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My mom has successfully ruined Christmas
Every year for as long as my dad can remember, my mom's family has gotten together on Christmas Eve to eat a light meal and exchange gifts. My parents were married for 29 years and then my mom decided to cheat. My dad, my sisters and I have been dealing with the disappointment and heartache that comes with this for almost two years now, but my mom only recently told her parents what she had done (and is still doing). My grandpa, being the hardass that he is, decided to cancel Christmas Eve because it's just too much for him to deal with emotionally. He's upset with my mom and he feels awkward around my dad. The family isn't whole anymore so my grandpa decided to cancel Christmas. Way to go, MOM! Not only were you a crazy b!tch for most of my life, emasculating my father and criticizing your children, but now you cheat (and keep cheating, because you're not technically divorced yet) and ruin Christmas all in one fell swoop. My poor LO 
I hope all this crap is over before she can remember that it was ever this bad.
/end vent.
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Re: My mom has successfully ruined Christmas
That sucks. Is there any way you and your sisters could have a Christmas Eve celebration?
FWIW - There was mucho drama between my parents and my dad's parents when I was a baby. It apparently went on for years. I had no idea it even happened until my dad told me. When I was in my 20s. So it's not likely that LO will know this drama existed unless someone tells her.
Unable to even.
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My mother sent me her clickable Christmas wish list in an e-mail this morning. If you don't buy from the list, Christmas day is ruined. One year my stepdad got the wrong sweater... you'd have thought the world was ending. She threw such a temper tantrum! Sometimes she even puts the barcode numbers on the list.
Last year I donated money in her name to St. Jude Children's hospital just to do something "off the list", but also something good. She didn't have anything mean to say about that (she knew it would have been the ultimate wrong thing to do since I have a cousin who passed away from childhood Leukemia). How am I to raise an appreciative child if she's spoiling the meaning of the holiday?
I hope everything gets better for you and your LO!
Our first family photo!
Thanks ladies. Dan & I have already talked about starting new traditions with Emma because both our families are heavy on the crazy (in completely different ways). & cinema_goddess, I hope to start a new Christmas Eve tradition with my sisters when they get a little older. One is 19 and the other is 14, so they're still at the mercy of my mom.