Silence

With my mom away for 2 weeks, there is a bliss of silence in the absence of her constant nagging all the time because you can never satisfy her since she is an Asian parent.  The reason is because whenever you do what she wants, she will always find a reason to complain and tell you to do something else and the cycle continues.  For instance, my little sister was diligently doing her homework past dinner time so she came upstairs and told her to take a break and come down to eat.  I joked that she's only going to yell at her to go back to do homework then yell at her to come down to eat instead and so on because that was exactly what happened.  Although it's nice to not have dear mother nagging all the time but it's also more awkward to have my dad around too because he's not there nagging all the time but at the same time his silence makes you feel like you should be doing something so it's even worse.  On the bright side, without my mom around I can do some cleaning and donate things because with her around she always takes everything back even though it's all junk that we will never use again or totally outdated junk.  I probably like to clear out old stuff so I can buy new stuff so that could be a problem.

Let's go mama!