Every summer we are invited to stay at our parents fir a couple of weeks. We live far and that way they get to spend time with grand kids. My sister also comes.
This time my mum has just been a nightmare, literally making issue out of nothing, constantly going on at us for not cleaning certain dishes that we used except we didn't use them! For example yesterday she started screaming that we didn't clean the oven tray after using it, we didn't cook anything in the oven, we didn't use any tray, that looks like pizza base stuck on. I told her we didn't use the oven so that isn't our dirty tray in there, she's adamant we used the oven because no one else did! Even though she has no idea that it could be 3 other siblings that live there that may have used it.
Over the course of 10 years, everytime I come am buying new pillows and duvets, as for some reason there's not enough. Fine I don't mind buying my own. These get used even after I've left, or the old ones get thrown out and my new ones are used by them. Anyways this time I came, all the pillows my mum gave me are old, none of them are the ones I purchased, and are completely flat, like I kid you not, flat!!!! There's no way a child can sleep on that let alone an adult. I told her about this and explained am always buying pillows and duvets, it's not fair to expect me to keep buying it, leave mine alone and I can use it when I come. She just said they are your pillows they have just gone flat after being used for a long time, firstly they aren't mine, I know for a fact, secondly if it's the case that they were mine, why are they being used and getting flat and then am expected to use them!
So I searched the house and found 2 new pillows, I knew if I ask for it she will say no, so I just took them and started using it. Today she went looking for those pillows, asked me, and I told her am using them. She went completely crazy on me infront of all the children. They are cheap pillows, I won't be taking them forever, you aren't using them right now, I'll be gone at the weekend. She was saying they are her pillows and I shouldn't have been touching them. I told her my pillows are flat and I can't sleep and you seriously couldn't give me pillows you have and expected me to sleep like that. She just wouldn't stop going on at me, shouting. The kids are all watching. I got very upset and told her of all the expensive household furnitures I've bought her over the years, anything she ever wants and asks for, I get it for her and she seriously is shouting at me over a £5 pillow???? To which she then says, why are you crying over a pillow?? Like what even?? She's the one going psycho over a pillow not me!
I am so not coming to stay ever again!!! Am so angry and upset!! She's never been like this before but this time she's just finding anything to moan and scream about. If I didn't live so far, I would've just left right now.
Needed this off my chest. I have children of my own, I can't possibly imagine letting them sleep awkwardly when I've invited them to stay!