20-08-2015, 01:14 PM
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the aftermath of family staying
Pheeewww , I'm exhausted , daughter and 2 grandchildren stayed for two days and just left , I waved a loving happy smile to see them go. I love em all to bits but by golly they wear me out. Don't get me wrong they are well behaved children , I think it's their mum who wears me out. She is messy , brings enough clothes and stuff for weeks , uses my make up and hair stuff , but it gets left lying around . I constantly pick up after her , she tidies up but leaves a mess .The kitchen table covered In food and drinks when meals finished , food on the floor , crumbs and food dropped around . Believe me I love every moment of it , but I'm now sitting here too exhausted to hoover through or even put the masses of towels into wash .
Now I know exactly how my mum felt when we drove off after visiting her for a few days .
Till the next time when I welcome them here with open arms .......
Aint it the truth 
20-08-2015, 01:45 PM
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I dont have this problem Susan as my two grown-up sons live with me all the time,(no grand children)and they leave a trail after them lol....only joking really!Mind you their bedrooms are like chalk and cheese,with one being spotless and everything in its place and the other well you can imagine lol.!
20-08-2015, 02:23 PM
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I know how you feel Susan. Two weeks of my son and his wife left me shattered. My son is so particular in his own home, he cooks and cleans, mum and the army taught him well, but come to visit mum and it's a complete change round. Cameras, laptops, electrical gear everywhere, clothes and shoes everywhere, his wife was just as bad, his answer to my grumbles about picking up after him "that's what mums are for" !
20-08-2015, 06:11 PM
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I felt the same slightly less than yourself as my family live in France.I used to visit them regularly in Manchester then they emigrated
due to my sons job. They came in April and I had the same.
I sometimes wish for that mess but can appreciate how hard it is
to clean it up when you are getting older.
20-08-2015, 07:08 PM
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We are the same here Susan, the two teenage grandsons can be very messy flinging clothes here and there, toothpaste all over the bathroom sink, shoes changed and left where they stood out of them, and what have you, but we know they don't do it intentionally, even though constant reminders go in one ear and out the other, they always seem to be in a hurry to get back out again, I think they are chasing a few girls in the locality, they smell like two roses when they come down from the bathroom, splattered with deodorant. I suppose I was the same meself when I was their age, and they'll be back for a hard years studying at school next week, but we'd sooner be picking up after them than being without them.
20-08-2015, 08:24 PM
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I'm glad that I'm not the only one who feels relief when family take their leave susan m. You've made me feel much better.When my mother and mother in law used to say that they were pleased to see their family but were also pleased to see them go I used to think what a strange thing to say. I know exactly what they meant now.
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