in and nap, just like Christelle says, haha!)
but K surprised us this weekend by sleeping in* on BOTH Saturday AND Sunday mornings.
*editor’s note: here the term “sleeping in” refers to waking up at 8:45am or later on any given morning. I was soooooooo happy, lol! It is the latest I have slept in until since she was born, I think.
btw, guys, they just don’t get it a lot of the time. I think we have to cut them A LOT of slack, haha.
Ha ha,
Just this morning I was lying in bed with my eyes scrunched shut trying my best to look asleep in the hope it would led to actual sleep and Dh said ‘wow, it’s already 8:30 isn’t this just like when we first lived together?’
Uhhh, sure, except that we routinely lay in until after 10 and uhhhh, did you notice there are two children sitting on your back playing row row row your boat?????
Seriously.
And I wholeheartedly recommend teaching a couple of hours on the weekend. I teach 2 hours every Saturday afternoon and it has done miracles for DH in his confidence as a parent, his relationship with the girls and (most importantly!!) his appreciation of what I do all week! Nappy needs changing/ baby needs feeding/ baby’s unsettled, kid’s won’t nap/ it’s snack/ walk/ bathtime? Well if mummy’s not there daddy will just have to work out how to do it!!
I still have the image of the first saturday I worked after A was born burnt into my brain though. I opened the door and DH (carrying a crying 5 week old) and M (2 and whining) came running (literally!) to greet me. It has got easier.
LOL..men can be so daft sometimes!
Men! When I was pregnant with my first we were discussing cloth or disposable diapers. He was under the impression that we would only need two diapers a day - one for day and one for night.
My oldest is 5 1/2. Guess how long it has been since anyone in this house slept late on a Saturday? And another nasty surprise is that on weekends they tend to wake up even earlier than they do on weekdays for some insane reason.
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Oh man I am going to miss my sleep.
Thankfully Ryohei is the bright eyed, bushy tailed one in the relationship.
He gives me a hard time for sleeping in … me I’m sleeping as much as I can while I can.
Jess- I like sleeping as much as the next person, but Shun is shocking! I will try and leave Sunday`s for a lie-in though, probably forever, even when we have kids that wake up at 11pm, again at 1am, then at 3am and again at 5am….that said I will probably cope a lot better with it that Shun is going too! Although I will probaby be whacking him awake as he sleeps through anything…..including fire alarms and earthquakes! I will have to train him to wake up first and let me sleep in…hehe!!! I want your baby….
Orchid64- That is what I am thinking. That and afternoons….I think, if I am going to work part-time that I will have to approach the MIL to baby-sit…We will probably be living fairly close to them anyway. And she is a hoikuen helper so she is used to little kids (plus obviously, 30 years ago she had two of her own!)
Christelle- I have a feeling it will be Shun that gets the “lie in” more often than not… He is terrible in the mornings!
I think you should convince Yohei to give you a bit of a lie-in….at least once Jonah is a bit older and finished breast feeding….
Tj-in-Japan- 8:45 is a pretty good sleep in too me! Especially because lately I have been getting up before 6am for work!!! We used to wake up just before 8am though in Japan for work which also wasn`t too bad!!!
I am not so good without a lot of sleep, but I am hoping to god that I will be able to nap a bit during the day once bub comes along. I better get pretty fast at cleaning, cooking and checking blogs though so I can fit in the sleep!!!
Heather- Shun loves kids, but I think the idea of been alone with one scares him a little which is why I think me getting out for a couple of hours on the weekend so he could be with the bub (or kiddies) would be a good thing!
Your morning story is funny- you cracked me up with row row row your boat!
Good to hear teaching on the weekends has worked for you- I think I will more than likely need to return to part-time work soon after we have kids anyway. Living so close to Tokyo just makes everything SOOOOO expensive…especially rent. So as much as I am not sure if I will like it, our kids will probably need to go to Hoikuen from a young age…(as MIL still works mornings I couldn`t ask her…especially not for everyday)
Katie- That is what I told him too!!!!!!
Sherry- hehehehe! I told Shun this story and he said he at least new babies need more than 2 diapers a day….his comment was “oshiko ippai suru kara deshou?” hehehe
That said, shun didn`t realize there were cloth diapers! I have not thought about this yet—-what did you end up going with? Cloth or disposable? I think I would like to try cloth, at least at night. We might need a bigger washing machine though!
Roxane- Thanks for stopping by!!! Are you living in Japan at the moment also? (Are you there full-time I couldn`t tell but I only had five minutes to have a quick read- your kids are so cute!)
Sara- When I stayed with you and Ryohei I couldn`t believe how early you both got up even on weekends! Plus how early you went to sleep- this is something I have started to semi train myself in since coming back to Australia- going to bed by 11 instead of 1am or 2am like in Japan! Sometims it works sometimes it doesn`t…..
I am sure Ryohei will let you have some lie-ins once bub arrives!
Hiya! Your blog is a lot of fun to follow! I’ve already forgotten how I found it, though it’s probably safe to assume it was through a Japan-related blog of some kind. My name is Ciara. Nice to meet you!
I don’t have kids, but my sister and her husband have two boys and for the last few years, he’ll wake up with them on Saturday and let my sister sleep in. It’s worked out really well for them, even if occasionally my younger nephew will sneak in to ask his mom if she wants to watch Transformers with them. Hehe.
We take turns sleeping in during the holidays (we’re already negotiating for the New Year’s holidays) since we have to get up to go to church on Sundays anyways. I’m really looking forward to the day when my oldest can get breakfast for the other three (next year?!).
Lulu, sleeping in, will definitely be a thing of the past. And when they are real young it’s almost like you walk around feeling sleep deprived. : (
Now that, both my boys are a bit older though, I find myself getting a bit more sleep though. Branden loves to sleep in. He could sleep in until 10 or 11 am if we let him. And Noah will sleep in, until 8-8:30am on weekends. So, my weekends are not so bad anymore. Not like when they were wee little babies. On weekends, now, that my boys are 3 and 7. I find myself getting to sleep into 8:00 or 8:30 am, so not so bad. Granted not as much sleep as I used to get before I had kids, but good enough for me. : )