Students home.

[Etinox]

Usual disclaimer about light hearted etc. And I literally prepared like a Romcom set dresser with roaring fire, candles immaculate rooms right down to folded christmas pjs and slippers, Christmas playlist and supper ready. I love them to bits and am being nice!!
But would anyone care to join me with a checklist of petty gripes.
Random lights on ✔️
Constant soundscape of tinny podcasts with omg American ‘so, I’m like...’ ✔️
Water bottles everywhere ✔️
Lift requests which I don’t mind ✔️
Usually seen from behind as they critique the fridge (but still empty ✔️
Banging doors, not in anger, they’re just clutzy! ✔️
Utter disdain for the dishwasher ✔️
Chargers disappearing ✔️
They’ve been home less than 12 hours! We’ve not got to the crunchy floors and philosophical musings on our lives beliefs and jobs yet!

[Etinox]

They’ll get their stockings first thing when I wake up, I’ll be up first as they’re all out at the pub Midnight Mass.

[Blobby10]

@WaxOnFeckOff I’ve had this too 😂😂😂 her older brother complained and she did apologise but I’ve not been back to see if she cleared up after her latest shower 😂😂

[bigbluebus]

DS has been back since Wednesday. He likes to cook- but by goodness he hates to clear up! My kitchen looks like a bomb has hit it every time he concocts a new creation. This morning it was curry spiced sausage rolls with mango chutney - and a yoghurt, mint and lemon dip to eat them with! He made his own curry spice mix - 8 assorted jars out of the cupboard. Thank goodness he was using up left over pastry and not making his own!

[HollysBush]

Oh and I have no conditioner left and the drains are now clogged with hair.
lol, this exactly!
I’ve bought drain unblocker especially.

[Xenia]

Etinox, it sounds like you have worked very hard and it will all go well. Anyway one of mine has specialised since he was about 4 in telling me what some other mothers do and I don't mind - I am happy they will have a good Christmas. There will always be some other family which does things differently or better.

[WaxOnFeckOff]

Oh and I have no conditioner left and the drains are now clogged with hair.

[WaxOnFeckOff]

can I add to it?

DS2 home for the first proper holiday, now has a girlfriend so we have the random driving over to see her, 12 miles of country roads that he's not familiar with and not telling me when or if he's coming home but not having a key either...

Driving her home late at night in the fog and being asked to take a key and still not taking one...

I keep saying to him that I appreciate that he lives away and doesn't have to answer to anyone, but at home I'm not happy that he doesn't let me know and I'm not happy to leave the house open for him all night.

Everything is broken, everything...well apart from things that are just lost.

Home one day and we had brken phone, broken laptop, ripped t-shirt, hole in arse of jeans, loads of odd socks, lost glasses (which funnuliy enough he needs to be able to see properly), and a request as to how to get the smell of sick out of a leather jacket.

However, his room is actually reasonably clean (cos, you know, girlfriend....)

[MuchBetterNow]

All of the above plus I now know every Beyoncé song ever written and it's abundantly clear who's using all the toilet paper.

[BillThePony]

So far dd has been out to London about 20 mins from us and ended up at a house party in Hatfield, she rang me at 5am pissed asking how she got home. (I didn't collect her she got the train)

Next night out she arrived home sober but woke us all up making food in the kitchen at 2am.

I have pointed out that this isn't her student house

[Etinox]

@Xenia I was working until 8pm the night before they came home and thought fuckit, I’ll get done. Started clearing at midnight, got to bed at 4, was swayey tired at work then literally spent half hour lighting fire. Sorry if romcoming that’s not place isn’t sisterly of me- I bloody moan about it to them so there’s no question of them thinking it’s just what mum does!
@Blobby10 grr! That sounds exhausting!

[Xenia]

One of mine was telling me all the things other wonderful mothers do to prepare... so perhaps it is Etinox preparing like a romcom for hers which my 2 student children (who came home on Saturday) then compared with... [ not he is not seriously annoyed but he does go on about all the things these others families do at times....]

They just go back from some Christmas shopping and brought a school friend back and I just heard one of mine explaing she (that will be I the cat's mother...) bought XYZ [ something about Christmas food being a strange choice].

They are lovely to have home however and 2 of their older sibilngs will be here to stay later today.

[Blobby10]

Love the ‘grannie sitting ‘ 😁😁😁mymiddle one has just realised he left his passport in London - he’s flying from our local airport on 27th! After exhausting all possibilities of rail travel it means I have to drive him to London on 26 to pick up bloody passport then take him to airport the next day 😁😁 I love him to bits but long for the days when he thinks for himself 😁😁😁

[Etinox]

I consider complaining about the missing wrapping paper and sellotape as humble bragging!
Youngest returnee is now keeping mil out of my hair! grannie sitting in the front room.

[Babyroobs]

My student ds has been home about two weeks early due to coming home for a weekend and getting ill and needing surgery and ending up staying. He has become nocturnal, crashes around in the night, takes my car out in the night to get Mcdonalds, takes up the whole sofa ( says it's because of the surgery he needs to lie down ! ) and is generally winding everyone up. I feel your pain.

[whyamidoingthis]

The bags just dumped at the front door when they arrive and the grumpy “I said I’d move them” when you ask for the 10th time.

The assumption they can borrow the car whenever they like. Particularly a problem when both of them want it at the same time, dh has taken my car and I need to drop younger ds somewhere.

The complete lack of food. The cupboards and fridge were full yesterday. I’m off to the supermarket again today.

Plus everything everyone else is enduring.

[HollysBush]

😂Roasting goose

[HollysBush]

Yes, arghhh! But how lovely to have a house full. Also, my daughter cooked Christmas dinner for her uni friends the other week so I’ve given her job of boiling ham and toast in goose today while I’m at work.

[Hingeandbracket]

Argghhhhhhhh The tinny podcasts!!!!! Make it stop.

[MatildaTheCat]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but DS is 30 and home for Christmas and it’s exactly the same. Switches straight back in teen mode. Very affable but bloody useless.

[Blobby10]

two of my three have just left to spend the day with their Dad and his new wife - third one will drive himself there in a bit. I'm so relieved to have the house to myself just for a few hours and have a relief from the CONSTANT questions!!! Is it just mine? I thought I'd seen the back of the 'Muuuum where are the nail clippers?' 'Muuuum where are the cups?' 'Muuuum how do I do ..........(insert most basic task of choice here!) '.

i love them to bits and would happily put up with the constant noise for ever more rather than not see them but I'm so looking forward to today and six hours of peace

[chillykiwi]

All of the above but with the teens who live here.

Student home - occasion footprints from upstairs, plates and bowls disappear from the kitchen and all of a sudden the sink is full as if by magic. Scissors and sellotape disappear along with wrapping paper.

[Etinox]

@wanderings I’m so aware it’s a big adjustment for them too!
@silencebeforethebleeps hope you get to see them!

[wanderings]

Although I love my parents, I remember hating being the student coming home, especially in the summer, it always felt like a real loss of independence and adulthood. I'd have stayed at university over Christmas if I possibly could!

[silencebeforethebleeps]

@Etinox They're his kids...if he wanted them there, he would make room.

[WhatshouldIdo123]

Yep.... fucking shoes EVERYWHERE. Lights left on EVERYWHERE. Back door left unlocked all night. Friendly requests to send quick text to let me know if she is.not coming home after night out ignored. Upstairs migration of every mug into her shit hole of a room...and my socks starting to disappear.