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Re: The parents are here...
Originally Posted by iPom
(Post 5286838)
Tips for survival please...
Already, they are eating me out of house and home, (they're a few stone over weight and need to stop shovelling it in)... But my mother is driving me nuts in my own bloody house... makes herself a drink and doesn't ask us if we want one, leaves the tea bags in the sink, starts re-arranging the stuff in the cupboard.... I'm preparing meals, and she's asking when I'm 'doing' breakfast, which in our house is a help yourself affair.... Get yourself a bowl and sit on down with something in it. It's only two days and I'm exhausted already. There are 5 people in my house normally and now there are 7.... ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I'll be all right. Only 2 and a half months more to go.... :eek: we'll tell them what's what :) |
Re: The parents are here...
Originally Posted by Sally
(Post 5287331)
Indeed - good tip for you IPom - "You've had your 2 nights, now sling yer hooks." :lol:
That quote... 'I don't like to help, you look so busy...' That's incredible. I'd be like 'Tell me what to do, give me a job'... Some people have no idea. :( |
Re: The parents are here...
Originally Posted by gedge
(Post 5287364)
you could always leave your laptop on, signed in to BE perhaps?
we'll tell them what's what :) |
Re: The parents are here...
Originally Posted by iPom
(Post 5287383)
Hmmmmmm, there's a thought...
do you think they would join in? |
Re: The parents are here...
Originally Posted by DebiE
(Post 5287330)
I loved it when my parents came to visit in March. When they left my kids and I were devastated....just enjoy them while they're here.
Maybe that's the reason why some people settle in Oz and some people don't!!! It's their lack of calorie burning and scoffing... And that I need to prepare 'proper' meals three times a day. I'm was still stuffed from dinner last night when I woke up this morning and I was asked by my mother when breakfast would be ready... I restrained my desire to point at the cupboard and fridge and say 'dig in'... They want 'proper' meals... so breakfast would be porridge, followed by some sort of bacon egg thing, and real coffee... before they settle down into a chair for the day. I avoided the question by going out for milk and bread, and neatly sidestepped it. :D |
Re: The parents are here...
Originally Posted by gedge
(Post 5287390)
we could start a thread about thoughtless relatives coming to stay
do you think they would join in? |
Re: The parents are here...
Originally Posted by iPom
(Post 5287394)
Yes, though I love my parents, my mother drives me insane with her attitude... plus she's an overtly born again Christian who yacks on about god and how he's really 'moving in her life'... which means nothing to me, I'm afraid, but she still thinks we all need to hear it.
It's their lack of calorie burning and scoffing... And that I need to prepare 'proper' meals three times a day. I'm was still stuffed from dinner last night when I woke up this morning and I was asked by my mother when breakfast would be ready... I restrained my desire to point at the cupboard and fridge and say 'dig in'... They want 'proper' meals... so breakfast would be porridge, followed by some sort of bacon egg thing, and real coffee... before they settle down into a chair for the day. I avoided the question by going out for milk and bread, and neatly sidestepped it. :D Two years ago I was on holiday with all of the inlaws. I started to refer to meal time as 'Trough time'....(should give you a clue). |
Re: The parents are here...
Ahhhhh Parents are gem arent they, but nobody can beat my dad, spend half day with my dad & you all thank god for what you have, my mum was an angel, dont know how she put up with him, now she's gone, we are stuck with him.
The only think I'm so scare about when I get old would I turn out like my dad, that my children cant wait to get rid of me. Enjoy them, they Only here for another 2 1/2 months, youll missed them when they go back. |
Re: The parents are here...
Originally Posted by iPom
(Post 5287394)
Yes, though I love my parents, my mother drives me insane with her attitude... plus she's an overtly born again Christian who yacks on about god and how he's really 'moving in her life'... which means nothing to me, I'm afraid, but she still thinks we all need to hear it.
It's their lack of calorie burning and scoffing... And that I need to prepare 'proper' meals three times a day. I'm was still stuffed from dinner last night when I woke up this morning and I was asked by my mother when breakfast would be ready... I restrained my desire to point at the cupboard and fridge and say 'dig in'... They want 'proper' meals... so breakfast would be porridge, followed by some sort of bacon egg thing, and real coffee... before they settle down into a chair for the day. I avoided the question by going out for milk and bread, and neatly sidestepped it. :D |
Re: The parents are here...
Poor you!
One of my favourite quotes is `Guests always bring pleasure;if not in the coming, then the going` |
Re: The parents are here...
Originally Posted by iPom
(Post 5287394)
I avoided the question by going out for milk and bread, and neatly sidestepped it. :D
I'll do you a deal. Send them up here and if (god forbid) my mother ever decides to come over, you can have her. You can push her over Wentworth Falls. Miss them when they go back???? Total codswallop IMHO anyway :D |
Re: The parents are here...
Start training now for the City to Surf:lol:
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Re: The parents are here...
Originally Posted by moneypen20
(Post 5287526)
Miss them when they go back???? Total codswallop IMHO anyway :D
Haven't missed them for the past 18 months... don't see why I should when they go again. :blink: |
Re: The parents are here...
Originally Posted by gillysm
(Post 5287627)
Start training now for the City to Surf:lol:
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Re: The parents are here...
One of my biggest dreads is being stuck with visitors for months:(
Hope you manage to keep sane. Karma sent |
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