Most people might suppose that the single worst area of a Christmas gathering is seeing most people leave and go home.
I do miss our children when they leave because I guess that I won’t be seeing several of them for another full year.
But then I look around in addition to I see all of the mess that is left behind. Dusting, sweeping, mopping in addition to doing all of the dishes is the least of our troubles. It is the younger teenagers who sneak food back into the playroom in addition to lose it, that worries me more. One year, it took me a week of searching for an off smell in the room, that had me quite stymied. I never expected to find a rotten piece of chicken stuck into the corner of the sofa. I won’t guess if I was more concerned over the yellow chicken or the fact that I also found food in the air vents. Someone had put the ham sandwich they didn’t like down the air vent. I don’t suppose that any of them would do something like this, but I had proof. I could only hope that the next year they would be more grown up in addition to I wouldn’t have an air vent full of sandwiches. I was totally wrong about the growing up because the following year, I once again had an air vent with food stuffed in it, but it was potato salad instead of a sandwich. I confronted all of them in addition to informed them that if I find a single more piece of food in the playroom, I was going to bolt the door in addition to they would have to spend the entire time with the adults. I didn’t find any old food in the air vent this year. It was just left in the middle of the floor. The playroom is now banned from gathering goers.