I just made my mom cry

And I feel terrible.

She came over to help shape my Christmas tree. And she always loves to point out things I need to change or clean in my house, every time.

So my dad and I and my husband are laughing talking to her and she looks at me and says “oh by the way you really need to redo that picture FYI it needs to be eye level it looks horrible” and I look at it and was like wow that’s funny because dad and Matt ( my husband ) hung it for me.

And she sat down and was like well I’m an inspector and my dad was like okay okay but this is her house and I was like

“ mom your a cleaning inspector, you don’t have to come in and inspect my house and talk about what you do 24/7” and bam here comes the tears and then she left.

And I feel horrible but I felt I had to say something and I didn’t mean to come across rude but all she talks about is work, and how she’s an inspector but this is my first home and I work so hard to try and make it mine and I don’t mind pointers but when it’s every time you come over you point out how I need to dust, I need to redo pictures, I need to fix this and that.

I texted her and apologized about the way it sounded. I didn’t mean to hurt her feelings at all and I know my dad would of been mad at me if I was rude but he just told me she’s emotional. She loves to help but this time help sounded more like nagging. Ugh I feel so bad and she won’t text me back I would call but she wouldn’t answer.

She just became an inspector so it’s still new and she’s still excited but I feel like the role is getting to her.