Storm has been weathered, with only one person sobbing on the porch and one getting a severe talking-to.
I probably need the talking to part. I've been meltdown city today. I even had DH call his family and tell them not to come to dinner. Then I later had him call them back and say to come again.
t basketcase mode
The whole thing has been too much. I've had to beg, plead, and bribe the kids to get the little decorating done. I'm tired of year after year doing everything. Decorating, cooking, cleaning, shopping. Then this morning, shock and so not surprise, not even a single present for mom. Nope, not one, only the stuff I got for myself, and even some of that gone. I had bought orange juice and champagne for myself to have a Christmas morning mimosa. Kids drank my orange juice. I really could go on and on. But I still have chores to do. Whatever. Next year, I'm going somewhere and being waited on.
t /end whiney whine
ND, do I get a vote? I vote you don't go spend the holidays with your family next year.
You spend it with Kristin and make yourself happy. You can fly your nieces (and nephews?) out to see you in LA and take them to Disney Land. Everybody's happy!
If I had a vote, that is. Which I recognize that I do not.
Then this morning, shock and so not surprise, not even a single present for mom. Nope, not one
What? Outrageous family foul! DH should be riding heard on them on this at least.
Your kids didn't buy a present for you, Laura???!!! Oh, my god, I'll kick their asses myself. SHAME on them; I mean SHAME. You always get your mom something, even if you must make it from your own body parts.
Zmayhem calls dibs on Laura for Christmas 2007! There will be mimosas and homemade cookies and toddler and Emmett cuteness, and you will get many gifts without having to lift a finger for them.
::gives Brendon the hairy stinkeye::
{{{Laura}}} I'd be in meltdown mode too.
ND and everyone else suffering from family hell as well.
I've had a lovely, albeit very quiet and low-key, Christmas. Today I brunched with a friend and her family, and tonight I will make myself a Cornish Hen just for me. I have the house to myself with plenty to eat and drink. I'm enjoying the alone time.
Merry to all!
ND, do I get a vote? I vote you don't go spend the holidays with your family next year.
You spend it with Kristin and make yourself happy. You can fly your nieces (and nephews?) out to see you in LA and take them to Disney Land. Everybody's happy!
If I had a vote, that is. Which I recognize that I do not.
I like the way you think. I don't think it will happen, though. ND just has the one niece, and she is graduting high school this year. He worries about upsetting his mom, who is not in good health, and not being home for Christmas would definitely upset her.
Personally I'm willing to bite the bullet and spend Christmas day with them if I can then kidnap ND away elsewhere.
{{{Laura}}} I'd be in meltdown mode too.
Me too. Sweetie, have you expressed this to them as a group? Because you really, REALLY deserve better than this.
Then this morning, shock and so not surprise, not even a single present for mom. Nope, not one, only the stuff I got for myself, and even some of that gone.
This is just wrong, wrong, wrong. Can we have the Buffistas tropical retreat ready by next Christmas?
This is just wrong, wrong, wrong. Can we have the Buffistas tropical retreat ready by next Christmas?
t votes Ginger for High Ruler of Everything
Can we have the Buffistas tropical retreat ready by next Christmas?
Well, one can wipe the formerly inhabited island of LohaChara off the list.