I'm not around family that makes me crazy.
See how easy that was?

I get to spend Thanksgiving with my ex-wife's family.. Weeee.. Actually they treat me like family still and are very respectful towards me. I treat my ex-wife as my friend and try to work things out in a civil and repsectful manner.

We gave up on family Thanksgiving after Turkey Brawl '08

umm.. actually, nothing. everyones been nice and cordial this year.

truthfully, that makes me worry more than the annual war over scheduling

Oh lordy, where to even begin. I doubt we'll be doing anything with any of my husband's family this year because he is fed up with them. We will probably drive an hour to see my parents on Thanksgiving and then have a small dinner with just me, him and the kids on Friday. I told him I would make his favorites and we could just relax, eat some good food, drink some wine and not worry about the drama.

Nothing. Everyone's doing their own thing this year.

Although I've never had Thanksgiving family drama, so got nothin.

My f*cking sister undermined my plans for Thanksgiving: I told her I planned to have the family dinner at my house and, the next thing I know, my mom is asking me if I am going to my sister's house for T'giving dinner with the rest of the family.

F*cking family. I've got one to sell, cheap.

My mother emailed me and asked me if I'd like to go to a second Thanksgiving this weekend for some family that won't be at the primary event. She said it was totally optional, no pressure, etc, etc. Besides the fact that family events wear us out, we have a ton of stuff going on in the next two months and desperately need our weekends, so I said no thanks on doing Thanksgiving twice. Then she emailed me back that she was disappointed that I had said no and blah blah guilt trip for all the reasons I should go, can I please change my mind?

Grr.

Look, if you want me to go, just tell me and I will do it. I don't have the patience for the kind of games where I am supposed to understand "optional" really secretly means "obligatory."

Well, apparently now that my mom has left the mortal coil, my family is playing tug of war with me and my father trying to get us to go to THEIR dinner not THEIRS... No means NO.

Tziva: games where I am supposed to understand "optional" really secretly means "obligatory."

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My mother is still in mourning over her cat dying a month ago and is boycotting Thanksgiving this year. My dad is so sick of her that he's taking my little brother to Oklahoma to visit family. I can't get the time off work to go with them, so my sister and I are stuck cooking this year. I've never made Thanksgiving dinner before, so I'm a little nervous..

Nothing crazy yet.

Green? shiat.

My uncle just got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer so that puts a damper on meeting up at his restaurant this year.

Nothing.

"oh hi guys heres a place to complain about your family. do it now, do it fast, because we're going to make this GREEN and now all your liter relatives are going to see this shiat in all its glory"


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Green? For the turkey, maybe? For how we feel after eating too much pie?

Meh. Thanksgiving is sooo one month ago for us Canuckian.
Enjoy your domestic disputes & deep-fried turkey assplosions, 'merikuh!

My family, nothing. The inlaws are getting ready to divide up the belongings of someone that will not be around much longer. Don't visit her in the hospital, but stake dibs on her tv. They make me sick.

My mom emailed me to day she cooked the turkey last weekend. She is putting it in the freezer and will thaw it out for Thanksgiving.

I offered to bring a freshly prepared turkey.

That family Thanksgiving is always a shiatshow.

Andrew Wiggin: Look, if you want me to go, just tell me and I will do it. I don't have the patience for the kind of games where I am supposed to understand "optional" really secretly means "obligatory."

she sounds jewish. or catholic.

Some stereotypes hold true don't they?

My brother and his wife have seven kids. #7 is my brother's. Possibly #6. Being in their house is like being around Kurt Russel's home in Overboard

Currently they are in the midst of a Jerry Springer-level fight where he's accused her of cheating on him with the security guard at her work and she's accusing him of using steroids again. Both are probably true. I got a taste of it last week when I went to visit my brother in the hospital(nasty lung infection) and his wife arrived just as I was leaving. Their marriage has lasted 13 months. I don't think it's got another six left.

They've invited me over to their house for Thanksgiving. I'm pretending to be on the other side of the country that week.

Mirrorz: My uncle just got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer so that puts a damper on meeting up at his restaurant this year.

He sounds like a selfish bastard.

/ That was mean, and I am sorry. Best wishes and hope to your uncle's recovery.

They keep greenlighting TFD threads.

/YOU'RE ALL MY FAMILY!

Dammit subby. You f*cked it up. You were supposed to ask what your family has done to make you totes cray-cray. Dumbass.

Kyro: They've invited me over to their house for Thanksgiving. I'm pretending to be on the other side of the country that week.

NO! You have to go and film it for me. Thanks!

