It started good enough... I got to leave early thursday morning and was off friday. Mid day friday B, R and M came over we had a gift exchange, dinner, watched a movie, ate popcorn, chitchatted, etc it was nice til MIL got home since she doesn't like them so immediately asked if they were staying *rolls eyes* Then MIL decided at about 9 or 10 pm she was going to take off to go 75 miles away and not bother coming back till 9 pm Christmas night (after we had gotten her and V -who also went- gifts and stockings and tried to make sure we'd have enough food, etc etc.) even G (who is the most spoiled, snotty, attitude problem filled family member usually) declined to go with MIL and V because "christmas is about being with your family and if you already said you'd be here and they got extra stuff for you it's rude to not bother being there" (the kids think family and friends give you presents and santa fills the stockings so even the animals have stockings that get filled with chew toys and the like... typically you only get a stocking if you're there but they got one since we'd already bought the stuff)
The people down stairs fried their TVs and the fire department came up at 330 am Christmas morning to tell us to unplug everything and that they were turning off the electric till the electric people came to see/fix the problem... It was still cold that night... J came by, then C didn't show up till 6 pm when she said she was spending the day with us, then she brought a friend over (that we've met twice) and them M brought 2 friends we'd never met before... MIL and V get back and V just drops **** in the middle of the floor the kids just cleaned up and so my 8 yr old started yelling at her to move it and MIL goes "do you see the way she talks to me? D and Crimson let all the kids talk to me like that all the time!" (yeah, well you see I taught my kids that respect is a 2 way street years ago... they know to get respect you need to give it so since V, G and MIL treat them like crap they give it back. C and M and J have never been "talked to wrong" by my kids because they treat them like people...) then MIL says "that's it I'm leaving" and C says "to where? a guys house?" and MIL gets offended and starts yelling and screaming at her... C tells her "well every time you abandon your family it's to be with some guy" (when more than half of your 6 children -who hate each other- have voiced this it tends to be the truth, just saying) and so MIL yells at her again and slams the door as she leaves (to go to her ex boyfriends house... see above sentiment). V goes after her after berating C for being honest, then comes back upstairs and spends more than an hour sitting in the middle of the living room floor looking like a beaten dog... at 630 am the next day my 4 yr old started throwing up... she was sick all of yesterday... she was getting upset with everyone being assholes xmas day so I think she got stressed out and thats why she was sick but everyone else thinks it was a virus that magically no one else we know has *rolls eyes* ah yes and T was back on leave from Afghanistan and was supposed to be over with his wife L on Christmas day but didn't come by till yesterday and then only stayed 10 minutes... *sigh*
All in all the day was bad enough D was considering when we move not telling them where our new house is and just inviting B, R and M over xmas eve and J, S and E over xmas day since they won't **** it up for the rest of us... And the reason that's really sad is that it is HIS FAMILY! All of them are -except B, R and M... but they're such close friends they're practically family and are better than the blood family- Our best xmas of our relationship was just me, D, our older 2 and that year we just had us and one present for each kid and a small dinner. I miss being broke and having nothing -to include extra family members polluting my space-
Ah yes and I almost forgot the hour or so C and G argued over if G's clothing was appropriate or just made her a slut, skank or ho depending on the portion of the conversation...