Nine things you miss when they go away....

Lots of parents will be sending their offspring off to university soon. I've been there, done that and got the tee shirt.

This is what I missed when they were away:

Daughter

• being told when something I wore did not suit me or that I looked okay in something - an honest opinion.



• her friends visiting.
  
  
• listening to her point of view and realising she could possibly be right



• the occasions she took over the kitchen and cooked for us

Son

• the life went out of the house ( he was the last to leave)!


• his awful music


• his friends


• his humour


• listening to his point of view and realising he could possibly be right!
  

The advantages were:

• You don't have to pick wet towels off the bathroom floor


• No one spends hours in the bathroom


• You don't have to listen to pulsating music


• You don't get told to "Get a life.."


• No one rolls their eyes up to the ceiling when you point out the differences between your youth and theirs!


• You don't know they are out and haven't arrived home yet so you don't lie awake listening for them to come home!

The other thing we found was that items used to disappear from our kitchen and end up in theirs! We put together a students' bargain set to start them off and this could maybe mean you can still open a tin when you need to!