Wednesday morning, just as as I was getting ready to make pies, my sister stopped by my parents' house with the partially-prepared dish she was planning to make (along with ingredients and instructions). Guess what! She decided to tell us on that day that she and her husband wouldn't be coming to the family gathering. Really folks, she waited until the day before to tell us. So not cool.
I should probably note that even though we see each other a lot, these family holiday gatherings are still important. Or rather, they are important to everyone aside from the aforementioned sibling. Neither of them had their kids this year and everyone knew that. It was understandable that the kids wouldn't be there. Also, it would have been a completely different thing if they were going to see his family over the holiday. But they didn't. Oh no. They chose to go to a resort and casino and waited until the day before Thanksgiving to tell us.
Now, it's true that I'm irked, but it isn't because they didn't come. Instead, I'm irked because they gave such late notice and because it really hurt our parents. They'll never say so to her, but it did. My mom was already under the weather and this didn't help matters one bit. They were both really disappointed since family gatherings like this have always been important to both sides of the family.
The one consolation (aside from more leftovers for the rest of us) is that when extended family members asked where they were and my parents told them, you could tell tell by the looks in their eyes that they thought it was odd, too. Not much was said, but certain expressions along with the comments like "oh...okay" actually say quite a bit. When Thanksgiving is a chance to see extended family that you haven't seen in a year or more and you skip out to go to a casino, people notice.
Anyway, that's our mild version of holiday drama. Compared to other people's drama, it seems pretty lame, but this is drama for us. Of course, we'll all repress it to the best of our abilities. That's what we do. :D
Sophie's reaction to all of this:
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