April 10, 2025

"When Mom and Dad Try to Sleep In – The Hanson Way"

"When Mom and Dad Try to Sleep In – The Hanson Way"

On this episode of We Are the Hansoos, chaos meets comedy as Mom and Dad try to sneak in some extra Zzz’s—but the kids have very different plans! It’s a wild morning in the Hansoo household, filled with laughter, love, and a little bit of mayhem. If you've ever tried to sleep in as a parent... you already know.

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Hey, everyone, move the back to we are the ansings.

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It's meet today, your mom, your own, the woman who

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one dreams of a showers of uninterrupted fling, today's topics

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on a call, we're not data typically back with in

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our minds something of a family, a mess like this,

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un or walking up hold itself. So let me except

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the seat. It's a Saturday morning. The calendar is fla.

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There is no practices, no appointments, no early shifts. The

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kids are healthy, the fridge is full, and Dad and

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I look at each other Friday night with this gleam

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in our eyes like tomorrow we can sleep in. We

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even say out loud, that's our first mistake. It's dead wrong.

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Now here's what actually happens. Usually around seven ams or so,

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which mind you, is already later than usual, when one

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of the little ones comes in, and that's definitely how

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it happens. They come in and suddenly we're not able

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to sleep. They wake us up. You know. Dad turns

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one way, I turned the other way, and we try

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to just dream on, try to sleep. After we pull

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the child into the bed, you know, because here the

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little one is standing out the side of the bed.

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Usually it's Anna. She usually will come in and stand

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on the side of the bed until I pull her

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up into the bed and tell her we're going to

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sleep a little longer. Needless to say, it doesn't happen

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because she kicks me in the back, she hits Jeremy

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in the head, and flopping around, moving around. She's always

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constantly moving. But we literally end up getting up because

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at that point, with getting kicked in the back or

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hitting the head, or you know, just because she moves

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around so much, our sleep time is dead. So one

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of the boys will burst in and announce that someone

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touched his stuff or you know, it could be anything,

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but we never ever get to sleep in. And of

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course the other one gets set off because they're bickering

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back and forth and they're just mom, dad, you know,

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back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. There's

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a now growing chorus in the hallway. The teenagers are fighting,

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and it's Saturday, while pop tarts are cooking in the

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toaster and they're fighting over who's having what kind of cereal.

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The very passionate speech being given in the kitchen about

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how toaster waffles are fake pancakes happens every day. Meanwhile,

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Dad's like a soldier in battling, eyes closed, pretending he's

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still asleep. I admire his commitment, I really do. But

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now it's around eight o'clock in the morning, and the

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dogs start howling, wanting to go outside. Because apparently these

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dogs are so dedicated for us to get up and

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take them out instead of the children, we don't get

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to sleep in. And now the kids are picking and

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fighting on who's taking the dogs out because nobody wants

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to take them out except for mom and dad because

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they need to go potty. So, needless to say, we

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try to hold out as long as we can. Getting

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out of bed on a Saturday, we do. I pull

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the covers over my head like it's a magical shield.

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I even whisper to myself. They'll figure it out. Just

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let me sleep a little bit longer. They'll settle down,

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just five more minutes, and then silence. It's suspicions, it's eerie.

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It's never good when there's quiet in the house. So

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now I'm wide awake, not because of noise, but because

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the lack of noise. Any parent knows that silence in

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a house full of kids is either a miracle or

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a crime. Scene, there is no in between and the

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dogs whining. You know, most of the time, if it's quiet,

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the kids are either on their tablet getting into something

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they shouldn't be, the little ones anyway, and you just

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got to get up and go see what's happening. Because

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the older kids are usually laying down in bed with

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their earphones on because they were fighting early and they're

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just done with it, so they just gave up and

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went and laid down put their headphones on, and the

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little ones are just getting into stuff they shouldn't be.

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One day the house will be quiet, too quiet, no footsteps,

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no breakfast debates, no tiny feet in our bed, and

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I'll be the one dragging myself into one of their

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rooms at six am just to check on them, just

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to feel close. So, yeah, we didn't sleep in, but

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we lived in that moment together and we'll try again

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the next Saturday. Hopefully it works out, but usually it doesn't.

