Who's house can I visit for a couple of weeks?!

[Sew So Happy]

Ya'll better pray for my sanity! My dad and stepmom are coming from Orlando for a visit around the 19th. They want to stay for a few days or "whenever I get tired of them". My stepmom is an original. She is that woman that complains about everything! There has not been once that she goes to a restaurant and the food is not right. My grandmother sent some apples one year as a Christmas gift from some orchard in NH. My grandmother found out later that my stepmom had written a nasty letter about the condition of the apples and called to complain, also! My grandmother was so embarassed, because she knew the owner and they told her about it. She once had some poor bagboy repack all her groceries, because she didn't think he did it right the first time.
My grandmother and step grandfather are coming down the very next week and the weekend in between is when I am having my son's birthday party. I told my husband I might catch a plane to Iraq and hang out with him! You know, he always seems to be gone when my family comes, hmmmm. He was in Afghanistan when my mom came five years ago. She lives in Va Beach, Va. There was also one year when she came to visit and he had to go to Va Beach on TDY. Talk about some good excuses! He leaves the country when in laws are coming. I wish I could. That would be why I live here and they all live in various places. Does anyone else have such a dysfunctional family of their own?
Okay, can you tell I have been home with a toddler all day? Thanks for letting vent.:) I just love ya'll!:D
UPDATE! The stomach virus came through our house from one kid to another this past weekend. My parents had already left and gotten as far as the panhandle when I had called them to update that we were all getting sick. My third child just started throwing up last night while I was at the emergency room with the youngest. Luckily, he was with my mil and my six year old at her house. Needless to say, they decided to turn around and go home. I am not sure this is the way I wanted things to turn out. Kids are all stabilized now and I see a light at the end of the tunnel. Jessica's laundromat has closed for the day! I have washed so many sheets, towels, blankets, etc!:)

[StitchinGrandma]

OH MY! I already told ya if you don't mind a messy house you're more than welcome here. LOL The best part is that NO ONE in the family would ever think to look here. :D I mean, afterall, aren't I just an imaginary internet friend? :p

[artsiegirl]

Well bless your heart! I feel so bad for you because I know what it's like. Sadly though, all of my family live within a few miles of me and some live just across the lake. My dh's entire family is obsessive-compulsive (and even make jokes about it:confused: )and he chose to marry an artist! What in this world was he thinking???!!!! I'll keep you in my prayers.

[anpola]

I've decided that most families are at least a tiny bit disfunctional if not a lot. I guess it's about making the best of what we have. It makes life interesting! I't be fun to be able to have a sewing party! Come on over!

[nanamcd]

Sew So Happy, you need a Calgon soak in the tub (or maybe you're too young to remember "Calgon, take me awaaaay...").

But if that doesn't work and enjoying the cold and snow of Illinois in February sounds good, come on up! DD Heather lives here in town, and VickiT lives just up the road about an hour and a half. Your family could enjoy your place in solitude, and we could have one amazingly fun stitching party and giggle fest!

Meantime, keeping you in my prayers and happy thoughts!

[StitchinGrandma]

Sew So Happy, you need a Calgon soak in the tub (or maybe you're too young to remember "Calgon, take me awaaaay...").

But if that doesn't work and enjoying the cold and snow of Illinois in February sounds good, come on up! DD Heather lives here in town, and VickiT lives just up the road about an hour and a half. Your family could enjoy your place in solitude, and we could have one amazingly fun stitching party and giggle fest!

Meantime, keeping you in my prayers and happy thoughts!
That's what I keep telling her and I have a huge hot tub on our enclosed front porch too. AND a husband that delivers drinks if necessary while relaxing unless he's in there too.:D

[windwillow]

I too have the family thing week after next. this week (14th) we have some friends in for six days, then we go to see my Mom who is a constant complainer, everything is wrong, everyone is rude, I'm too old, I'm too feeble (Thank God I love her dearly)I want to go to the mall, then she says it's too busy when I take her, need to clean her spare room but leave the boxes(packed up in 81) alone. Then lets go through the photo albums, who took my pictures (she gave each child the pictures of themself). Someone's been in my house stealing things, oh never mind I have a dog and I never go anywhere unless you come over and take me. (My sister takes her out at least twice a week just not to the mall and that is where my Mom wants to go.) She is somewhat forgetful nowdays, I told her I was just like her so we make a great pair. Moms...you just got to love "em, I'm thankful that I still have her.
Enough of the complaining Keneta, you are just your Mom......

