What was your Christmas Drama?

[Minnie]

We had a very suprisingly drama free Christmas

 

[yaytezIOA]

Sister made a big deal about not being able to do anything christmas day because she was going to "volunteer and get disney tickets from work". She was supposed to bring the new boyfriend over, and didnt because "I'm thinking of breaking up with him". Christmas eve comes and goes, and no problem. Christmas Day mom is lonely (she is going through a divorce, I just went through a divorce, I have custody of the kids but this is their moms christmas this year, and gf has to work) and she is browsing sis's facebook. Guess what she sees? Pics of sis, her new bf and his parents opening up christmas gifts and having christmas dinner. I get the phone call how ungrateful I AM because she does this. Meanwhile I went to church with her Christmas morning.....yay drama
Other than that....it was pretty drama free.

 

[momof1princess]

lots of Christmas drama for us:

1. (and biggest drama of all, without a doubt) middle step-sister was murdered by her estranged husband on Christmas morning. he hasn't been arrested YET, but the whole family knows he did it (just don't know how yet) and his story has already changed 3 times. they have 2 children, ages 3 and 6.
2. my bratty, never-been-corrected-a-day-in-his-life nephew (he's 5) ran amok through my aunt's house for hours, making my 80 year old grandmother an absolute, shaking nervous wreck.
3. grandmother's Christmas Day nerves escalated to chest pain, which required me driving her to the emergency room at 10:30 pm last night. i got home about 1:45 am and my aunt was still there with her when i left.

 

[mom2rb]

lots of Christmas drama for us:

1. (and biggest drama of all, without a doubt) middle step-sister was murdered by her estranged husband on Christmas morning. he hasn't been arrested YET, but the whole family knows he did it (just don't know how yet) and his story has already changed 3 times. they have 2 children, ages 3 and 6.
2. my bratty, never-been-corrected-a-day-in-his-life nephew (he's 5) ran amok through my aunt's house for hours, making my 80 year old grandmother an absolute, shaking nervous wreck.
3. grandmother's Christmas Day nerves escalated to chest pain, which required me driving her to the emergency room at 10:30 pm last night. i got home about 1:45 am and my aunt was still there with her when i left.

You win!!!

 

[momof1princess]

You win!!!

lol, yeah, i guess #1 would be hard to top. i'd give more details, because i know it's rude to throw out a story like that and not elaborate at least a little bit, but there aren't many details yet. my step-sisters and i aren't close, but i do feel badly for her children, who have had a very rough life, and obviously, it just got much worse.

 

[Ciciwoowoo]

I was actually anticipating much more drama than what actually happened in my family. It has been building up for weeks. I thought for sure someone would blow a gasket on Christmas Eve, with all the drinking they like to do!

Needless to say, it was pleasant that Uncle #2 just left the party without a word to anyone. Uncle #3 said a few unkind things about it, but it wasn't over the top and no one cried!

Now that being said, everyone has said they just aren't doing Christmas all together next year. I am all for that! I should have really tape recorded it though, and played it back to them next year when they pretend like nothing happened.

 

[bushdianee]

We had 35+ people come out in a blizzard to celebrate Christmas Eve at my DSis' house. I have 7 siblings & their family members and everybody came. Ages ranged fron DM who is almost 71 down to a great neice who is a month and a half old. There were no arguements or problems (except for the weather!), but then there rarely is when the whole family is together. Christmas Day pretty much everyone stayed home due to the weather. We still haven't seen a plow on our street.

 

[CF'er]

Wow. SO it was all of you sick people that had me hoppin' here at work? lol

 

[mom2boys]

Another dramaless Christmas here. It's been that way ever since we cut DH's relatives out of our lives. Before you flame me, it was DH who insisted on cutting the ties. He would have done it sooner if it wasn't for me and the kids.

Drama free is the only way to be!

 

[Luv Bunnies]

No drama for us. We're a pretty mellow family. We all live in the same city so we see each other all the time.

Something pretty funny did happen, though. My mom's brother is sort of a character. He lives in a very small town and visited his mother twice a day (she died 10 years ago), no kids, wife died 8 years ago (although the next door neighbor has since become his girlfriend). He doesn't have a lot of money and my parents tend to give him things, pay bills for him, etc.

Before Christmas, he told my mom not to get him anything. He said you can get me shirts or underwear but no big presents at all! Well, my parents had already bought him a 32" TV! Last weekend, we took a trip to the town where he lives and my mom asked his girlfriend where she could put the TV. The girlfriend said to put it in a closet that he never goes into and she would pull it out on Christmas morning.

So, my brother called our uncle on Christmas around noon and put him on the speaker phone. He said he just got up and hadn't opened any presents yet. So, we called again after dinner and put him on the speaker. My mom asked if he got his present. He said, "Yeah I got it and why can't you ever do what you're told?" He then proceeded to cuss her out in Armenian. Only the two of them speak it but we understand enough to get the gist of what he was saying. So my mom said, "I have the receipt. Do you want me to take it back?" He said, "Heck no! You leave it right here!" He then proceeded to thank my parents for it and said the picture is beautiful. It was so hilarious and so like my uncle to react that way!

 

[DISNEY1975]

I went to my sister's house. Normally, she is a gourmet cook, but she just recently had surgery, and her foot is in a big heavy boot. She cant stand for more than 1/2 hour tops.

