[Kizzy]

your son is 17...
you decide he has to make his own sandwich for college, you realise he doesn't expect ALL women to make him a sandwich ...just you.

What do you do? I'm considering adoption.

[Kate!]

My Josh tries this, he wants me to make his toast. I say, there's the toaster, off you go.

[smudgie]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

your son is 17...
you decide he has to make his own sandwich for college, you realise he doesn't expect ALL women to make him a sandwich ...just you.

What do you do? I'm considering adoption.

Well Kizzy, at 17 he should be making all his own lunches for college.
In fact, he should be getting up, making you a cuppa and making you your lunch before he goes to college





Well, we can all dream

[Niamh.]

My son is 9 and he's my baby, I could imagine still making his sandwiches when he's 17

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

My son is 9 and he's my baby, I could imagine still making his sandwiches when he's 17

and 29!!!

Not to put a downer on things but my friend lost her son in a car accident in January, so it kinda put things in perspective. On my work days my eldest has to fend for himself, if I am home then I tend to do stuff for him because he has a long day of lessons ahead of him and if I can do something for him before he heads out the door then I do it and I can kick back once he is gone

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

and 29!!!

Not to put a downer on things but my friend lost her son in a car accident in January, so it kinda put things in perspective. On my work days my eldest has to fend for himself, if I am home then I tend to do stuff for him because he has a long day of lessons ahead of him and if I can do something for him before he head out the door then I do it and I can kick back once he is gone

Must be the Irish mammy syndrome Cherie

[Crimson Dynamo]

They look after you for the last years of your life when you are a basket case so a sandwich now and then is a good investment

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Must be the Irish mammy syndrome Cherie

Definately

[Kizzy]

Well thats all well and good, maybe Irish mammies get more appreciation?
It's maybe not an issue of not wanting to do it, but rather that are they respectful of the fact you are doing it.

[Josy]

Give him some lunch money that way it's a win win, you get to be lazy and he gets his lunch without making it himself.

[Kizzy]

Are you being deliberately obtuse josy? It's nothing to do with laziness or as simplistic as throwing money at him. It's a question of attitude.

[Josy]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Are you being deliberately obtuse josy? It's nothing to do with laziness or as simplistic as throwing money at him. It's a question of attitude.

It was a joke Kizzy

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Well thats all well and good, maybe Irish mammies get more appreciation?
It's maybe not an issue of not wanting to do it, but rather that are they respectful of the fact you are doing it.

The only appreciation i need is the smile on his lovely little face Kizzy

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

The only appreciation i need is the smile on his lovely little face Kizzy

yeah... well wait till that smile turns to a sneer and you can't reach his 'lovely' face to slap it.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Josy

It was a joke Kizzy

It was a **** joke

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

yeah... well wait till that smile turns to a sneer and you can't reach his 'lovely' face to slap it.

Not my little angel kizzy

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Not my little angel kizzy

Yeah yeah... I thought that

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Yeah yeah... I thought that

kids have memories like gold fish for all that we do for them, only changes when you have promised them something and then they never forget.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Well thats all well and good, maybe Irish mammies get more appreciation?
It's maybe not an issue of not wanting to do it, but rather that are they respectful of the fact you are doing it.

Oh! I didn't realise there was an attitude problem involved with this sandwich, in that case I would smother Irish Mammy and turn into English Mammy and tell him to do it himself until he learned to appreciate when I do it. Got the best of both worlds me...

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

kids have memories like gold fish for all that we do for them, only changes when you have promised them something and then they never forget.

My youngest son is really good at that...Mom remember when you told me that you would "insert something that involves spending money on him" 5 months, 2 weeks and 3 days ago.

Usual answer No I can't recall.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Oh! I didn't realise there was an attitude problem involved with this sandwich, in that case I would smother Irish Mammy and turn into English Mammy and tell him to do it himself until he learned to appreciate when I do it. Got the best of both worlds me...

I'm morphing from English mammy to 1950s mammy

[Lee.]

Sandwiches definitely taste better when someone else makes them.