View Full Version : Is there anyone that you DREAD spending the holidays with?
Danielle
12-02-2007, 09:38 AM
Do you have an uncle that gets drunk and dances on the table? An aunt who tells you how fat you've gotten since she last saw you? A cousin whose kids are "perfect"? If so, tell us about that person.
This year it's just me, dh and the kids. THANK GAWD! If I had to choose the person I'd least like to spend the holidays with it would be my uncle who doesn't have kids but thinks he knows how everyone else should be raising theirs :rolleyes. He once said, "I may not know how to handle kids but I don't think anyone else around here knows either." :bite me
Stacy
12-02-2007, 09:44 AM
Some of my in laws in the past! They have changed though... getting off of drugs and alcohol does that to you.
It will just be Sonny, me and the kids. Thank goodness Mike is coming home for the holidays!
giana
12-02-2007, 12:42 PM
My father in law....we are like Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat at its best...
Danielle
12-02-2007, 01:31 PM
Oh dear Giana, sounds like fun.
Amber
12-02-2007, 02:18 PM
Just MIL, but fortunately, that won't be an issue this year ;)
Jbird
12-02-2007, 02:49 PM
Uh - MIL - I guess it's not THAT horrible, but trying to have a conversation with her is exhausting and uncomfortable.
Nope, not a one. I like my parents and my FIL just fine, and those are the only people we spend holidays with.
Casey
12-02-2007, 07:58 PM
The in-laws!! This year it will be just Steven, me and the girls!
Giana-I am guessing that I should be happy that I never had the pleasure of meeting him.
There isn't really anyone I dread. There are people in my family that could drop off the face of the earth but we don't spend time with them anyway.
MathSpeak
12-02-2007, 09:39 PM
Not this year ;) I love my family, dearly...
Maleah
12-02-2007, 11:22 PM
My MIL is kinda of a drag to have around the holidays but they probably won't be visiting because their other grandkid that lives with them doesn't want to make the drive.
:lmao ohhh Giana that sounds like a party and a half there :giggle
For me it would have to be my FIL, I have such huge issues with the man- according to my mil at one point he was a decent, pleasant man but I think when he decided to run off and leave his family his eldest son went from child to competition and no matter what David does he has to put him down, no matter how we are someone else is better, thankfully David has gotten to the point where he's done with chasing him trying to make a relationship and accepted he doesn't have to be the person to make his dad feel he's better (it's almost like if David raises a happy family it proves his dad could have done it if he'd have kept it in his pants whilst working away and his dad resents that and berates us constantly)
His dad is very materialistic and we're not- you'd think the world revolved around having carpet and a car to that man :rolleyes
We have sucessfully avoided him for an entire 2 years now- when Jude, Dylan and Loki were born he made no effort to come and see them (Dylan is 4 in march and he last saw her when she was crawling and that's the only time he saw her, Loki is one on the 19th and we've heard from him once since he was born and that was David calling to tell him he is a boy) I'll admit last year I did go into labour and give birth on the day he visited for christmas but he doesn't make an effort the entire rest of the year so i don't at christmas (he'll visit dh's sisters and not us or when he is coming to visit he'll call everyone and not us but expect us to be waiting for him :rolleyes)
This year I am refusing to have him turn up on Lokis birthday and make everyone else feel uncomfortable.
Jude told my mother the other day he thinks he's dead as you don't see dead people, Dylan can't remember who he is and Chase actually asked me when she was 7 if she has to call him grandad as he isn't one- he's just the man who made daddy and you need to be nice to be called grandad (thrilled my dad to bits that i can tell you)
Other than that we have obvious dog issues with my sister but I do still love her and enjoy her company when she's not trying to get the dogs equal/superior status to my kids
Ordinarily, I would say my Grandmother - but apparently I am the golden child again...once upon a time I was the worst in the world, because I *shock, horror* had a baby without being married, but then two other siblings had two each without a ring, so she can't bitch about that anymore - plus as her memory is slipping she's mellowing with age...and whatever her fight with me was she does adore Maia. So I don't have to worry about her anymore.
Other than that would be my stepbrother...but that's more because if I ever saw less than 10 feet away from Maia I wouldn't be able to be held responsible for what I might be tempted to do to him...but he's never around for Christmas because he lives interstate. My stepmother and stepsister fly up to see him and drop off gifts etc in a week or so, and I don't have to deal with him at all.