...so the hard work begins:
children hair to be washed
mummy hair to be washed and dried down (she doesn't like me wearing it in a ponytail - makes me look 'drawn')
beds, all to be changed and sheets to be ironed
blinds to be dusted
cakes to be made
loos to be scrubbed
shopping to be got (from Marks and Spencer, she won't eat anything else)
carpets to be hoovered
cobwebs to be got rid of
floors to be bleached
children to float on air until she comes
husband to be moody
children to be over excited as they will receive presents
Mummy to be excited as she takes children off my hands for the whole time she is here
Best clothes to be worn by all
Dinner to be booked as she is going to babysit (hoooray! First meal out with husband since 1902 or thereabouts)
False smiles to be worn whilst stepdad talks about politics
Lots of eating to be done to avoid 'you are looking too thin' comments.
Hope she doesn't open any wardrobe doors whilst we are out, or the truth about my slovenly habits will be revealed and that image she has of me as 'managing so well', 'always have such a tidy house' will be well and truly shattered. Why do I feel like I can't be myself, warts and all in front of my own mother??
NB - not that I have any kind of wart...don't want you all imagining I am riddled...
15 comments:
Good Luck, although I hope you do wear your hair down more often, suits you(are you now worried that you have a stalker - cue scary ghost woo hoooo).
ps, your blog hasn't come up as newly updated on my list - gremlin?
Oh my Mum thinks that if I leave one roast potato on the plate that you're anorexic or something like that.
You're lucky. My Mum never comes and stays with me. Make the most of it! But shame she doesn't come on her own , by the sound of it.
Hope it goes well
Do you think you will become like this when your kids are older and living with an 'other half'?
Frightening thought isn't it!
MH - Glad you like my hair down, it's such a pain in the arse to blow dry as I have so much of it. I think you are a nice stalker to have.
Gremlins, gremlins everywhere. Not one comment I have made tonight on peoples blogs has been submitted. A sign perhaps?
Jennysmith- Yes I will try make the most of it. And I haven't done any of my cleaning yet so will be one big sweaty state tomorrow. She arrives at 2pm...
Tara - Ihave no doubt I will end up just like her. I am my mother's daughter, and I know my eldest daughter is going to be just the same...and so it carries on. I can only apologise to her in advance. I keep meaning to write myself a list of things that I should never do when my daughters are older...
At least she is going to babysit! I have neither a mother or mother in law (both have died) so I always feel a bit jealous of people who have grandparents to help out....mind you, a friend of mine recently invited her in-laws on holiday thinking they would help with the kids and they didn't do anything while she and her husband slaved away!
Sheets to be ironed? Sheets to be.. ironed? Surely some mistake!
Good luck! Do I take it your mum was a career housewife? I'm lucky, I'm a working mum with a working mum who understands! Now my MIL, that's another story .........
My god those are some high standards to meet. You'll be flat on your back with exhaustion by the time she gets here. And then she'll tell you it's because you don't eat enough!
You bleach your floors?!! Now that is beyond the call of duty!
Funny how we have to look as though we're managing isn't it?! Can you send her round after you've finished with her? We haven't been out since 1899!!!
(found you at The Cigarette Diaries)
I have to repeat what the dotterel says, "sheets to be ironed" INDEED! PUT THAT IRON DOWN WOMAN!!!!
I keep telling my daughter that we all eventually turn into our mothers, she looks very afraid !
Have we got the same mother? Good luck.
Even El Vel doesn't iron sheets, she does, however, bring the marigolds with her to attend to urgent tasks that I haven't noticed for 8 months or so e.g. Wiping behind the Venetian blinds etc. She also watches our wine intake like a hawk, but I love her dearly! Blogthatmamax
Well... you didn't catch the warts from my blog! Mine got removed!
Good luck with the visit - at least you get to palm them off for a bit. Mine feigns every illness under the sun so as to avoid doing any real Granny stuff!
p.s. Is George gay now cos you turned him down?
Nappy Valley - YOu are welcome to borrow mine, just make sure you clean well before she comes. She has standards...actually, you have a cleaner don't you? Hmmm, I am jealous...
the dotteral - don't worry, I didn't get around to ironing them, the went on the bed, and I got the kids to jump up and down until you couldn't notice the creases as much. I ironed the pillowcases, so it maybe gives the illusion I ironed the sheets?
Working mum - she was a full time housewife until she left my dad, and she loved it and finds it hard to understand why I struggled giving up work, why I sometimes don't find it enought etc etc. It's a bit of a weird one really...your mum was obviously very forward thinking.
Expat mum - were you peering through my window? Because that is exactly what happened...
Suburbia - hello and welcome. Sorry for the tardy response I was computerless for 4 days! OUCH! I will send her round. Things have changed a bit since 1800s. Hope you have something to wear...
Mom/Mum - see above comment to dotteral. Iron is down today Hubby's birthday so can't be arsed!
Auuntiegwen - hello welcome back. Nice hols? Yes, I am becoming my mother and my eldest daughter is already like me. Poor poppet.
TT - Possibly, she does keep disappearing to France every now and then...
Blogthatmama - I like the sound of your mum, I could always curtail my alcohol intake for someone who cleans the dead flies out from behind my blinds...
That girl - George has been gay ever since I married, he was so heartbroken that he couldn't bear to be with another woman bless him...
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