What was your Christmas Drama?

[Pomlover2586]

We all know how family get togethers can be full of drama.......what was yours this year?

Come on lets hear all the gory details! Vent Away!


My uncle decided to blow off Christmas this year and spend the day with his weekend get-a-way home instead of visiting the family........not as bad as it could have been but it still hurt.

 

[FireDancer]

We only have contact with my mom's side of the family but I must be in the minority, we have no drama ever for the holidays. My mom's family is Sicilian and we have quite a few aunts, uncles, cousins, and second cousins. It isn't as big as many Italian families but we hold our own.

No one fights, no one bickers, no one gets angry at kids being kids. I think it's sad that so many families can't get along 3 times a year (Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas). Family is important and they are there to hold you up when the world beats you down, at least mine is.

 

[MizTink]

i spent the night in the e.r. for stitches and got home about 4am christmas eve. poor dd10 was home sick with her older brother. i got 3 hours sleep, then ran around most of the day doing all the last minute stuff. then christmas eve evening i got sick (vomiting...yuck). couldn't even wrap the kids gifts. christmas day is a blurrrrrr......

 

[MizTink]

We only have contact with my mom's side of the family but I must be in the minority, we have no drama ever for the holidays. My mom's family is Sicilian and we have quite a few aunts, uncles, cousins, and second cousins. It isn't as big as many Italian families but we hold our own.

No one fights, no one bickers, no one gets angry at kids being kids. I think it's sad that so many families can't get along 3 times a year (Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas). Family is important and they are there to hold you up when the world beats you down, at least mine is.

that's what family is all about!!

 

[ma2jr]

i spent the night in the e.r. for stitches and got home about 4am christmas eve. poor dd10 was home sick with her older brother. i got 3 hours sleep, then ran around most of the day doing all the last minute stuff. then christmas eve evening i got sick (vomiting...yuck). couldn't even wrap the kids gifts. christmas day is a blurrrrrr......

Geez... that sounds horrible hope you have a better new year's

 

[PatsGirl]

No drama on Xmas, just preteen drama around returning gifts (see my post: DD12 Called Crying)...

 

[Jennasis]

Christmas was just awful...not even sure I can call it Christmas. DMIL picked a massive nasty fight with DH on Christmas Eve over nothing, however it culminated in DMIL telling DH he is the one responsible for all the stress and health woes in her life and that he should kill himself.

At the end of the screaming, she told him that she had "said what she needed to say" and that it was over (the fight) and that she was going to pretend it never happened...and what time would we be coming over for Christmas?

More was said, but I am not rehashing. At the moment I feel as though she is dead to me.

 

[lecach]

We live about 35 minutes from DH's family. This was "their" year for us to spend Christmas with. Next year we'll be with my family.

Anyway, we had decided that we'd get together Christmas Eve. We were at their house for 9 hours. Earlier in the week my MIL asked if we were coming back over on Christmas day. DH said probably not since he had to work Christmas night. He invited them to come to us. His Mom said she didnt think so but they'd play it by ear. He said that's fine, it might be nice for us to just spend the day with our family of 3. Christmas Eve night he asked his mom again if they were coming over. She said they'd play it by ear. We called them on Christmas at 12 noon. His Dad answered and said no one could talk. At 1:00 my SIL called and said "we're getting ready to walk out the door to your house". I said "oh, we didnt know. We havent showered or eaten yet". She asked to talk to DH. He was caught off guard too - he asked why they didnt give us more of a heads up. The next thing I knew, things got ugly and they said "well we're just not coming then". We called them back and said they were welcome, we were just caught off guard. They said no. Then DS who is 5 called because he really wanted to see them. They still said no.

DH was upset because he felt caught in the middle. When he talked to his sister later she said "well it is OUR year and when you go to her family you are there for days". My family is 2 1/2 hours away so we have to stay there. My grandparents cant travel anymore and we dont see them but a few times a year. Plus, when we do get together at Christmas it's never for more than 2 hours at a time so it all adds up to the same amount.

We went over last night as a peace offering and while SIL was a bit cool, everything seems okay. But she will not forget this.

The episode really put a damper on our Christmas.

 

[mickeymedic]

I just found out that my mom and her sister aren't speaking to each other - and haven't been for more than 9 months. Other than that, no drama here. I worked straight through Christmas so we haven't had any of the family celebrations yet.

 

[LaraK]

We were too busy hanging over the toilet bowls puking on Christmas to have any drama. The entire family had a horrible virus. Luckily it hit at lunch, so the kids could enjoy Christmas morning.

 

[lemondog]

Mine didn't really have to do with family, but I got a flat on Christmas Eve night and AAA was 2+ hour wait, so I just left it for 2 days. Had to get a ride home, all the while 8yo DD was wailing that Santa wasn't going to come since we were not home in time.

Then our heat went out. And thanks to the holiday weekend, all the suppliers carrying the part we need are closed until Monday. So you can currently see your BREATH in the downstairs of our house (yes, seriously), although the upstairs unit is working fine, so we are hunkering down up there for the duration.

