I’m very very ready for my young adult children to go home now ?

[Goldypants]

Case for the prosecution:

1. LUNCH. My GOD JUST HAVE A SANDWICH. Why can’t young people eat lunch food? Not pasta or bagels or cooked this or that
2. Inability to take the bins out
3. work calls that take up a whole room
4. GLASSES everywhere

I love them obviously. But they can go home now.

(They are any day )

@moomoomoo27 : My theory is that parents love their kids less the older they get. They try to justify every single stage as a difficult stage and it'll pass. Then they're older and hate their grown up children even more, because they're never good enough in one way or another. Then they look back and think the younger years weren't so bad after all, even though they hated the stages at the time. It's sad really.

Yeah, my 2 are nearly 30, and I fucking loathe them. Wish they'd sod off and leave me alone. Like, just don't contact me at all. Urgh kids.. BLEURGH!!!!

#sarcasm #joking

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I'm with him!!!

I'm approaching 50 and always thought that a mid-life crisis required me to have an affair with someone much younger and buy a sports car. Frankly I haven't got the energy for either!

After reading this thread I'm thinking that all day spent in PJs and my job is done. Result! That said, I also don't know if I can be bothered to cook anything beyond a toastie for lunch. Does that mean I'm thrown out out of the club???

Omg don't take it so seriously!

God you're so right.
I mean, my 3, and one fiance, travelled by boat, plane, car and bus, through the night, to be here for xmas. To spend time with me and dh. To crawl into their childhood beds with their Xmas duvets on. They came laden with gifts for us, especially me as I'm just out of hospital. I had to stop them coming early when I was ill.

I defo consider them not picking up their dirty mugs much much worse than anything good they have done. Utterly selfish bastards.
Clearly I'm an utter failure.
Ora maybe you just haven't a clue what you are on about.

@sweetpickle23 I think it is implied that the bagel is a sandwich with airs and graces

I think we all agree we love our kids and having them home for christs sake. This was quite explicit.

any relationship becomes with moments of annoyance, and this is one of them

That’s because I am a very very old mumsnetter. ;)

Lolol at protein.

we have a bag of it sitting on the kitchen floor. And those whisk-y shake cups . Giant

Visit YouTube for SNL back home baller…to see how truly universal this all is. My DS 22 spent 15$ on 2 bunches of asparagus tonite. And 11$ on kabuchi.

It could be worse. Next door's have had Deliveroo pretty much every single day they've been home.

I complain about my lot getting through a jar of marmite in a week on after school toast but it could be worse.

I always eat ‘cooked food’ for lunch because I don’t like cold food. Never have. Food is food, what difference does it make?

I love that my teen DC cook and that they enjoy a wide variety of foods from all over the world. Far better than when I was in uni and we existed on chip butties and 25p Tesco Value pasta by the pound!

@LuckySantangelo35 I have cooked food at lunch time but I meal prep and/or batch cook at the weekends and WFH two days a week. Cooking and food is one of my main interests, we spend $130 (~£100) a week on the food shop for three of us, which doesn’t seem extraordinarily expensive to me. Cleaning up is mostly when I do the meal prep so happens all at once, then it’s usually just one pan and a plate or two which gets put in the dishwasher after lunch if there’s time or after work if there’s not!

Yes mine never seem to have a cold lunch such as a sandwich, unless it's sushi!

It's always something like noodles with eggs, ie the sort of thing you get in Wagamama (miso, ramen, kimchi)!

Drives me nuts!

indeed

@Goldypants seriously??

you assumed i was interested in knowing the exact address of your children Op rather than if they were students at uni or lived in their own home? 😂

There's a silver lining I never thought of with my Autistic DC. No elaborate meals, it hardly seems worthwhile teaching them to cook when everything they'll eat is raw or can be done in the airfyer. The boys love sandwiches and DD loves wraps, no elaborate lunches here, but their young so maybe they'll grow into the elaborate lunch phase.

get off mumsnet so much and you’ll find you have loads more time available @LuckySantangelo35 !

Agree this has been a great 'old school' thread. Like the olden days.

The people saying this thread is weird , or sad, just you wait till you have young adults,.....explains why animals eat their young

Protein shakes and smoothies with every different type of frozen fruit done in my ninja soup maker couple times a day and not washed out properly. And dropping lumps of frozen berries on kitchen floor to defrost & be trodden on.

That’s because post of us here are the old’ uns ! My eldest is not much younger than I was when I first posted in mumsnet almost at the beginning 😮

I've remembered the cheese and the eggs.

When the youngest is home, she gets through boxes of eggs and blocks of cheddar without either DH or I actually seeing what happens.

It's some sort of magic: you open the fridge and there you see plenty of cheddar (one and a half blocks) and a dozen eggs.
Close the door, step away for 30 secs.
Then you reopen the door and POOF, a token ounce of cheddar and 3 eggs (in two boxes, obvs) remain

If I ate eggs and cheddar in those quantities, I'd be shaped like a barrage balloon. DD however has a teeny tiny waist.

My biggun (17 stone sportsman) doesn’t like “raw cheese” so i don’t suffer the greater issues.

I first joined Mumsnet when he wouldn’t sleep through the night, so there’s some perspective

A staple of lunch for ours is the baked bacon and (grated) cheese croissant. Not only do we suffer the inevitable cheesy confetti floor but I’m going through croissants more quickly than a Parisian bakery on a Sunday morning.

Still ten days more until uni return for one…