I really need to rant and get this off my chest. 
I had houseguests for a week. The wife is a friend of ours, and we've kept in contact through the last 15 years. Last time we saw them was 6 years ago, when we stayed with them for a week. This time she finally took up our offer and came up to stay for the 4th of July celebrations our town has. OMG, I don't have a lot in common with her now. Her religious beliefs are different than mine, and I didn't want to bog down the week with discussions about old testament vs new. Her husband is a very nice man, but her children are horrible! 
She has two girls, ten year old and 8 year old. Last time I saw them they were very small annoying girls. They are now larger annoying girls. The 8 year old was the worst. She has speech issues, so half the time, I wasn't sure what she was saying, she kept trying to steal things and hide them. She decided she was in love with my 13 year old son, and would wrap herself around his legs, constantly trying to hug him. He tried to hide in his room from her. She would whine and cry at the drop of a pin if she didn't get her way. Kept stealing the remote for the tv so she could blow our eardrums off. Kept chasing my dogs and trying to pick them up the wrong way or pet them to dust. Oh and by the way, I think she's got mental development issues because she would act like she was two, or at best at horrible 5 year old. Kept trying to open the ammo safe, pushed the adults out of her way when she wanted to get somewhere, wrote an obscene note to my son 8-o, and kept insisting she go everywhere he went. She did not eat much in the way of healthy food, mostly milk was her diet. She left cherry pits all around my house! The ten year old was behaving like an 8 year old, also chasing my son around, she kept stealing his cell phone, and barging into his room also. She broke the door frame trying to get in when he retaliated against her stealing his phone by hiding her stuffed animal . Neither bathed the whole time they were here. 8-oThey left my walls dirty from fireworks, drinks and general dirt. One of them smeared ink on the guest towels, and they stained the tub of my washing machine with that ink, (hubby wet sanded it out before I found out) cracked a tile on my kitchen counter, left water balloon on my sofa, broke a water balloon on my treadmill, and had a fit when I got mad and threw one of the balloons on the porch. She never apologized for breaking my son's door, in fact she realized what she did, then ran to the guest room and locked herself in. The 8 year old ran down my stairs to tell her mother! They were totally beside themselves to be in a two story house and my staircase was swung on and smeared up and down the whole visit. She even tried to climb the walls! The 8 year old got into my sewing supplies (Damn she didn't kill herself with the sewing pins) Neither parent were firm enough with their children. I realize that everyone has a different parenting style, but damn did you have to damage every level of the house? I think if I even mention having them come back for another visit my house would fall down around my ears in protest. My son believes just mentioning the younger girl's name makes my dogs shiver in fear. 8-o At first I was willing to have them stay for 10 days, hubby put the kibosh on that, and said make it a week- 7 days. Sheesh 7 days was too much for us! They expect us to come out and visit them next year. I think it will take us another 6 years to get over this last visit. Hubby was vaping along with me. We used up a 30ml bottle of TW's low strength vanilla in a week. Constantly vaping, good thing we had plenty of PCCs, batts, and chargers. I'm really dumbfounded by how poorly they treated my home. My son was ready to run away at one point. He was so upset by those girls constantly harassing him. We had to give him a laptop and made sure his door lock worked so he could get some time away from them, and everytime there was a noise from upstairs, both girls looked at the staircase for him to come down. It was horrible. They even tried to latch on to the neighbor girl. She wasn't prepared for how immature they behaved. She thought the 8 year old was 5 by the way she played with her 2 year old brother. I was so disappointed by how this friend and her children behaved, really poor houseguests. We just refinished our front porch and we have to scrub the soot stains off the floorboards they left. There were many times, we wanted to yell at the girls or boot them out. 
We even joked that our son was probably ready to start vaping because of those girls. They were loud obnoxious and their mother let them act this way. I'm not good at hiding my feelings so I wore a constantly ...... off expression on my face. You would think someone would get a clue. To top it off, they think they want to move out here. They saw a truly run down house that needs to be torn down and rebuilt for sale. Granted the house happens to be in a great location, but if they chose to buy it, my house is closed to them while they renovate. I think I'm done for now. So far it's been two days since they've been gone, and we as a family are still gripping about the things they did to our house. I have to go through the house again and wipe ALL the walls down again, I've vacuumed and mopped all the floors to get rid of any debris, and I'm still finding stuff.
