Anonymous wrote:Unless your small children are infants they do not need to be fed around the clock, every few hours. Of course the kitchen is closed! Your mom will be treating you all to a fabulous bbq dinner soon. Why you would need to fill up on gross gas station food is beyond me.

OMG, I recognize you. You're the one who opens her kitchen once a day and believes that people shouldn't be hungry because you fed them a "delicious" meal 10 hours ago.

Anonymous wrote:My mom has suddenly started saying sail-da and SAL-sha instead of salsa.

But she brought deviled eggs! Win!

LOL things like this turn into kooky inside jokes that will stay with you for years to come

My mom has suddenly started saying sail-da and SAL-sha instead of salsa.

But she brought deviled eggs! Win!

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Anonymous wrote:I'll play!

My ILs are great and it's truly a pleasure to visit them, especially as it saves me from making dinner for multiple nights.

My tiny vent...they push their coffee table seriously 1/4 inch from the couch. So you have to get on the couch from the side, lift the coffee table up with your leg, scoot in to sit in the middle of the couch if others are around, and put it back down. LOL...why?!

Good lord, you have a mouth. Just say, "may I move this so it is easier to sit on couch?". God gave you a brain, USE IT!

Wow, why are you so worked up?

Anyway, for whatever reason, they don't like it to be moved. They all have the "lift-scoot-lower with one leg" move down pat. It's just a quirky thing. I just don't get why it is that way, but I don't, like, refuse to visit or anything.

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Anonymous wrote:Unless your small children are infants they do not need to be fed around the clock, every few hours. Of course the kitchen is closed! Your mom will be treating you all to a fabulous bbq dinner soon. Why you would need to fill up on gross gas station food is beyond me.

Young kids can’t go from 7 am until 4 pm! Do you have little kids? I’m not for the snacking all the time but this is crazy.

This is why there is a serious obesity epidemic. Young children do not need to eat greasy convenience food. If they are hungry between meals they should get an apple out of the fruit bowl, sit on the front doorstep and have a nice, healthy, nutritious snack. They do not need a bacon, nacho cheese, funion burger.

Well they could do that if MIL hadn't "closed the kitchen" from breakfast til 4pm. It is unreasonable to expect adults and children to go from 7am to 4pm without lunch.

+1. It can be cheese and crackers, or yogurt and fruit, but SOMETHING. Eat on paper plates for no mess if you have to. But if you make your guests (especially those with children) go a full 8 hours with no access to food in your home, you are a terrible host. Period.

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Anonymous wrote:Unless your small children are infants they do not need to be fed around the clock, every few hours. Of course the kitchen is closed! Your mom will be treating you all to a fabulous bbq dinner soon. Why you would need to fill up on gross gas station food is beyond me.

Young kids can’t go from 7 am until 4 pm! Do you have little kids? I’m not for the snacking all the time but this is crazy.

This is why there is a serious obesity epidemic. Young children do not need to eat greasy convenience food. If they are hungry between meals they should get an apple out of the fruit bowl, sit on the front doorstep and have a nice, healthy, nutritious snack. They do not need a bacon, nacho cheese, funion burger.

Well they could do that if MIL hadn't "closed the kitchen" from breakfast til 4pm. It is unreasonable to expect adults and children to go from 7am to 4pm without lunch.

We're having a good time! Best part is not cooking, I agree with that assessment. It's also great to get out of town, and the weather has been beautiful.

Worst part is my MIL seriously hovers over us. I mean, I honestly cannot spoon jelly onto toast without her directly over my shoulder, asking me if I want a different kind of jellyr or a nut butter or maybe honey instead. I think it's anxiety or something, and I try to have grace and patience, but it is honestly damn annoying that she has to be *right there* when I make food or move a muscle.

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Anonymous wrote:Unless your small children are infants they do not need to be fed around the clock, every few hours. Of course the kitchen is closed! Your mom will be treating you all to a fabulous bbq dinner soon. Why you would need to fill up on gross gas station food is beyond me.

Young kids can’t go from 7 am until 4 pm! Do you have little kids? I’m not for the snacking all the time but this is crazy.

This is why there is a serious obesity epidemic. Young children do not need to eat greasy convenience food. If they are hungry between meals they should get an apple out of the fruit bowl, sit on the front doorstep and have a nice, healthy, nutritious snack. They do not need a bacon, nacho cheese, funion burger.

Right. A turkey sandwich at Panera is going to contribute to the obesity epidemic.

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Anonymous wrote:Unless your small children are infants they do not need to be fed around the clock, every few hours. Of course the kitchen is closed! Your mom will be treating you all to a fabulous bbq dinner soon. Why you would need to fill up on gross gas station food is beyond me.

Young kids can’t go from 7 am until 4 pm! Do you have little kids? I’m not for the snacking all the time but this is crazy.

This is why there is a serious obesity epidemic. Young children do not need to eat greasy convenience food. If they are hungry between meals they should get an apple out of the fruit bowl, sit on the front doorstep and have a nice, healthy, nutritious snack. They do not need a bacon, nacho cheese, funion burger.

