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Family just left.... gonna clean up tomorrow.... my house has been in a tornado
Her family left awhile ago. Although it would had been nice to say f**k it and clean up tomorrow we just can't go to bed leaving all the mess so we just spent close to an hour putting away the food, getting the dirty dishes into the dishwasher and still having a sink full of crap ugh!?!

At least the counter and island is nice and neat so waking up tomorrow will not be as painful yay 🙂
 
Her family left awhile ago. Although it would had been nice to say f**k it and clean up tomorrow we just can't go to bed leaving all the mess so we just spent close to an hour putting away the food, getting the dirty dishes into the dishwasher and still having a sink full of crap ugh!?!

At least the counter and island is nice and neat so waking up tomorrow will not be as painful yay 🙂
I got the table cleaned up and the dishes stacked to be done. Sent left overs home with fam, but since only 3 of us I didn't cook much. So not as bad out as I made it. Just stuff displaced
 
Greetings all.

Daedalus here, soon turning 52 and hailing from West Virginia. I'm happily retired and very happily divorced. I'm a father to an amazing pre-teen kidlet that keeps me on my toes. When I came across this topic, it really caught my eye, and I just had to share my thoughts.

I am rather new to Literotica, although not new at all to writing. I will peek in here every so often and catch up. Cheers!
 
Well after this years Thanksgiving dinner I’m about ready to tell my wife and kids they can do it all next year.

So we have a tradition where the kids make pies, with the girls making one pie and the boys making another, but for some reason it was decided they were each making pies. Okay, fine, and I asked them to start on Monday so I wasn’t fighting for space in the kitchen on Wednesday when I was trying to prep. Did they do that? Noooooooo! Plus my wife wanted to make a pumpkin roll and a Rice Krispies treat turkey to bring to todays bigger family gathering.

And then our teenage daughter gets invited for thanksgiving dinner at her friends house that will be at dinner time, so to accommodate that I have to plan for ours to be ready to eat around lunchtime. Which would be fine but our oldest has a job where he works from 4pm to 2am and worked the night before.

So somehow I get most of what I need to do done on Wednesday (which started with me washing a crap ton of dishes from what was done the night before and washing off the counters, after which I made some food to bring to my mom, who just had hip replacement surgery), yesterday I’m up at 7 to get the ovens warmed up, with the ham going in almost immediately followed by the Turkey at 8:30, and then I have to wash even more dishes because I don’t get any help without yelling at the kids. And did I mention I made coffee cake, bacon and eggs for breakfast but the teenagers wouldn’t get up for it?

Somehow I get everything cooked, sliced, plated, etc and on the table, and finally get the oldest awake and he starts bitch if that he doesn’t want turkey for breakfast, and then gripes about how he had a shitty week (he ran out of gas on the freeway and I had to get up and run gas out to him after I was already asleep, then he slipped in some mud coming back from lunch break and decided he was hurt so bad he had to go to urgent care because he has no pain tolerance at all, and then that morning his folding phone wouldn’t open up all the way) so he starts screaming and swearing at us, teenage daughter runs away from the table, wife is in tears, the oldest decides to leave for a whole, not taking his phone with him…

Lovely day altogether, right?
 
OMG that sounds horrible. I am so sorry that it happened to you. I think that you would do well to scale down and do some limit setting and boundaries with whoever needs them. Sounds like reservations would be a great idea. I don't think ungrateful people get to have the benefit of all your hard work.....K
 
We divide up the dishes so that everyone contributes and no one has to do it all. My wife makes dressing. I smoked a turkey and warmed up a precooked ham. My daughter makes mashed potatoes and pies. My son does green beans and yams. Works well and it's relatively easy for everyone.
 
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