Family and Holidays

Well I am gearing up to go to Missouri soon to have Thanksgiving with my family. My mom and dad have been divorced for over 9 years now and they have both agreed that we could have Thanksgiving together. This is a huge deal seeing that I have not had a holiday with my mom, dad, and sisters since 1999. I have had it with my mom and sisters, but that is different. Dad lives in North Dakota so I am praying that he will actually be able to work it out with his work schedule.

I am not sure if my husband will be able to come yet, his work schedule is up in the air right now, so I possibly will be bringing my best friend and her 3 kiddos. Yes we ARE crazy! But what are friends for, if not to go on an adventure that we know will be stressful and live through it lol! Anyway I am having mixed feelings about the holiday, not that I am not looking froward to it, but well its just to explain seeing that you don't know my major stress problem from almost 2 weeks ago.

So Thanksgiving..... I have been so excited for months about spending the holiday with mom, dad, both of my sisters with their boyfriends, my hubby and kids. Its like a dream that we all can be in the same place. Well............ I was notified yesterday or the day before that Thanksgiving has progressed into a HUGE family event. Now it will be the previously mentioned people, along with my two aunts and uncles, their kids (my cousins) and then their kids, along with my grandmother. Oh my grandma, she is not someone you want to be around. She drinks, she is unhappy, I think she hates life, ugh. Oh and one of my aunts, well she drinks and gets loud and obnoxious. So being excited for Thanksgiving has turned into me dreading it. I know its just for a few hours that I have to be around all these people, but geesh. Everyone but my aunt and grandma are great, love them, but I can not avoid the annoying ones. They know they are annoying and are like vultures, they prey on you and can not wait to eat you up. Ok well they are not gonna eat me, but you get my drift.

So now what? I almost want to stay home, BUT then I would have to have Thanksgiving with husbands family. Not that I don't like them, I love them!!!! Its just hard when you want to be somewhere else. And then possibly not having my husband to go to his family's with, booo. Not liking it.