Crazy family Thanksgiving...

missyscadoo

So as of right now my mom and step dad are both too busy to bring my brother and sister to my step dad for Thanksgiving. Who gets stuck in the middle 9 months pregnant and driving an extra hour and a half.... me. :S Oh and I still have not heard what I'm supposed to bring to Thanksgiving either. Here's to hoping that I don't get lost on the way to grandma's. Oh and I'm spending the holiday with my step dad's side of the family, not my mom. Then again, I don't really remember before he lived with us, so he is really more like a regular dad (my own dad passed away when I was a kid so this really holds true). Still, my mom having a Thanksgiving dinner for her boyfriend and his daughter and her boyfriend... kind of hinting that she would like some help cooking, but oh I'm not invited and neither are my brother and sister... you know her own kids (who live with her and are only in middle school). Yeah, let the craziness of the holidays begin. Anyone else having a dysfunctional Thanksgiving. To be honest though, I think it will be a nice day after the pick-up business is done. I just also wish that DH wasn't working the mid-day shift so that I could see him a little and have a buffer.

hannahmariiie

Ugh don't you just love holidays?  That's really sad though that your brother and sister aren't invited to their own mother's Thanksgiving dinner.  Don't feel bad though, SO grandma just disowned us last night because we "hurt her feelings" by telling her that she couldn't go in the delivery room and that we wanted her to come up to the hospital the second day instead of the first, that way it's not overwhelming.  So now, on what will probably be SO grandpa's last Thanksgiving, we aren't going because we "burned a bridge".  There's some awesome holiday spirit right there.

heatherom

My mother and sister live less than 2 hours away from me and nobody invited me and my BF over for Thanksgiving, which is ironic considering for the past 10 years or so I was the one who always had to cook Thanksgiving dinner for everyone. My mother hates that I'm pregnant and my sister just doesn't care about anyone but herself and her own kids to stick her neck out for me. My aunt (who we are staying with temporarily) is downright rude to us now because she thinks her 3 yr old grandaughter is learning how to smoke cigarettes from my BF because her own daughter is too chicken to admit that SHE's the one who smokes around the kid, not my BF. We weren't planning on having Thanksgiving at all because we can't afford to spend that much money on one meal and because my BF has to work overnight installing a tile floor in a restaurant that's only closed for one day - Thanksgiving.

Just when I was going to start feeling sorry for myself and my BF, and stew in resentment for my family, a friend from the church stopped by our house yesterday and dropped off an entire Thanksgiving dinner - a turkey, a ham, green beans, pumpkin pie ingredients, cranberry sauce, stuffing, a pineapple, and even some ice cream. I am so overwhelmed by her generosity it makes me cry. I wish I knew what to do for her in return. Who needs family drama? Only the people who care matter.

missyscadoo

hannahmariiie:

Ugh don't you just love holidays?  That's really sad though that your brother and sister aren't invited to their own mother's Thanksgiving dinner.  Don't feel bad though, SO grandma just disowned us last night because we "hurt her feelings" by telling her that she couldn't go in the delivery room and that we wanted her to come up to the hospital the second day instead of the first, that way it's not overwhelming.  So now, on what will probably be SO grandpa's last Thanksgiving, we aren't going because we "burned a bridge".  There's some awesome holiday spirit right there.

What's worse is they live with her and my mom made my little sister call me to see if I would pick them up. She wants them out of there before company comes.  Seriously? So yeah, I'm pretty much planning on getting there a little early and seeing if the kids would like to go for a drive or something and make sure that they are properly packed since they won't be going home until Sunday. Sorry to hear about your stuff with SO's grandparents. That's too bad. Gotta love the holidays.