Subtitle: Reasons To Be Happy When Your College Daughter's Month Long Break Is Over
1. No one to tell you they are going to Starbucks, Panera, or Chipotle with their BFF every single freakin' day.
2. No one to ask you what's for dinner or to tell you there's nothing to eat around here.
3. No one to tell you how hard 'Anatomy & Physiology' was last semester for the 10,000th time.
4. No more Beyonce or Taylor Swift on your car radio.
5. No one to complain to you about the lack of fresh berries in the college dining hall.
6. No one to take long, hot showers in your bathroom that leave so much condensation that the exhaust fan begins to drip.
7. No one to apologize for the 100th time for sliding into a curb on black ice and getting a flat tire and ruining the wheel on the car.
8. No one asking you if the roads are going to be bad the day she has to return to school because she's now become paranoid about driving in the snow.
9. No one using the washer/dryer when you start to do the other family members' 10 loads of laundry.
10. No one to censor your dirty talk from because she's lying down on the couch in the family room and you don't see her and/or forget that she lives here again.
11. No one on their laptop in the bedroom next to yours on a Friday night at 10 pm when you just wanna make some noize with your husband.
12. No more thinking up creative sarcastic responses to the perpetual question, "So Mom, what are we going to do today?"
13. No more MTV 'Made' and 'True Life' marathons!
14. No more tripping over all the piles of crap she brought home.
Yup, we're going to miss her!
When my sister comes home with her family, she STILL asks our Mom (or calls me) and asks "So, what are we going to do todya?!" She's almost 38 years old. I hope your daughter grows out of that before she has her own family and comes to your house!
ReplyDeleteLOL.. I found this hilarious! It's good to see it from the mother of a grown daughter's point of view. Everytime I visit my mom it's like we have nothing to really talk about and it seems like she can't wait till we leave. Maybe my wanting to chat with her late in the night, while she would rather be "making noise"with my dad irritates her. ( I think I just threw up a little in my mouth!!)
ReplyDeleteSuddenly, I am flashing back to my first Christmas break from college. . . I walked in the door with all my dirty laundry in a bag, and said (and I quote), "Hi, mom; here's my laundry. What's for dinner?" And something about how tired I was, and where was my bed. . .
ReplyDeleteLooking back, I'm a little impressed that she didn't just kick me right back out to the curb. . .
Ya know, I was gonna post about Oddkin being home for the Holidays between semesters but maybe I'll leave it alone.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't want anyone to be jealous or anything!
All this fun stuff I have to look forward to! Funny, my parents put me to work when I came home. I was home, so I could do laundry, the dishes, etc. Hell, I ended up getting a job over the holidays just to get out of the house! (the money didn't hurt either.)
ReplyDeletelol...once again you give me glimpses to of my not too distant future...
ReplyDeleteBut you know you will.
ReplyDeleteMy older son does the what's for dinner thing and also hogs the bathroom with his long, long showers. Argh.
FADKOG - It amazes me how they seem to think we are chock full of exciting plans. She lived here long enough to know - we never do anything!
ReplyDeleteJody - I just threw up too! I will do a follow-up post on my trying to have another sex talk with her.
Desmond - OH! I forgot about the tiredness. She was exhausted the entire first week. All that high level college thinking wore her out.
Xavier - Not everyone's children can be perfect! She's actually a great kid, but the constant companion thing would wear me thin, no matter who it was.
Russ - I too was gainfully employeed my entire college years. I'm positive I was never annoying to my parents :-)
ReplyDeleteLime - Once again, I look forward to reliving it through you next year.
Citizen - I miss her already. She e-mailed that she saved us a ton of money by purchasing all used books - WOOT!
Ahhhh....but still good times, regardless, right?
ReplyDeleteMakes me wonder what my parents were thinking when I was home from college. If I remember correctly, I spent a lot of time over at friends (or girlfriends) houses when I was in town.
ReplyDeleteAs for #11, now I'm happy that my parents have a large house and when my wife and I are there, the room we sleep in is far away from theirs.
In another couple of years, I'm sure you'll long for the loads of laundry and the MTV True Life marathons. Well, maybe. :-)
Hmm. If I could just be SURE Eldest is going to leave, then I might be ok with her coming back occasionally. Last night she asked me if I was going to charge her rent to live with us after high school.
ReplyDeleteNot a bad idea, eh? Course then I'd be paying myself but still...I must work on how to make this work.
Awwww... Cocotte, it really *is* a crime that there's no fresh berries. A little bit of sympathy for the wee students sludging off to class all berriless and lacking fresh stuff would be in order. Doncha think?
ReplyDelete:) And remember, what doesn't kill you... Is toying with you.
Thank you, thank you. I am going to print this out and leave is somewhere that my oldest college child will find it. Maybe, just maybe she'll get the hint.
ReplyDeleteEither that or she'll make a paper airplane out of it and throw it into my bedroom...
Mama - ALWAYS good times when she's home.
ReplyDeleteFTN - I can't imagine that YOU were ever anything but sheer joy to have around the house.
Laggin - What are her plans post-graduation?
Flutter - I knew someone would see the humor of the whole fresh berry business.
Mike - Yet another reason to keep the bedroom door LOCKED!
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