It was a great Christmas otherwise, just some annoying (and costly) repairs to be made!

 

[sunnyday123]

No drama at Christmas, mainly because my brother and I aren't speaking. Our drama happened at Thanksgiving-he told my DD that she sent an "innappropriate" text to his DD ( ironically, his DD sent it to my DD first, and all it said was that it was National find your true love day,blah blah blah, if you don't forward it, you'll have bad luck) but he did it 3 x's, making sure no one was around to hear, and was mean about it. We literally almost got into a fist fight. It was kind of the straw that broke the camels back, he had been really mean to her over the summer because his DD wanted to go with my DD to her Dads house to swim, and they called her Mom instead of him to ask ( he can't take calls at work and she was going back to her Mom's anyway ) and then about a month before Thanksgiving, they were on the phone and he took the phone from his DD and told mine she probably had brain cancer because she was on a cell phone.

Needless to say, I blew a gasket on Thanksgiving. I later told my Mom, I pick my daughter over everyone, everytime, and not speaking to him is not the worst thing to happen in my life.

Whew! I am SO glad to get that off my chest!!

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

We only have contact with my mom's side of the family but I must be in the minority, we have no drama ever for the holidays. My mom's family is Sicilian and we have quite a few aunts, uncles, cousins, and second cousins. It isn't as big as many Italian families but we hold our own.

No one fights, no one bickers, no one gets angry at kids being kids. I think it's sad that so many families can't get along 3 times a year (Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas). Family is important and they are there to hold you up when the world beats you down, at least mine is.

My family doesn't do drama.

 

[Jennasis]

We only have contact with my mom's side of the family but I must be in the minority, we have no drama ever for the holidays. My mom's family is Sicilian and we have quite a few aunts, uncles, cousins, and second cousins. It isn't as big as many Italian families but we hold our own.

No one fights, no one bickers, no one gets angry at kids being kids. I think it's sad that so many families can't get along 3 times a year (Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas). Family is important and they are there to hold you up when the world beats you down, at least mine is.

That's what family is SUPPOSED to do. My family does...DH's mom, no.

 

[MichelleVW]

My uncle decided to blow off Christmas this year and spend the day with his weekend get-a-way home instead of visiting the family........not as bad as it could have been but it still hurt.

That's drama? That's why people have stress and drama on Christmas because it's "expected" that everyone will get together.

My family doesn't do drama.

Mine either.

 

[threecrazykids]

My punk *** 17 year old cousin learned the hard way that it's NOT cool to disrespect and yell at your 75 year old grandmother on Christmas to the point of her being in tears over the fact that she put cool whip on his chocolate pie.
I honestly thought there for a moment his father was going to literally lay him out across the kitchen floor because of how disgustingly disrespectful he was.

That kid, sad to say, is on a one way track to jail and there is really nothing anyone else can do at this point. It may be the best thing that happens to that kid.

Other than that little 15 minute incident it was a wonderful holiday!

 

[sunnyday123]

My punk *** 17 year old cousin learned the hard way that it's NOT cool to disrespect and yell at your 75 year old grandmother on Christmas to the point of her being in tears over the fact that she put cool whip on his chocolate pie.
I honestly thought there for a moment his father was going to literally lay him out across the kitchen floor because of how disgustingly disrespectful he was.

That kid, sad to say, is on a one way track to jail and there is really nothing anyone else can do at this point. It may be the best thing that happens to that kid.

Other than that little 15 minute incident it was a wonderful holiday!

His Father should have taken him outside to do the "laying out."

 

[mlynn]

My Drama wasn't family related.

I went to my sisters house to drop off the Turkey.As I was getting in my car to head over to my BIL my sister's neighbor shot at me with his new BB Gun.Missed me by inches. Yelled at him and he closed his bedroom window.Had to get to my BIL(we were running late now).
So when I got to my sisters house for dinner later(husband ran home because we for got something) I told her husband what happen showed him the \BB. Well my dad and brothers and Nephew is laws were all heading over there.So I made them all go back in and I went to talk to the mother(who is a very witch of a women) Well it took 15 min for the son to get her for me. To my surprise she was very sorry he did and thanked me for not calling the police she and her exhusband would take care of him.(I know she didn't do anything but I told her if there are any BB holes around my sisters house<She knows were they are coming from and the police would be called. I know I should have called but he is 12 and I didn't want to deal with a visit to the police station on Christmas.

 

[Frye7127]

My daddy told my FIL that he didn't know what the work world was like today and in no way could he make in the workplace in today's time

This was after my father-in-law pretty much barrelled into the dining room and told my daddy he didn't know what he was talking about when my bother-in-law (his son) and daddy were carrying on a conversation about the business world today.

 

[RitaZ.]

We only have contact with my mom's side of the family but I must be in the minority, we have no drama ever for the holidays.

Same here. No drama in our family. There was some when my brother was married, but he is now divorced. We're back to just enjoying the holidays without fighting and bitterness.