Christmas makes people insane
Posted
Friday, December 14, 2007 11:40 AM
I don't know what it is about Christmas that drives people to act like complete morons. Maybe it's the overload of red and green. I'm not sure those colors were ever supposed to go together.
My MIL is upset because of the arrangement of how we're spending Christmas day. She did this last year too, so I'm actually quite used to these hysterics. She wants us over at 2, but not eat until 5. WHAT? That's WAY too long to be just chilling at her place doing nothing. And I'm going to be H U N G R Y! That's a given without being pregnant.
We're spending part of Christmas day with my FIL (all my family celebrations are on different days, thank god, because it was last year when we "ruined" my MIL's Christmas by also having to spend time with my immediate family on that day. My mother learned from said incident and we're celebrating on the 23rd this year...which is fine by me). My MIL is quite upset that we're seeing my FIL at all. Yeah, because Christmas is definitely the time to still be stingy with your adult children, bitter over a divorce that happened 20+ years ago, and jealous that your ex actually still has a relationship with his children. Urgh.
If only the stupidity would have stopped there. Nope. My FIL, usually a very well-intentioned man, has decided to spend a ridiculous amount of money on his new girlfriend and her two teenage children this year for Christmas, so he told his two children (which includes my husband) that Christmas will "be light" this year. No big deal, it's his money and he can do whatever he wants with it, and my husband is an adult and doesn't really need gifts. However, why in the world would you actually TELL your children that they are barely getting anything this year because you have decided that your girlfriend's family is more important. Ridiculous.
Christmas bringing out the crazies, part 129,344,756.
Posted by
edmo
Filed under: Holidays