Aaahhhh. Mom left.

AnnapolisLari

It almost makes me wonder if she ran through the favorites on my PC and found my post yesterday, but even if she did, I don't feel all that bad.

She's going to come back before Thanksgiving because we're all going to my cousin's place, but that's at least a week-10 days away.

The reason she's been here is that she hates Maryland and wants to be in Ohio. I feel like I owe her because we stayed at her place for so long, but there's the other half of me that is just completely over it.

 

A-baybride

When her house sells, does she plan to live with you or buy her own place in Ohio?  For your sake, I hope the latter!  I love my mom and she's very respectful of boundaries, but I'd lose my mind if she lived with us.  

Enjoy your week off! 

AnnapolisLari

Oh, she's got a place all picked out about 15 minutes away. Perfect-- not in constant droppin'-in distance but still not a hassle if she wants to see the kids.

The one thing that really makes me insane is that she constantly buys a ton of food, booby traps the fridge/freezer/cabinets, and then there's so much that 5 people can't eat it before it spoils. I HATE waste, so I lose it when she does that.

A-baybride

LOL at booby trapping.  We just moved to a house with a fridge where the freezer is on top (I'm used to a side by side) with no shelves so every time I open it there's an avalanche of frozen peas, breast milk, baby food and salmon filets.  If we don't get a chest freezer soon I'm going to become homicidal!

AnnapolisLari

LOL

I have an ancient side by side that came with the house. We have a home warranty, and I am waiting for it to die.

But my mom just buys more and more crap, and stuffs it in randomly wherever she can push stuff hard enough to make a space. Or leaves a partially used bag of something open, with no twist tie or rubber band, and it falls out and you have 743 peas shooting in every direction, including under the fridge to mummify there.

Or worse yet, makes up some leaky little package of leftovers, and sticks it in the top of the door so it leaks down the entire face of the stuff, in the freezer and the door, and then freezes solid.

I can't wait for a new fridge, and a mom that lives back in her own house.