Katzzz wrote:
I don't like the "pizzzzzing moaning groaning attitudes" from some of my sweet family members and afew others.
I know what you mean. This past Saturday we had the annual birthday bash for our daughters (their birthdays are 2 weeks apart). We do this every year - Rj smokes some ribs and we make baked beans, then everyone is asked to bring some specialty of theirs. We always invite his mom, brother, sister, and various members of his family. We also invite my mother and stepfather, my dad , his girlfriend and their two daughters, my brother and his wife and kids, and a few various friends.
Well, the problem lies in that dh's family REALLY looks down on my family. I mean (gasp!!!) my parents are d-i-v-o-r-s-e-d. My mother and stepfather are fine except that they are "backward country hicks". My dad and his seemingly endless run of girlfriends rub them the wrong way too, and now that he has had not one but two new children with his latest they REALLY frown on him. So anyway the party ended up being my inlaws in one room, my dad and his little family in another, my mother and my other friends all on the back porch AND NEVER DID THE THREE GROUPS MIX!!! Then my SIL had the audacity to complain that I was spending too much time talking to my family, and that Rj was doing all the cooking (Hey, the BBQ is his domain, not mine!), and that I was not a good enough hostess! The house was not as clean as it should have been, the garden was a mess, the grass was too high...
Next year we have already decided it - there will be no party at our house. We are renting the pool up at Fairmont State.They rent the small indoor pool for about the same amount of money we spent on getting ready for this bash this year. We will have cake, ice cream, and pizza and that is it. I won't have to worry about cleaning the house top to bottom, nobody can critisize how the yard looks, and the focus will finally be back on what it is supposed to be on - the KIDS!!!
Ok, that vent brewed for a few days. I feel much better now