This morning I was about to have a shower before going out...but someone beat me to the bathroom (we only have one) so after half an hour I called through the door to ask if they'd be long...DD called back that she wouldn't. 15 mins later I asked her to hurry up and she said she'd be two minutes. 15 minutes later she emerged from a cloud of steam...the floor was completely flooded.
Meanwhile I'd cleared up her mess from yesterday....I'd been out yesterday and left her with her 19yo brother. When I got home claimed she had hoovered everywhere downstairs and mopped the kitchen floor, and for this she wanted £10, (and £10 for cleaning the car, but that's a different story) no agreement had been made, she just decided this while we were out
So I've had to bring in the kitchen bins and mats which she'd taken outside, put away the hoover which was dumped in the middle of the hall with the cable training everywhere, cleaned up the dirty plates she left on the garden table and the bowls and many wafer crumbs from the living room (which presumably she's created after hoovering). One of the bowls contained blackberries and she knows she's banned from eating blackberries etc in the living room or her bedroom after she ruined some very nice soft furnishings in her room by smothering her bed in blackberries.
And the reason she is trying to earn money is that she suddenly started crying on the beach last week for a £130 skateboard (having never shown any previous interest in skateboards) after 24 hours of sobbing we gave in, and subbed her the extra £30 she needed, and she now wants to pay us back. She never, ever cries normally which is why we caved.
She's just turned 13....is this normal, or has one of us suddenly become really, really unreasonable.
I may have shouted at her when she finally emerged from the bathroom