Keep trying, babe. I'm 5'8" and weigh 145. I run every day. My kids are both big swimmers and are active at play. Those of us who are *active* need regular meals at regular meal times. My kids are bean poles, by the way. Sorry that you have family members who are obese or struggle with weight yourself, as your projections and vitriol lead me to believe.

We ate a nice meal at Panera and will eat a NORMAL amount of food later; we don't do the two plates of food and two plates of pie thing that a lot of people do at BBQs and other special occasions.

Do you get it--the kitchen is CLOSED, as in no apple from the fruit bowl. My mom seriously closes the kitchen--no small cubes of cheese to go alongside celery for a snack, which is what we would do when meal times get thrown off by holiday schedules at home if we were, say, going to my aunt's house for a holiday meal at an odd time.

My mom has every right to close her kitchen. She does not have the right to complain and try to keep us home when we get in our own car and take our own kids out for a decent meal.

Maybe you're the gorge-r type who goes back for seconds and even thirds at Thanksgiving or holiday BBQs or what have you. We don't eat like that. People who "fill up" at buffets gross me out. Sounds like you're the type.

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Anonymous wrote:Unless your small children are infants they do not need to be fed around the clock, every few hours. Of course the kitchen is closed! Your mom will be treating you all to a fabulous bbq dinner soon. Why you would need to fill up on gross gas station food is beyond me.

Young kids can’t go from 7 am until 4 pm! Do you have little kids? I’m not for the snacking all the time but this is crazy.

This is why there is a serious obesity epidemic. Young children do not need to eat greasy convenience food. If they are hungry between meals they should get an apple out of the fruit bowl, sit on the front doorstep and have a nice, healthy, nutritious snack. They do not need a bacon, nacho cheese, funion burger.

An apple won’t cut it for my kids. Sorry, it’s not unreasonable to need a meal during an eight hour period. Eating something a little unhealthy is better than restricting meals completely. It’s only one day.

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Anonymous wrote:I'll play!

My ILs are great and it's truly a pleasure to visit them, especially as it saves me from making dinner for multiple nights.

My tiny vent...they push their coffee table seriously 1/4 inch from the couch. So you have to get on the couch from the side, lift the coffee table up with your leg, scoot in to sit in the middle of the couch if others are around, and put it back down. LOL...why?!

Good lord, you have a mouth. Just say, "may I move this so it is easier to sit on couch?". God gave you a brain, USE IT!

My parents have a similar weird thing with furniture. I ask them if we can push it out so it’s easier to maneuver around, they say sure and then push it back to where it was right away. Sometimes difficult/weird family problems are not as simply solved as you think. That’s why venting to get it out is important to let off steam over the absurdity of the situation.

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Anonymous wrote:Unless your small children are infants they do not need to be fed around the clock, every few hours. Of course the kitchen is closed! Your mom will be treating you all to a fabulous bbq dinner soon. Why you would need to fill up on gross gas station food is beyond me.

Young kids can’t go from 7 am until 4 pm! Do you have little kids? I’m not for the snacking all the time but this is crazy.

This is why there is a serious obesity epidemic. Young children do not need to eat greasy convenience food. If they are hungry between meals they should get an apple out of the fruit bowl, sit on the front doorstep and have a nice, healthy, nutritious snack. They do not need a bacon, nacho cheese, funion burger.

Project much? She said Panera.
Kitchen is closed to snacks.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unless your small children are infants they do not need to be fed around the clock, every few hours. Of course the kitchen is closed! Your mom will be treating you all to a fabulous bbq dinner soon. Why you would need to fill up on gross gas station food is beyond me.

Young kids can’t go from 7 am until 4 pm! Do you have little kids? I’m not for the snacking all the time but this is crazy.

This is why there is a serious obesity epidemic. Young children do not need to eat greasy convenience food. If they are hungry between meals they should get an apple out of the fruit bowl, sit on the front doorstep and have a nice, healthy, nutritious snack. They do not need a bacon, nacho cheese, funion burger.

Do you seriously think small children should go from 7AM to 4PM with only an apple in between? Do you not feed your children lunch?

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Anonymous wrote:Unless your small children are infants they do not need to be fed around the clock, every few hours. Of course the kitchen is closed! Your mom will be treating you all to a fabulous bbq dinner soon. Why you would need to fill up on gross gas station food is beyond me.

Young kids can’t go from 7 am until 4 pm! Do you have little kids? I’m not for the snacking all the time but this is crazy.

This is why there is a serious obesity epidemic. Young children do not need to eat greasy convenience food. If they are hungry between meals they should get an apple out of the fruit bowl, sit on the front doorstep and have a nice, healthy, nutritious snack. They do not need a bacon, nacho cheese, funion burger.

Everyone’s at my place since last night. So far, so good!

My sister is fully checked out on her phone, BIL too, as I try to get everything ready and keep their kids out from underfoot. But mostly, cousins playing is nice.