My mum is driving me crazy so this is probably more a rant than anything else. She has exceptionally high standards for everything but the one thing that is really getting to me is that every time she visits my home she will screw her nose up, sometimes hold it and tell me that it stinks.
I am a lone parent with a toddler and I work full time, I also work very hard to make sure that ds is growing up in a clean, tidy, presentable house. I don't smoke, we've no pets, bins are emptied regularly and nappies binned immediately. There's no old food or dirty dishes and I'm fully on top of dirty laundry. Floors are mopped and swept daily and hoovered weekly. Toilet is cleaned at least once every week.
I use products that I think give a lovely smell to the house like method products or zoflora. Windows are open every single day and I wash blankets and cushion covers monthly on average unless ds gets them dirty. Don't get me wrong, it's very much a lived in house and sometimes it's messy with ds toys or clean laundry needing put away but it's definitely clean.
She can't tell me what she thinks it smells like, she's said it's not the cleaning products I'm using but she still just walks around looking disgusted. It's really eating away at me because after being brought up by her I'm already paranoid about my home being fit for visitors.
Am I missing something?? I can't smell anything untoward but it's making me paranoid that I'm nose blind! I even do flipping simmer pots sometimes at the weekend. What do I do about this. I've told her repeatedly that this is rude but she just continues. I don't want to stop her having a relationship with my son and generally she has loosened up a LOT over the years and all stems from her own anxiety and poor mental health but this really grates on me.