I had houseguests for a week. The wife is a friend of ours, and we've kept in contact through the last 15 years. Last time we saw them was 6 years ago, when we stayed with them for a week. This time she finally took up our offer and came up to stay for the 4th of July celebrations our town has. OMG, I don't have a lot in common with her now. Her religious beliefs are different than mine, and I didn't want to bog down the week with discussions about old testament vs new. Her husband is a very nice man, but her children are horrible! She has two girls, ten year old and 8 year old. Last time I saw them they were very small annoying girls. They are now larger annoying girls. The 8 year old was the worst. She has speech issues, so half the time, I wasn't sure what she was saying, she kept trying to steal things and hide them. She decided she was in love with my 13 year old son, and would wrap herself around his legs, constantly trying to hug him. He tried to hide in his room from her. She would whine and cry at the drop of a pin if she didn't get her way. Kept stealing the remote for the tv so she could blow our eardrums off. Kept chasing my dogs and trying to pick them up the wrong way or pet them to dust. Oh and by the way, I think she's got mental development issues because she would act like she was two, or at best at horrible 5 year old. Kept trying to open the ammo safe, pushed the adults out of her way when she wanted to get somewhere, wrote an obscene note to my son 8-o, and kept insisting she go everywhere he went. She did not eat much in the way of healthy food, mostly milk was her diet. She left cherry pits all around my house! The ten year old was behaving like an 8 year old, also chasing my son around, she kept stealing his cell phone, and barging into his room also. She broke the door frame trying to get in when he retaliated against her stealing his phone by hiding her stuffed animal . Neither bathed the whole time they were here. 8-oThey left my walls dirty from fireworks, drinks and general dirt. One of them smeared ink on the guest towels, and they stained the tub of my washing machine with that ink, (hubby wet sanded it out before I found out) cracked a tile on my kitchen counter, left water balloon on my sofa, broke a water balloon on my treadmill, and had a fit when I got mad and threw one of the balloons on the porch. She never apologized for breaking my son's door, in fact she realized what she did, then ran to the guest room and locked herself in. The 8 year old ran down my stairs to tell her mother! They were totally beside themselves to be in a two story house and my staircase was swung on and smeared up and down the whole visit. She even tried to climb the walls! The 8 year old got into my sewing supplies (Damn she didn't kill herself with the sewing pins) Neither parent were firm enough with their children. I realize that everyone has a different parenting style, but damn did you have to damage every level of the house? I think if I even mention having them come back for another visit my house would fall down around my ears in protest. My son believes just mentioning the younger girl's name makes my dogs shiver in fear. 8-o At first I was willing to have them stay for 10 days, hubby put the kibosh on that, and said make it a week- 7 days. Sheesh 7 days was too much for us! They expect us to come out and visit them next year. I think it will take us another 6 years to get over this last visit. Hubby was vaping along with me. We used up a 30ml bottle of TW's low strength vanilla in a week. Constantly vaping, good thing we had plenty of PCCs, batts, and chargers. I'm really dumbfounded by how poorly they treated my home. My son was ready to run away at one point. He was so upset by those girls constantly harassing him. We had to give him a laptop and made sure his door lock worked so he could get some time away from them, and everytime there was a noise from upstairs, both girls looked at the staircase for him to come down. It was horrible. They even tried to latch on to the neighbor girl. She wasn't prepared for how immature they behaved. She thought the 8 year old was 5 by the way she played with her 2 year old brother. I was so disappointed by how this friend and her children behaved, really poor houseguests. We just refinished our front porch and we have to scrub the soot stains off the floorboards they left. There were many times, we wanted to yell at the girls or boot them out. We even joked that our son was probably ready to start vaping because of those girls. They were loud obnoxious and their mother let them act this way. I'm not good at hiding my feelings so I wore a constantly ...... off expression on my face. You would think someone would get a clue. To top it off, they think they want to move out here. They saw a truly run down house that needs to be torn down and rebuilt for sale. Granted the house happens to be in a great location, but if they chose to buy it, my house is closed to them while they renovate. I think I'm done for now. So far it's been two days since they've been gone, and we as a family are still gripping about the things they did to our house. I have to go through the house again and wipe ALL the walls down again, I've vacuumed and mopped all the floors to get rid of any debris, and I'm still finding stuff.
JK
