Re : Boomerang Kids (10)

Well just when you think it is plain sailing - somebody throws you a curve ball.

My dear daughter who moved out just under a year ago, is moving back home - just for a few weeks, so I am told

She was sharing a house with a couple of her girlfriends, one is a univ student with a part time job and is struggling to keep up withe bills etc. so they have had to give it up.

My daughter has booked a couple of weeks in Thailand beginning of July and doesn't want to rush into anything - then have to leave it to go away.

I am getting stuff together for a garage sale that I will have in the coming weeks, she will have to put a lot of stuff in storage until she gets organised.

And I was just thinking of giving her brother a not so gentle push nearer to the door - his company has upped sticks and moved to Singapore!! Damn! He is looking for a job nearer to home, there are jobs in Brisbane but it is a 1 hr commute either by train and by the M1 is maniac traffic at rush hour.

So I am feeling a little stressed and my plans have been pushed to one side again - but on the positive side, I will be clearing out some rubbish that is hanging around and I have got 10 days off work and got a few good things planned for my time off.

Worse things could happen I suppose?

I hear you Newlife. My friends tell me they come back and I just got all mine out of my house. I sold all their beds though, so hopefully that was a big enough hint that there is no revolving door here.

I didn't even get chance to change the locks or put the "For Sale" sign up outside the house!!!

When My last one left ... I upped stumps and runaway up to here from Melbourne whilst the getting was good ..

When my last one left school and got a job... I upped stumps and ran away to Melbourne whilst the getting was good.

Okay, it wasn't as good as I thought. But my daughter had similar thoughts about Sydney and moved down here to get away from the place.

A bit after my divorce but before final property settlement, I did meet a very nice lady and things were going very strong. The drawnout property settlement did cause a lot of anxiety on my part but I managed, sort of. Not long after the final property settlement, my daughter asked if she and her fiance could move in so they could save for their wedding. While I would have loved to have paid for it, the leaches (lawyers and ex #2 had bled me dry) and it was a good way to help them.

But the lady friend said "I should have consulted her first." We were not living together "so what's the problem?" Wrong answer. Okay, my thought was that maybe I could move in with her until they got themselves sorted. Wrong thought. Her daughter decided it was also a good time to split from her long standing live together boyfriend and moved back home. With the dog she wanted while they were together but "I don't want him keep it." And she didn't really want it either but...

So 6 months later, with me stressing with my new job (which I have just quit ), things got to a head where she said that my daughter had ruined our relationship. To me, it was a lot of stuff that was happening at the time.

I do think that a lot of stuff I did may have been wrong but "it did seem a good idea at the time." I may be a bit spontaneous at times (like going to see a 4wd bus this Friday up in NSW) but also sometimes think about what I am about to do. Sometimes.

But kids moving back? Sell the house, find a 1-bedroom place and enjoy life. Oddly enough, my daughter keeps telling me that my place is too big for me.

Obviously, she does not want to move back in. Not sure if we could manage under the one roof.

My son-in-law borrowed the car and trailer last Friday. He got back late in the day and the daughter called in for a cuppa with us. She was checking out the room available for "her" storage.

Damn need a smaller place.

Today, I thought I would let my hair down and went and got it cut. Enough excitement for 1 week.