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It's very rare. I have had this thing where it

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used to be Maddie. She would come in and she

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would want breakfast, and I would tell her at six am,

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lay down for a little bit, and around seven point

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thirty I'll get up and I'll make you breakfast. This

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only happens on the weekends. During the week they don't

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want to get up for school, So I don't know

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how that could be because the weekends that's when they

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stay up late. But I guess they do have friends

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that spend the night a lot of weekends, and their

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friends are early risers, so that means they're early risers too,

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because their friends wake them up. I'm not exactly sure.

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What I do know is they will get up. Maddie

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used to do it. She was good about laying back

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down for a little bit, and now torn and Anna

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do it. They will get up bright and early. Anna

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is pretty good about getting up in bed by me

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and going back to sleep. Torron, on the other hand,

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it doesn't work that way that little girl. When she

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is awake in the mornings, she will come in bright

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and early, and I'll tell her go turn on a

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cartoon and lay down for an hour, and then I'll

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get up and I'll make the breakfast because by that

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time Anna will be awake and Maddie will be awake

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and they can all sit down and eat breakfast together.

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And Torren will go and climb in her bed, and

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I hear her yell mom, and I'll say, what Torren,

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And she said, will you come here? And I say, Torren,

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lay down and go to sleep for a little bit.

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But I need you right now. I have to get

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up and go in there, because if I don't, it

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doesn't end. It happens at bedtime as well, so it's

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just not a morning thing. It's definitely morning and nighttime.

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We do not get to sleep in on the weekends

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at all, and if we do, it's usually because all

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the older kids are gone and the little ones had

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a hard day at play the night before and they

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just slept on in. Now, during school days, they don't

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start school. They start a little later, so needless to say,

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I can walk in there and say, you guys gotta

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be going to school, and they will lay there until

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the last minute, and I'll be like, you guys, need

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to hurry up, get up, get up, we're going to

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be late. That's when they jump out of the bed

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and get ready. I remember one day we went to

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bed and it was probably midnight when I fell asleep,

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and I'm laying there, sound asleep, and I feel these

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little fingers opening my eyelids, and I startled me. So

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I jumped and looked and here it was my little Anna, Mom.

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Are you awake. I'm like, well, Anna, I am now,

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And I said, why are you doing that? And she said, well,

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I was watching you sleep because I love you and

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I wanted you to wake up because I was scared.

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So I got up that time. And then one morning,

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it was a Saturday morning, touring came in and she said,

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come on, it's time to get up. I'm hungry. I

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need some breakfast. And I roll over to see the

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time on my phone and it's four forty in the morning.

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I was like, girl, I'm not getting out of bed

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to get you breakfast. It's a Saturday and it's four

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forty in the morning. Go lay back down, get some rest,

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and I will get up later. We ain't. We're not

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doing this. If you want a snack, go grab a

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snack and lay down. But we're not doing all this

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at four forty in the morning. Not happening. So needless

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to say, us as parents, we don't get to sleep in.

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When you have a house full of kids, it's loud,

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there's a lot of chaos, there's a lot of fighting,

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and the kids feel I think that if they're awake,

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the parents should be awake too. Someday I hope to

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get to be able to sleep in for longer than

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eight am. I even try to get them what they

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need some days and go lay back down. But as

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soon as I lay back down in the bed after

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I get them their food or whatever, they're in here

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five minutes later, Mom, are you gonna get up? They

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always come to me. Funny how that works. They don't

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go to their dad, they always come to me. But

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that's besides the point. So we will try again and

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again on every Saturday until maybe one day we'll be

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able to sleep in. Because we work a lot. We

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have a lot going on with all our kids doing

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different things and having to be different places and doctor's

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appointments and all that jazz. That we'll just keep trying

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and eventually maybe we'll get to Thanks for hanging out

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with me today. We are the Hansens. If you've ever

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tried to sleep in and failed, you're not alone. Send

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me your stories because I want to hear them, and

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maybe one day we'll do a whole episode featuring just

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your sleeping fails. Until next time, be kind to each other,

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and if you get the chance to nap Take it.

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