I'm afraid I've given you the wrong impression and would like to set things straight.
No, I do not enjoy being banished to the kitchen while the rest of you lounge about on the sofa enjoying the rest of the movie I turned on for myself.
That kitchen banishment? Despite my happy face, I don't enjoy finally making it to join you all at the table and discovering all of the good bits have been picked and eaten out of my beautiful tossed salad, NOR do I enjoy clearing off the table while you wrestle.
Another misconception is that I love cleaning bathrooms.
I really don't want to ask why there is yellow drips on the walls, I am choosing to believe the previous occupant was a smoker and that's nicotine dribbling down the walls due to the high moisture in the room.
However, I'm finding it hard to convince myself that smoker has coughed up a lung on the toilet seat while we are living here.
AND, if one must make a big green cloud in said room, one should open a window and not just close the green cloud in so that some poor unfortunate bladder-challenged woman nearly passes out upon entering the room.
Gingerbread air freshener and decomposing frog is not a good combination. Please leave the spray out of the bathroom.
While speaking of bathrooms...
Miss Ky, I appreciate you have this need for good oral hygiene, but could your sudden drive to cleanse your teeth happen when I am NOT in the shower?
And if you decide to do it all by yourself and happen to spill about a half a cup of blue toothpaste on my carpet, it's best to just admit it instead of trying to hide it under your Snow White slippers.
By the way...
Can anyone enlighten me as to how a child measuring 42 inches can get toothpaste splatter six feet high on a mirror?
Your loving mother, Hostage
No sleeping children or innocent pedestrians were harmed in this shot taken while driving...
I hated banishment into the kitchen too...so I don't cook anymore. He does...muwahahahaha!!
ReplyDeleteI get first dibs on bathroom...absolutely no exceptions. And all toothpaste and mouthwash is rationed...violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of MY laws!!
Good luck mom!!
Hugs
SueAnn
The bathroom thing(s)? Here, too! I suppose the yellow blends somewhat well with the boogers we also have on the bathroom walls.
ReplyDeleteTalent! That's how!!! My boys loved standing on the bathroom counters and brushing their teeth so the "splat" in the sink was REALLY a SPLAT!!
ReplyDeleteNo Lie! The word verification for this comment is "spittin"!
I have a family full of clueless, misinformed folks too. They are under the false impression that I enjoy washing smelly, muddy, wet clothes and picking up and putting away the shoes and socks that they leave lying around wherever they happen to be when they take them off. I could go on for quite a while on the things they misunderstand, but I won't. If you figure out a way to make your family understand these things, let me know. My family definitely needs some enlightening too.
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ReplyDeleteSounds like you need to educate your family a bit about helping if they like eating.
I hate, hate, hate the yellow anything in the bathroom too. yuck. Is aiming really that much to ask? I don't even want to think about the fact that they might be aiming.
Hang in there mom--you certainly have a right to voice your concerns.
ReplyDeleteAs the usual bathroom cleaner in the house, our downstairs 1/2 bath is usually like a war zone--I have to be courageous to enter.
Sounds like it's time to outsource the bathroom cleaning. If I come in and discover wee on toilet seats I make them come back and clean it up themselves, purely to help them remember it's THEIR RESPONSIBILITY.
ReplyDeleteThat whole kitchen banishment thing-- Hate it! I can tell the meal is over when my family gets up and lays on the sofa WAITING for dessert. Ha! YOu can only imagine how that flies. Not.
ReplyDeleteHang in there,
jj
Make sure they read this letter Jeri or better still print it out and put copies of it in the bathroom, kitchen, loungeroom, bedroom....everywhere.
ReplyDeleteSending lots of love and light your way dear friend.
Hugs
Peggy xxx
Of all the things that I had in mind to say about this post (and it's a lot, trust me), the last picture just completely blew my mind. Dude, that girl of yours looks completely and thoroughly British. I love it.
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ReplyDeletehmm... i think we could ALL write letters to our families...
"Dear Hubby, when I spend three hours cleaning the house to get it ready for our showing while you play on the computer, don't expect me to thank you for taking 10 minutes to take the garbage out, especially when you NEVER replace the kitchen bag"
This is why I am SOOOOOO not looking forward to potty training my two little men. My girls are bad enough on their own, and they don't get to try aiming. Ugh.
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