[Sew So Happy]

I too have the family thing week after next. this week (14th) we have some friends in for six days, then we go to see my Mom who is a constant complainer, everything is wrong, everyone is rude, I'm too old, I'm too feeble (Thank God I love her dearly)I want to go to the mall, then she says it's too busy when I take her, need to clean her spare room but leave the boxes(packed up in 81) alone. Then lets go through the photo albums, who took my pictures (she gave each child the pictures of themself). Someone's been in my house stealing things, oh never mind I have a dog and I never go anywhere unless you come over and take me. (My sister takes her out at least twice a week just not to the mall and that is where my Mom wants to go.) She is somewhat forgetful nowdays, I told her I was just like her so we make a great pair. Moms...you just got to love "em, I'm thankful that I still have her.
Enough of the complaining Keneta, you are just your Mom......

Yes, that is true! You have to love them no matter what. I love them best when I live at least 12 hours away!:D

[Sew 'N Sane]

Ya'll better pray for my sanity! My dad and stepmom are coming from Orlando for a visit around the 19th. They want to stay for a few days or "whenever I get tired of them". My stepmom is an original. She is that woman that complains about everything! There has not been once that she goes to a restaurant and the food is not right. My grandmother sent some apples one year as a Christmas gift from some orchard in NH. My grandmother found out later that my stepmom had written a nasty letter about the condition of the apples and called to complain, also! My grandmother was so embarassed, because she knew the owner and they told her about it. She once had some poor bagboy repack all her groceries, because she didn't think he did it right the first time.
My grandmother and step grandfather are coming down the very next week and the weekend in between is when I am having my son's birthday party. I told my husband I might catch a plane to Iraq and hang out with him! You know, he always seems to be gone when my family comes, hmmmm. He was in Afghanistan when my mom came five years ago. She lives in Va Beach, Va. There was also one year when she came to visit and he had to go to Va Beach on TDY. Talk about some good excuses! He leaves the country when in laws are coming. I wish I could. That would be why I live here and they all live in various places. Does anyone else have such a dysfunctional family of their own?
Okay, can you tell I have been home with a toddler all day? Thanks for letting vent.:) I just love ya'll!:D


You can come stay with me! I'll let you stay out in my studio and you can sleep with the fabric and pillow forms. I'll even let you use any of my 3 embroidery machines. In exchange, maybe you could get me cleaned up and organized?? :p

:marchmellow:

[Sew So Happy]

You can come stay with me! I'll let you stay out in my studio and you can sleep with the fabric and pillow forms. I'll even let you use any of my 3 embroidery machines. In exchange, maybe you could get me cleaned up and organized?? :p

:marchmellow:

I would rather clean someone else's mess than my own. As long it was quiet, I wouldn't care where I slept! I would also like to sleep past 6:30, please.

[carmelite]

Isnip snip... her mom - Someone's been in my house stealing things, oh never mind I have a dog and I never go anywhere unless you come over and take me. (snip snip..

hi, this sounds like possible dementia. i'm no healthcare worker but know about this from my mom.

doesn't minimize the hurt or whatever she may cause but is at least a way to understand.


lots more i could say on this about the other part of it, the miserable ones who have to make you like them. topic in full but this is embroidery.

hang in there guys. i'll say a prayer for you. IT STINKS!!!! shuddddder you know the phrase and it is true "Misery loves company".. not just a cliche'

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[Sew 'N Sane]

I would rather clean someone else's mess than my own. As long it was quiet, I wouldn't care where I slept! I would also like to sleep past 6:30, please.

Not a problem. My studio is in an apartment above the garage and you have to go outside to access it. So, you wouldn't be able to hear the morning noise from my kids and you could sleep as late as you want!

Come see me!!!

:marchmellow:

[NJMo]

Oh, please sign me up on your places to stay. I absolutely love kids and don't get to see my nieces and nephews as they are in Missouri and I am in Colorado. My only child, Brian, recently graduated from college and moved back to Missouri to work with his father. So, I am a bit blue, but I have a house at the base of the mountains with a giant deck that hangs out over a golf course fairway with an unobstructed view of the mountains, the entire city of Denver and a local lake. Deer in the yard every day. Very beautiful. No kids, only hubby and a cat. But (and you knew there would be a but...), Brian is getting married this April and my dysfunctional family will be here (including my hateful stepmother), as well as my ex-husband and his new family, my ex-mother-in-law, "friends" that took the ex's side during the divorce, etc. So if you come to stay with me, I will be needing a place to stay in April. :-)

[hardworkfhe]

Pray really, really hard. The poor woman must never be happy or she'll only happy when she makes everyone else miserable. What a terrible way to live.

[Sew So Happy]

Pray really, really hard. The poor woman must never be happy or she'll only happy when she makes everyone else miserable. What a terrible way to live.

Sometimes I think she does like everyone to be miserable like her. You would not even begin to believe some of the stuff she has pulled. They don't have many friends at all. I can literally say I don't know another person as bad as her. It almost seems unreal to me.