Reply #2: Dear Lord, don't show THIS to my mother! [View All]

:rofl:

My house is nowhere near that bad, I sometimes skip a couple weeks between mopping the kitchen floor and the clen laundry is poften trying to emerge and chase me down the hallway like a blob...but the "dirty" factor isn't an issue...

My mom was fuckin Donna Reed, she would be on he hands & knees scrubbing the kitchen floor when I'd come home on a saturday afternoon. In fact, even when she comes over to MY house,(usually to babysit) she never just brings a book to read or relaxes with the kids...she will FIND a project to do (like putting away all my dishes and wiping my counters till they sparkle)
While I appreciate the notion, and also understand that is her own dysfunctions about control and her raleationship with my dad, It is almost upsetting

She says things like "I know I didn't raise you to be like this."
excuuse me? you had no job and your husband was gone drinking most of the time - it was your "therapy"
I am a single mom running a business and trying to finish school while raising 3 kids ho are VERY energetic.

folding the fuckin laundry is LOW on my priorities...

Anyway - it's sad that some folks really DO live in squalor...and that MY mess isn't nearly that bad. (my friends say I have the cleanest "mess" they have ever seen, lol!) Stories like this are too true, and I'm sorry, make me feel a little better.