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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 442613" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Well...........</p><p></p><p>My Mom tends to "drop in" because she can only travel here when she has someone to drive her. So.....that said.......she expects our lives to stop when she gets here.......and she only likes to eat out, which honestly husband and I can't afford and while easy child can, often Nichole can't. So that always made me hold my breath. Then she'd offer to pay which made me feel bad. Once in a great while I've managed to get a good meal cooked before the whole let's eat out thing starts so I don't have to worry about it. She has learned to deal with people can't just up and get time off to please her. It's not like they don't want to see her, but work is work, school is school.</p><p></p><p>I stopped visiting back home for various reasons. One was even though we had to plan it way ahead of time due to cost and distance.......If mom had something she wanted to do she went ahead and did it. Plus she had a thing about dragging us to visit every single relative I have........when I can't stand most of them, and which is not fun when you've just spent 10hrs in a car. And again with the whole let's eat out thing. So instead of visiting and enjoying each other, you felt like you were running a marathon the entire time. And we stopped because other than mom no one ever came to visit us. </p><p></p><p>The whole thing about the eating out, well times are tough right now, maybe they can't afford it. And the thing with the job, you might have just been warned that work is work and too important to not show up just because family is visiting, especially with the current economy. </p><p></p><p>Just try to enjoy the time you have together as best as possible.</p><p></p><p>Hugs</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 442613, member: 84"] Well........... My Mom tends to "drop in" because she can only travel here when she has someone to drive her. So.....that said.......she expects our lives to stop when she gets here.......and she only likes to eat out, which honestly husband and I can't afford and while easy child can, often Nichole can't. So that always made me hold my breath. Then she'd offer to pay which made me feel bad. Once in a great while I've managed to get a good meal cooked before the whole let's eat out thing starts so I don't have to worry about it. She has learned to deal with people can't just up and get time off to please her. It's not like they don't want to see her, but work is work, school is school. I stopped visiting back home for various reasons. One was even though we had to plan it way ahead of time due to cost and distance.......If mom had something she wanted to do she went ahead and did it. Plus she had a thing about dragging us to visit every single relative I have........when I can't stand most of them, and which is not fun when you've just spent 10hrs in a car. And again with the whole let's eat out thing. So instead of visiting and enjoying each other, you felt like you were running a marathon the entire time. And we stopped because other than mom no one ever came to visit us. The whole thing about the eating out, well times are tough right now, maybe they can't afford it. And the thing with the job, you might have just been warned that work is work and too important to not show up just because family is visiting, especially with the current economy. Just try to enjoy the time you have together as best as possible. Hugs [/QUOTE]
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