ok am done with the brooding. now i need to know if i am. be gentle[grin]

[CvQ]

gahhhh mother has taken it upon herslef to tidy and rearrange my food cupboards after only being here 4 hours.am i being unreasonable to be annoyed or should i be grateful

be gentle

You SHOULD be grateful, but I would be livid!

Did you ask her to? Or has she just taken it upon herself?

no didnt ask her.she is trying to be helpful in her own very special way gahhhhhh

Id be mad as fire. (Or I would if my mum were still around to do it. ) I get cross enough when DH does it.

How are you supposed to find anything afterwards?? Gahh

God woman give her a list
Make use of her lol
Sorry about your arm btw CVQ
x

Was about to say "well it's one less job to be done" then thought..."yeah, but how many other jobs would have been more helpful than rearranging rice and titivating tins????

Do you feel like giving her the benefit of the doubt?

ooooo. i'd be fuming

how's the wrist today? have you accesorised yet?

exactly

how is your wrist CVQ? good enough to lamp her with? .

YANBU - it is a motherly way of indicating that she doesn't feel you're doing it "quite right" - i.e. how SHE would do it. Ask her to write a detailed map of where she has put everything. That'll slow her down.

no accessories yet.j has nursery visit tommorow.dare i leave her alone for an hour.ill come back and would have redecorated

it has crosed my mind thumbwitch.if it wasnt still so sore

and more ggaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhssssss

ah bless, here have a virtual hanky.
Tricky one I know, cos mums tend to take the huff if you suggest that they are not being as helpful as they think they are - and if you ask her not to move anything else, however politely, she might still get the hump.

Give her a pile of ironing/ folding (NOT putting away!!) and washing to do so that she'll be occupied - after all, you'd be a health hazard, trying to iron with a busted wrist (doesn't matter if it's the wrong hand! the plaster will make you clumsy, of course it will, and then you risk burning something!)

Or if you don't have any washing or ironing that needs doing, moan about the state of the curtains (especially nets if you have them) and how you were going to handwash them (hem hem) this week but now you can't (wave plaster pathetically) and it would be lovely if she would do that for you....

evil

thumbwitch i will makeup produce a list of pointless usefull jobs for her to do tomorrow

am still gahhhhhhhhhh

you're in plaster?

gaaahhhhhhhh

indeed

yes had a stupid accidnet yesterday morning

how stupid

Or should I search archives??

i've put a picture on my profile page.
what do you think?

stupid CvQ

oh CVQ my worst nightmare is my mother visiting me, she cant help herself and has to do something. She even came over when I was on holiday once and went through the house doing little jobs. We couldnt find anything for months.

Is she staying over?

love the building blocks

yes shes sleeping on the sofa downstairs alone gaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh what will she have done by morning gaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

fanks

can you spell any other big words lol

bugger me

you don't do stuff by halves do you?

hope you fell better get rid of unwanted cupboard tidier soon

oh CVQ you are truely amazing. I would have bopped her on the head with my cast by now.

Just keep saying to yourself that she is only trying to help. If you have any jobs that you want doing dont feel bad about mentioning them to her. She would love to feel needed.