Boo sadness but yay Puerto Rico and shearling, heyyyy.

I am in Chicago and taking a horribly expensive cab ride to have dinner with family friends (one is my age and lives near the train to ohare for the morning, but at the moment they are at the parents house in suburbs). So that is ok. Sad I broke my Christmas tradition of movie watching with my sister, but so glad to not be snowed in. Whew. (Perhaps I shouldn't exhale just yet, since I still have to get home, but)

Merry Christmas peoples!

We're getting ready for dinner and just took hilarious family pictures.

OMG, I should have stayed at my parents' again. Miiiiiiiice.

So the creatures are stirring?

YES. I yelled at it and it went away.

Classic: My mother just called to see if I had accidentally taken home the necklace my father gave her. I started going through stuff, and finally remembered: He didn't give her a necklace! I did, but she had that one.

So my SIL's family managed to not call for my nephew's birthday, Christmas AND her brother announced on fb today that he & his wife are expecting this summer and her mother goes all gaga over a grandbaby to spoil, nevermind the 2 she's ignored for the last 5 years.

Now, PJ years ago gave up expecting anything resembling sane behavior from them, but it still pisses her off.

Ooh, that'd piss me off too, sarameg, but the truth is she's losing out more than they are. It's been my experience that, in the wake of not bequeathing my kids much in the way of living grandparents, they've had a wealth of relatives and friends happy to shoulder grandparenting duties.

It's true. She doesn't bad mouth her parents and brother to the kids, but Dominic is catching on.

Just got back from mom and dads. For those of you who have not heard, SNOW IN TEXAS. like on the ground, and staying. of course my car was outside so was covered in ice and snow and doors were semi-frozen shut.

Mac stayed over with the grandparents, unexpected, but nice. I just hope that Bailey will do ok sleeping in his room alone.