So...she ordered a fresh turkey and all the sides from a local farm. My BIL was in charge of the turkey. He seasoned it and put it in this turkey machine (like a crock pot for turkeys!) My sister timed all the sides perfectly and when they were ready, she asked BIL to start carving the turkey. He opened the cover and...

Voila....it was almot alive! I think he forgot to turn on the machine, though he claimed he did and it was broken??? Regardless, we had side dishes for our meal!!!

 

[heartsy77]

No major drama just little annyences.

1.
MIL brought SIL to my house Xmas eve without asking or telling us she was bringing her. ( DH isn't close to any of family especially his siblings). I only invited MIL out of obligation
2. Lovely 16 year old stepdaughter, after opening all her presents, informed me she wanted a DEB gift card, not a RUE21, like I bought her! She is so ungrateful 85% off the time. But that is just her; I just smile and grin!

 

[krcit]

No drama here. I don't do drama. Refuse to engage in it.

 

[tasha99]

No drama here, but some was narrowly missed. My youngest sister claims a pack of cigarettes was stolen out of her purse while we were all at our dad's house. This is preposterous--what are they now, $5? The drama that was missed was that if my teenager hadn't been home sick, I'm pretty sure everyone would have assumed she'd done it. As it is, there were only adults and young children present, and I am 100% positive my sister lost her cigarettes or left them somewhere and chose to say "stolen" when in fact, they were not.

 

[VillageMama]

My drama was spending the day at the ER because I was sure I was experiencing my second Christmas miscarriage... the first one being just last year.

But I was blessed with a Christmas miracle... I got to see and hear the little baby's heartbeat.

 

[Magic Mom]

No drama here. Just dealing with colds and missing DH. Other than that we had a nice relaxing time; played games, watched movies, reminisced, and enjoyed each others company.

 

[pilesoflaundry]

My mom was grumpy, rude and said some very hurtful things on the phone but that was it. We have very little family drama anymore and it's nice! The stuff my mom said is typical, she's said it before and been called on it and she doesn't care. She's mentally ill though so I come to expect it.

 

[dakcp2001]

My drama starts with a backstory. DSIL has recently been discovered to be an alcoholic. Our neice had been found wandering the street knocking on doors telling people mommy would not wake up, so the police had to kick down her door and found her passed out drunk at 1pm in the afternoon. Something similar happened in a grocery store, sil was passed out in the car, which means she had been driving with the baby while drunk, DN had gone into the store asking for help. BIL then found out that SIl had not been paying the bills and that they were thousands of dollars in debt, checks had been bouncing all over town, and there were a zillion credit cards maxed out, and zero left in savings. We had heard NOTHING of any of this and no one knew anything was going on until DBIL called around asking for money to borrow for a laywer a few weeks ago. He seemed devastated and had to move to a new apt. There was a big custody brewhaha with sil parents who are very wealthy and we were told sil was in a rehab and would be back in Feb.


Well Christmas they show up like a happy little family, and SIL is drinking BEER. 1. She should be in rehab several states away 2. they were having a bitter custody battle/divorce and 3. he did not tell anyone she would be there so no gifts for sil and totally akward 4. what happened to all the money everyone lent them? Was it all a lie?

ANd when she appeared to be the one driving after drinking, the entire family was going to just let her go. I took her aside in another room and asked if she needed a ride,bil agreed to drive and the family said I was rude for saying anything. Sorry, a well known drunk who is NOT supposed to be in contact with her child is drinking and driving with the baby, you bet your bottom dollar I am going to say something. ANd really, they are lucky I didnt ask all the questions we have left floating in out minds.....I felt like standing up and asking everyone how they would have felt if she hit a tree on the way home. I was shocked people were just going to let her drive.

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

Our big drama was just one of those days when everything went wrong. Aaron was supposed to meet me at 10:30 at my house. We were going to leave his car in the garage and take mine to my parents. I had all four animals secured in the car. I realized I don't have a snow shovel, so I tried shovelling with a garden shovel and I guess I didn't get it good enough and got stuck multiple times. At 10:50 there was still no Aaron and I was very frustrated because I was out in my good clothes trying to unstick my car. His phone was going straight to voicemail and his family had not heard from him. I was pretty much in the "if he's not dead, I'm gonna kill him!" frame of mind.

He finally showed up and we got my car back into the garage (but not before noticing the cover on the bottom has come undone.) We transferred everything to his car. His cell phone was on the floor of my car, dead, because the snow from our shoes the night before had gotten into the phone. On the entire 2.5 hour drive on roads that weren't so great we had no heat. We were able to make it without issues, but did watch an SUV in front of us spin from the passing lane all the way to the right shoulder.

We were able to make it home without too many issues. Christmas day itself went well. Yesterday we took his car in, it turns out that there is a crack in his antifreeze reservoir and it hand completely run out of fluid (the engine temp had been normal, so we're not sure when that happened). Found out his cell phone was ruined, but we gave him one of our old ones to use until he is eligible for an upgrade in February. He's been having computer problems and his friend called to tell him that either his CPU or his motherboard is fried.

We were joking that our first time spending Christmas as a couple went just swimmingly. We figured if we can survive this, we can survive anything! It can only get better from here.

We did have fun with my family. It was just a stressful beginning. Sort of still is as the car issue and computer issue have not yet been resolved.

 

[SwedishMeatball]

Not family related, but we went to see Avatar and the theater was packed. An elderly gentleman with intestinal issues sat next to me. About a half hour into the movie, he ripped a good one. I spent the next two hours hoping that nothing else would startle another fart out of him.