The crazy won't start until the day before. Mom and I are cooking again. We get along great but when my sister gets there things will get stupid.

I think I'm the only person on earth who really likes my in-laws. They are awesome. MIL is a great cook, they spend tons of time with the kids and always buy us really nice Xmas gifts. Last year they got me Black Ops and Planet Earth on blu ray.

I wonder if the greening of threads is to discourage queue/threadshiatting.

On topic, Thanksgiving has always been one of those "we stay home" things.

I swear though, if I ever have to host for the entire family, I'm making all the crap we had to eat when we were poor.

ignatiusst: He sounds like a selfish bastard.

Well he DID call me my brother's name at my own wedding, so... he's either taking the Ron Swanson approach to cutting people down or he doesn't care enough about anyone to remember their name after seeing them every week for the past 32years.

Hyperbolic Hyperbole: "oh hi guys heres a place to complain about your family. do it now, do it fast, because we're going to make this GREEN and now all your liter relatives are going to see this shiat in all its glory"


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Yeah, not cool, modmins

We will be going to the father in law's new family's home. They are a huge family. My family as well as the wife's family are fairly small, so it takes some getting used to being around so many people over the holidays. They are very nice people though, and very gracious, so I really don't mind.

LlamaGirl: Kyro: They've invited me over to their house for Thanksgiving. I'm pretending to be on the other side of the country that week.

NO! You have to go and film it for me. Thanks!

Kyro is probably slightly used to that, but ASF has no protection. He should just sneak over and set up hidden cameras and then run far, far away.

I'll be seeing the GF's family. That means I can't get in any fistfights with either my brother or stepfather.

Hooray!

I'm spending Thanksgiving alone this year. I'm actually OK with that though.

My family sucks ass. I would spend it with my boyfriends family, but his Thanksgiving sounds like he is just going to the airport to pick up his brother, and then hang out at an old folks home for the remainder of the day...no thanks.

Need to find a one person sized turkey....also know as a chicken

My crazy MIL invited herself to housesit while she's dogsitting, and is now trying to simultaneously flake out on us by asking us to come up with a back up plan of having her drop off the dogs at the FIL's house in case her sick aunt gets sick and she has to leave town while we're gone. If you knew how much her ex husband and his second wife hate her, and how many dogs they already have in their house, you too would know how completely ridiculous this request truly is. I'm predicting next she will say not to worry, she won't leave town, then while we're out of town she'll just show up at her other ex's house (we're still on good terms with him and his new wife) using the sick aunt as an excuse to try to push the dogs on them and irritate the new wife who also hates her and is allergic to dogs.

/yes, I am a bit cynical about my inlays, but I've moved on to acceptance mode, I accept that she is going to do something to drive me nuts and there's no way to predict what or even stop it
//though otherwise, things are going well, crazy won't start till we're all in a confined space together for a while
///and in good news, my dear cousin and lifetime bestie who hasn't spoken to me in over a year due to her abusive husband has finally reached out, so maybe the holidays will be good.

imapirate: I think I'm the only person on earth who really likes my in-laws.

My in-laws are great. It's my family that is moderately crazy.

CrazedHatter: Man, so soon? Not cool.

Yeah well, there's a reason we were skipping the extended family gathering this year, now there's all the more reason. I don't need to sit around and listen to them lament my mother's loss like they're the only ones affected by it. Heh.

Besides, this way I get more taters to myself!!

Although the wife's recently-widowed aunt (who is awesome) brings a new friend to family functions now. He's ancient and is a giant, pulsating asshole. He biatches about every single thing all day and spouts off random racist things about the President, even when kids are present. My wife yelled at him last Christmas and I larfed.

My brother and his wife had to suggest, however jokingly, a destination turkey day. Lo and behold, my mom thinks that sounds like a great idea and really pushes for it. Never mind that plane tickets around turkey day run $400/round trip minimum, and that it will split my wife and I up over Thanksgiving (she's just started a new job, and has no vacation time earned yet). So I get to go be a 7th wheel among my parents, bother and his wife, and one of my uncles and his wife (9th wheel if you count my neice and nephew).

Oh yeah. My other uncle decided he didn't want to go and took the easy way out. Massive brain hemmorhage yesterday afternoon, died overnight.

Fark it all, sometimes.

It...it actually looks like this will be a relatively stress free holiday. Everyone has agreed on a time and place. Hopefully, no one will get into a screaming fight, cry, or threaten to withhold a grandchild.

Hopefully.

CrazedHatter: Silver lining, Llama, silver lining. That's why you're awesome. :-P

I just don't like to share the taters.

MINE!