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Of 35 total days of visitors (two separate lots). I would like a day off please.:eek::rofl:

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you are but a 1/4 of the way through, :rofl: told ya if you want peace and quiet then do a bodyswerve over to our place, we're back up in Nisku for a few days as of Tuesday - you could have the place all to yourself (well apart from the dog)

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Sometimes as much as I love visitors , I just want some peace and quiet!

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2 days till mine arrive.

So by your reckoning, next weekend I might be ready to bash someone?! :lol:

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Definitely. I didn't realise I was running a travel guide business, but that's what it's feeling like. And the endless nonsense that is spoken non stop is beginning to get right on my nerves:eek: (they don't even feel like they need a night out on their own:thumbdown:) Kids eh!:ohmy::rofl:

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Visitors are like fish. After three days they begin to smell.

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Pah!

Day 3 here of a 66 day MIL stay. It'll bring the total to 110 visitor days in the past 8 months. Ever feel taken advantage of?

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Are you Oink in disguise?:rofl:

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Does Mrs RICH ever read BE? :rofl: it'll be the doghouse for you young man :D

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I really wouldn't like to be you: you complain when they don't come; you complain when they do. What a happy life you must lead;)

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Pedant!

lol it's a true case of be careful what you wish for ;)

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Killjoy; perhaps. Pedant, don't know about that one.

It was tongue in cheek but I do struggle to think about a time when PP posted and was happy!:p

Each to their own

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Nope. This is my sanctuary, and place to vent :)

I doubt it this week. I did my 750 km round trip collection duty. I'm in credit. :thumbup:

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Just completed the latest parental visit. 18 days, 24 hours notice. Priceless.

Key points.

After supporting my gay cousin for twenty something years, my Dad believes that homosexuality is wrong, and not natural.

Mother would not have bought the dress I chose for my commitment ceremony.

Mother and Father think me and Mr Pretty Flowers should find new friends and other interests, as they don't like them.

Having said all of that, it was mostly great to see them. But also mostly great to see them go.

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I think you should move and not tell anyone:eek: Oh you already tried that:rofl:

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No I complain when my MUM doesn't come - can't wait to see her, it's just a struggle with people I don't know very well;)

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I'm not very happy at the moment:(

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How do you lot even get people to come ... all of my skinflint family and friends tell me it is too far and/or too expensive .... or maybe they just hate me/us and are using that as an excuse not to see us any more ... sob..... :cry_smile:

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Don't feel sad. It's taken 6 years for any of my family to come - they have just chosen all come at once. It started off as my Mum coming with my sister (Mum's not well) to keep costs down. Then at Christmas when we skyped for the first time my BIL said 'That's it we're all coming to Canada this summer!' I didn't think too much of it as that sort of thing has been said for the past five years.

In the mean time my Stepson is in talks with his dad and they book a really inconvenient time (now while school is still in) to come, OH last saw his son in 2008 at his Dad's funeral, so we couldn't/didn't want to say no.

THEN I get an email from my stepdad, I've just booked these flights (flight details enclosed) Six of us coming on 24th June for two weeks:thumbsup:

It just happens to be the day after my Stepson and his girlfriend go home after three weeks:eek:

It's been a bit of a roller coaster of emotions, it's bitter sweet with my Mum as it is likely to be the one and only time. It's been nerve wracking with my Stepson as I don't know him very well - OH has been really nervous, we've worried how we can afford it all, with the financial mess we were in. Then at the beginning of May we got and accepted an offer on our lake home - to complete the 3rd of June - day before Stepson arrived, we also had a contractor in doing my ensuite, so we've had sorrow for the loss of a dream, the relief that we are going to be solvent, the hassle of contractors, the moving and finding homes for furniture from another whole house, the getting ready of a house for visitors.

So it's been busy, I'm exhausted, was in bed and asleep by 930pm last night.

I am loving having people, I just thought they may like to do something on their own as they are only 19 and 20 and we're boring old farts:rofl: I know when my Mum's here we don't do much but eat and drink:rofl:

I also feel a bit of a fraud as this might not be my forever home:eek::eek:

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Learn to say "No" or "Not just yet, as we have others coming";)

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This has been our problem in the past. Not so much any more as there's only one or two left we would care to see.

They did actually book a trip over and even made it to the airport then the airline went bust (Canada 3000 I think) they went home and haven't re-booked anything since, I doubt they ever will come now.

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I think it depends where you live. When I lived in the States the only person to visit me was my dad. But since I moved to Vancouver I've had scores of people come, uncles and aunties, cousins, friends, friends of friends, even my other nan, Nanny Longtooth wanted to come over. Supposedly to see me before she died. She never wanted to come when I lived in Oregon, the selfish old bag. :frown:

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Your a complete ass sometimes, The ONLY time Stepson could come this year was NOW. The only time my Mum could come is in two weeks - much longer than that then she'll be likely unable to fly, she's taking a massive risk as it is but she is determined to get the number one thing on her bucket list done.

Would you really say no another time to a son you haven't seen for almost 4 years and a Mum who's on their last legs????

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Your post said nothing about this being the only time that your stepson could come. It sounded like your OH had made arrangements without consulting you.

I am sorry if you think I am an ass.

In answer to your question: If I had made the agreements and agreed to them all coming, I wouldn't post on a forum like this complaining about it. That is where you and I differ.

I know it is not your fault.

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I wasn't complaining, I was just requesting a break, OH provided me with the opportunity to have the morning off, whilst he took his son to the scrap yard:huh: I cleaned the bathrooms, swept the floors and dusted, and did the laundry, I also had peace and quiet, without mindless endless loud 20 year old boy chatter, that combined with an early night last night has done wonders. HOWEVER we are off to the mountains in one car on Friday:eek::eek:

Super worried abut my Mum now though as she wasn't able to mask how ill she really is when I called her earlier:( Just hope this trip doesn't kill her.

I don't think anyone in their right minds would have back to back visitors if it wasn't the only way.

Apologies for snapping;)

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It's to be hoped your mother has adequate medical travel insurance which covers existing conditions. I am personally aware of a situation where an elderly mother came to visit daughter and took seriously ill in Canada. Had existing condition, insurance refused to cover. The bill was $45,000.

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I have no idea, not my business, I would think it would be an unaffordable trip if they did get travel insurance but her macmillan nurses may have arranged something??? She wouldn't appreciate being called elderly she's only 60:rofl:

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I hope everything works out ok and that your Mum has a safe trip over. My best wishes to all the family.

My parents and brother were supposed to arrive today for a 3 week holiday (although they were going to stay in a hotel, not all in our 1 bedroom apartment!)

Sadly though my Dad had a stroke on Easter Monday and is still in hospital having rehab and trying to regain as much function as possible :cry_smile: I went over there in mid May for a week instead.

I just hope and pray that he will eventually recover enough to come here again, however long it takes. :unsure:

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Your Poor Dad, I hope he gets better really quickly, that has got to be so much more upsetting, actually booking and expecting and then something going wrong, my lot have always said, 'This year...'

Best wishes to you for your Dad, it's really crappy when someone falls ill so far away, I think that's why things are not quite so rosy for us anymore.