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WEll, they can have as much pasta and pizzy and Italian food as they want. Plus the food my son takes home. They'll be fat in no time at all.

Spaghetti and ketchup?

My way of not cooking is to simply smother everything with molten red cheddar. Works on pasta, potatoes, bread ....



I really ought to move back out of the family home.

Hope your son copes, and wish you good luck, Bel.

TRiG.

Thank you, TRiG.

I think I'll have to stop suggesting things they still need, and even more important: not buy them for them.

I have just had time to read through the last 50 plus posts. I am relieved that things seem to be settling down.

But - "I'll have to stop suggesting things they still need" and there was an earlier post about 'the washing machine being due to arrive soon'.

I suppose I DO have a washing machine (my niece Aicha - or 'me' when I am in Casa) but I don't think that I have had a mechanical one since the 1970s.

Priorities are odd!

Oh, it means I'll have to do less washing from now on. I'll have lots of less work, come to think of it.
That doesn't mean that I won't have to do the same things I've always done, though. Just that I'll do less of everything.

"I think I'll have to stop suggesting things they still need, and even more important: not buy them for them"

that's the spirit!

i guess it's easier for fathers than mothers to slip out of the parent role and let the kids sail their own sea.

i have to say that my mother was pretty good at it. which is a good thing. taught me to stand on my own in no time

i have seen terrible examples of the opposite

one of the guys i shared house with asked me how much rice he should cook for one person. when the rice caught fire he blamed me for not telling him he should have added water also

true story!

Is it me, or does Swabian Pockets sound like an episode of Star Trek?

When I reached the age of 21 (not eighteen then) my father handed me a paddle and said "You know where the canoe is!"

He would also say - if I rang up and said that I was coming home for the weekend, "This is NOT a hotel. What time?"

At least I knew where I stood! Actually he was right. They lived in a large house (a country rectory) and we all 'kept' our rooms after we left home. We had a tendency to arrive home and pick up where we had left off!

Well done on a smooth transition...

I guess it must feel a little strange, but he is not far away...

When I first moved away it was to College, and I was picking Colleges as far away from home as possible, as I wanted to sample the delights, if that's the right word, of being independent. In the end I had to compromise and settle for Manchester as relatives lived there... beneficially as it turned out.

I didn't go home once in the first term and the first words my Mum said is 'Where have you been?' She meant, 'Why did'nt you come home.'

It did make my eventual move stress-free, unlike subsequent ones!



MMF

My mother always badgers me to come home - presumably so I can renovate the "new" house (which was built in 1820) because nothing gets done when I'm not there.

I couldn't wait to move out, and after I had done, I never looked back. Kept visits to the absolute minimum.
I've always hoped my children would never feel like this, but it wasn't meant to be.

That's not your fault

Thank you.

Just thought you needed a , dear sister

A from you is always nice.

Aww shucks!

Since I moved out when my parents packed up and moved without me , I missed out on all that going home to be fed and get my laundry done that all my friends had.

Bel, I'm glad you'll have maybe 1/3 less work to do. I do hope that once he's settled in his new place, your son will be so nice to his mom that all you'll remember is how much you miss having him around, and not all of the things that drove you nuts.

New washer? I'm shopping around for one of those right now.

That's about what happened to me, PC, but they're "only" 300km away.

Haven't visited my father since I started Uni and I'm glad for every week where he doesn't phone.

He was here half an hour or so ago. Went striaght for the fresh and the .


He told me that it felt really strange to wake up in an unfamiliar, empty flat with no chairs.

Mala, mine took off just before I graduated high school. I've seen them a few times since, but haven't seen my mom since around 2001 or so.

Did he drink up all your , Bel?

They'll get some chairs eventually.