Do you have any "I'm glad the holiday is over my family was getting on my nerves" stories you would like to share?
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November 26th, 2011
Don’t get me wrong, I love my family. But my niece was over with her two kids, ages 5 and 6 and they were wild! They were doing cartwheels in my small living room towards my fireplace. I think they were trying to see who could go to the emergency room first. When one of them flipped within centimeters of putting his eye out on the corner, I told them to stop. Their mother says “kids stop, you’re getting on Chyna’s nerves.” A few minutes latter I look over and one of them has three reeses cups stuffed in his mouth, most coming out of his mouth sitting on my beige sofa. Arrrgh!
So would you like to share your family stories?
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I don’t have any yet, but as soon as I get out of here, I’ll be happy to share!they’re watching me type….
p.s, I love your last topic (adds to profile)
OH @chyna ! How horrid! I can’t see my perfect grandchildren ever being quite so OC. Then again, I’m a grandma, and that comes with certain blind spots.
Ha ha ha, @chyna , I guess next time you’ll come to my house?
Not anymore after divorcing some years ago now. lol
I do what I want and am flexible in how and when and with whom I celebrate.
While we had fun it was a trying season with my ex’s super controlling mother and the narcissistic clan.
Everything was about hype and appearance and buying gifts for 17 people was INSANE!
My ex MIL was the grand matriarch and being conditioned as she was from her family and generation, by god, everyone had better tow the holiday line.
It was more like acting a part in a play than any true family reverie.
My poor daughter is holding her own now in the midst of grandmas guilt tripping and manipulations to guilt her into the holidays this year.
She has turned down the big shebang to go to her BF’s family celebration and Nana is none too pleased. haha
Me? I am just happily looking forward to our little celebration and feel zero stress at all. As it should be.
We had our usual houseful (fifteen guests). My niece and nephew (recently separated, trying to work things out) came over.
Nephew was initially in a foul mood and was rude to my wife and daughter. We had a ::ahem:: “talk”.
Niece shows up (on her own) and sits in front of my house, practically hyperventilating in her car. Had to chat with her also. There were tears.
At night’s end, niece & nephew decide to go Christmas shopping. So my wife (saint and crazy person that she is) volunteers to have a sleepover for their three kids!! (ages 8, 3 and 7-months).
The baby cried all night. I slept about two hours. This after a 100 hour work week and being up since 5AM.
Then, I returned to work on Friday – and was let go.
Ugh.
@cprevite , OH CRAP! Merry Christmas hu? What an awful time to be let go? 100 hours last week and now they can live without you? That just stinks!
@Judi: It does stink, but I’m hoping it’s a blessing in disguise. I still have my teaching gig and my wife just got a promotion. The free time may do me good.
@cprevite So sorry, but, remember, never be loyal to the disloyal. Now you are free to move in a new direction! Yay!
Not a holiday story, per se, but in re: to @chyna‘s laments.
A few years ago a friend brought her 7 yr. old grandson & 5 yr. old grand daughter over and I thought they’d enjoy playing on my cool hot tub on a summer afternoon while we hung out on my deck above the patio.
The little fucks…somehow they slyly managed to peel the caulking off of all of tiles in the tub!
I couldn’t believe it!
After they left I discover ribbons of caulking floating in the tub and a 3 ft. panel of tile separated from the side!
That was the first and last time I let little kids “play” in my hot tub! Grrr!
@Coloma: That’s how I’m trying to look at it. Thank you.
Any family members that endure, survive, enjoy the wife’s christmas dinner, immediately gain my everlasting respect, but yeah, i’m glad when they leave….....hopefully without an impending bout of diarrhea hanging over their sorry souls :¬(
This is why I volunteer on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Nobody can give me any shit for not being around while I am feeding people in need.
It was all going pretty smoothly until a younger family member, who has aspects of autism, said to a dear older friend of ours who’s in her 70’s and sensitive about her age already, “So you must be the octogenarian!”
Everyone who heard it just about died of embarrassment and our older friend left early.
They tell you in AA you can choose your friends but you’re stuck with your family, very true. I live 12000 miles from nearest family and there aren’t many of them left so I have no problems!
It’s a pretty drastic solution, but it works. ;-)
@johnpowell – that’s a fantastic and generous solution!
I fed my nephew for the second time, the guy eats like a horse. He squirms around so his face is on my chest and he rips a huge belch. He leans back and gives me a huge shit eating grin. I have a huge baby belch mark on my shirt. I loved it.
Just for reference, this was the second time that day.
MY better than thou sisters, get on my last nerve. The oldest told me that my combination of Blood pressure meds was not making me dizzy. #@*%!!
We had a good day, and were happy to see my husband’s sons, the oldest one’s fiancee, and their two children (almost 4 and almost 2 years old). We were also very happy when they went home. :p
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