Quiet

It is Thursday morning and everyone has left the house aahhh quiet. I love my mother but sometimes she just needs to chill. She managed to sleep in until 9:00 am but then she was like well we should eat dinner at lunch time so now we have to rush to make dinner. I could have easily put together the cheesy potato dish that we were having, it is quite simple, in fact I offered too, but she mans her kitchen like I'm one of the slow kids she teaches at school. Ok just spray the pan and bring the ingredients. If she would of let me do it she could of left earlier w/ my grandparents and Dad to go run errands. She just has to do every little thing her way, it is crazy. Yesterday she was still at work and the house had such a relaxed atmosphere, this morning she's all in a hurry and has a mental list that she has sooo much to do. I know that she does a lot of planning for having everyone home, and it isn't easy when you have company to make fabulous meals everynight, and she always does. But, seeing how my dad and I have offered to help, if she would just tell us the plan then I would gladly get some of it done for her. In fact I would have made dinner last night had I known the plan! But if you use the wrong ingredients and mess up her plan then you catch heck. I feel like I can never win! In fact she says I was a difficult child to communicate with because I didn't just say what was on my mind. I think it was because I could either be vocal about it and pushy, say what I was thinking, ending up offending her, OR I could just keep my mouth shut and do what she said and be done w/ it. I guess I learned to do and be quiet. Should I have said, Mom stop, I can do this get out of the kitchen! Maybe- but it is like that w/ everything and then she is like Fine! (all huffy like) Does anyone else's mom act like this? What do you do? Damned if you do and damned if you don't!

She is such a caring mom and always so giving that i feel bad about writing this. I know that in some way it is just because she raised 5 of us and had to keep track of so many things that she is like this. But life doesn't have to be so rush rush! Especially since there are only two of us home plus the grandparents. I mean dinner is only 8 tonight (w/ the other grandma and sister's bf) which is only 1 more than the old normal, and a far cry from the 14 it could be! Oh of course our dishwasher broke and they can't come till Saturday to fix it so that added some drama. On top of that our coffee pot quit too. Luckily they had a spare coffee pot in storage from one of my sisters, so everyone still got their caffine fix.

Well that is enough griping for one day. I know now that know everything is in the oven- maybe things will calm down around here and we can to the fun stuff like family poker! :)