How to Survive Life in the Suburbs

Are You Enjoying Yourself – A Summer Time Rant

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Dear Family,

I know it’s summer.  I get it, we are in vacation mode.  But I have to tell you, even though I love you more than life itself, you all are driving me to the brink of insanity.  Want to help a Mama out?  Here’s a few tips to help us all survive the summer and come out the other end…still speaking.

  1. If you use a glass, return to the kitchen.
  2. After you have returned it to the kitchen, put it in the damn dishwasher.  It’s that magic machine that does the dishes.
  3. If you happen to notice the dishes in said dishwasher are clean, don’t just remark “They’re clean.” plunk that glass down on the counter and walk away.  Empty the damn dishwasher.
  4. Use the last of the toilet paper?  Re-filll the roll.
  5. Eat the last granola bar?  Recycle the box.
  6. Have friends over for a swim and use every single towel in the house?  For the love of all that is holy don’t leave those wet towels on your bedroom floor for a week.  Please, just put them in the laundry room.  Maybe even consider, oh I don’t know, washing them.  Sigh.

I don’t really care if you make your bed, stay up late, fill the house with friends, sleep in, eat me out of house and home.  But for the love of pete please remember I’m your Mama ….not your maid.

Thanks.

Love Mom

    • Comments

    1. I guess it was different for me and probably my generation but my mother was a single mother in the 70’s. She went to school and cleaned houses for extra money so we could have all the basics and once in a while a treat. So when I was 6 and on I was taught how to help and when I was 10 I started doing the laundry cleaning the bathroom vacuuming dusting etc. I know kids get away with way to much today but I never felt like it was too much because I was raised to help. I have a friend that came from Colombia and she said the first thing she noticed when she came here is that “kids felt “entitled to everything and that they didn’t have to work for it and she wasn’t going to let that happen to her kids” They were going to help out and appreciate everything their parents gave them and she did it and she has the most well rounded kids I’ve seen. I guess my point is it should be a give and take.

    2. I can so relate to this! One of the things I hate the most, which I just spent way too much time doing, is when they bring clean clothes that they haven’t worn or heck even put away in their drawers from the last time I washed them, back to the laundry room to be washed…UGH!

    6. AMEN!!!!!! I think we can all relate, except for the dishwasher part b/c I’m the dishwasher, oh hubby helps too but we can relate to all the above 🙂

    8. I can so relate to this. Both of my adult kids are here. I was in Florida for 18 days visiting my dad and family. The same dish towels were in the kitchen. You would like to think that they washed them and put them back out but NO, that didn’t happen! I could go on and on……

    9. So true. I loved it when my daughter decided to do laundry. She would put a load in the washer and spread the rest on piles on the floor. When she finally went to get the first load out to put in the dryer she would find it all washed, dried and folded and make a comment on the magic of the washing machine.

    10. Maybe all families are the same – anyone who is not mom doesn’t seem to know how to put a dish in the dishwasher, put garbage in the garbage can or put recycling in the recycle bin.

    11. Ha ha…I love this! Better yet – it’s only water – HANG the towels to dry because you’re just going to go back in the pool in a couple hours!

    12. Love it, when my girls were still home I went through the same bull crap, we all would like some help and you nailed it, we are not your maid!!!

    13. lol….love it! Great not & hopefully it may get the point across! Have a fun summer!