and I have the shopping well in hand, but already the family feuds are rearing their ugly little heads again.
That complicated tangle of inlaws and their relations (etc) is twisting itself into a tighter knot with A not going to B's place under any circumstances (and I can understand that having heard the reason), so B doesn't see why the suggestion is that everyone go somewhere else and it might get ugly if someone explained this to B (who is married to C who would probably get very unhappy and refuse to go anywhere, which would be a shame as their children J, K, L, and M enjoy a family Christmas). In addition D is unhappy with E again for something else... and you know S and R have never got on so you have to be careful that one doesn't feel the other is being favoured...and you have to invite G but he's such a pain. Though at least Uncle H isn't around anymore because he was shocking with a bit of drink in him and poor Aunt Z used to get so embarrassed.
A whole month to get through before it's over...
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LOL how shocking that anyone would want to watch children open presents that they had spent ages selecting or making in order to see the look on the childs face! Yep clearly child abuse, shame on you! *giggle*
We have a lot that you actually hesitate to watch as they are so embarrassingly overindulged that they are likely to go "Yeah that's not very exciting" at the carefully selected present...
I want to spend the day sitting in the sun with a glass of vino, chatting to various family members, without too much drama. In between that I am quite happy to do some cooking and clearing up. Hopefully the adults don't all end up behaving worse than the children - we'll see.
Actually you are probably the same - every family event there is a huge gap where my father used to be.... I wonder if that ever goes away.
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