matriarch
Rotund retiree
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- May 25, 2003
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Black Tulip said:Morning Mat, Hai DM,
It's already sizzling over here. 10.52 AM. Sipping my coffee and deciding what really needs to be done. LOL
Very, very nice. I noticed before Mat, you're my kind of housekeeper. My excuse always was a lack of time. Single parent with a job and all.
I think nobody believes that anymore.
Sorry, you two, it's too early to be funny. Besides, I'm lousy at telling jokes. I prefer to enjoy them.
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Morning BT. Guess you're getting the same weather as us. Way too hot for me. I'm staying out of it until the evening.
Housework? Why bother, as soon as you've done it, it only needs doing again, save your energy for something else more important and more fun.
My excuse always was, I hate doing it, so I won't.
Rules in my house:
1.Your clothes. You wear them, you wash them. (both sons were introduced to the workings of the washing machine at the age of 16, and told 'over to you'. From now on, you do your own. After they ran out of clothes they realised I wasn't funning.
2. Your food: I will cook one meal. You don't like what I cook, the kitchen's all your's providing you don't burn it down. They are happily, now both very good cooks. I am happy to eat a meal cooked by either of them, at age 24 and 28. Both of them still call me to remind them how to make such and such a sauce, or the batter for yorkshire pudding, pancakes. A constant source of amusement at work, when my colleagues hear me dictating a recipe into the phone for one or other of them. Couple of years ago I left them both to cook Christmas Dinner while I spent my day in a homeless centre, with friends, cooking a meal for them. It was the best Christmas ever.
3. Your Room: I did not sleep in your bed. You make it, you change the linen. I did not leave your clothes all over the floor, or allow dust to cover your precious weights or play station. You clean and tidy.
I know. I'm a bitch. But they love me.
Mat



