My son was born on Thanksgiving last year, I grabbed a turkey leg on the way out the door and ate it as I drove. My wife was a little irritated by that.
HERE IS THE DEAL. I am going to give you a present for the holidays. I am going to let you have no opposition to your opinions . I am going to give you no more cop insite. no more family insite. no more political insite . no more gbn insite. my wish for you is lots of argueing , political hate , and family deception , and police snooping. me I am going to kick back and give you what JAX TELLER AND GOOD FOR ANOTHER STARTED IN A MASSIVE DOSE . HAVE FUN ON YOUR OWN . AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS . HOPE YOU LIKE WHAT THE CHEESEHEAD AND KANSAS GUY LIKES .
My mom is also let me show you this YouTube video person. Last night spent an hour seeing some French guy make his own ramen noodles.
If anyone has the older version of let me show you this YouTube video person, let me show you all 1000 pictures from our family vacation to pigeon forge, you have my never ending sympathies.
Shitty human being sister in law update: She, of course, pawned her kids off on her parents last weekend and they stayed all week. Yesterday, her oldest woke up with a fever, soar throat, and throwing up. SIL (did not work yesterday) just couldn’t come down until today because she was just so exhausted. She’s still not to her parents house yet.
When my sister moved back into my dads house when she was 40+ with 2 kids, my uncle asked my dad the exact same question My dad's response was "she is my daughter and my grandchildren, what am I supposed to do?"
I understand giving them a place to live if they need one. I don't understand just funding their life somewhere else for no real reason other than they won't do it themselves
It’s comes from people giving themselves too much credit for things that happen. In this example it’s a parent feeling responsible that their child is like that. “I must have been a bad parent and need to make it up to them” syndrome.
There are a lot of factors, obviously. Ive never been a parent soI’ve never experienced ‘unconditional love,’ but that’s part of it I’m sure. I also think my Dad likes still being a parent, likes being the man of the house, which is largely absent with both children out of the house. My mom is much more rational, and reluctantly acknowledges how bad my sister is. But she also loves nothing more than having the whole family together, which only happens 2, maybe 3 times a year. So I grit my teeth and try not to ruffle feathers for my mom. That’s the only reason. Just this morning, I’m preparing the turkey, Dad’s doing some dressing, Mom is chopping vegetables. Mom - [sister nug], could you help with something? Sister - no. What? Dad - could you run to the grocery store and get some things? Sister - no. I’m going to work out [goes and sits in her room for an hour] [father returns, she still hasn’t left her room] [comes down 10 minutes later and does yoga in the living room while we continue to prep] She’s a fucking joke. This at least set my mom off and she gave her an earful
While I agree in most circumstances, my parents were amazing and both of us were giving more opportunities than we deserved. I was kind of a shithead as a kid.
I think in most cases the parents did a decent job. They are not responsible for the kids’ decisions, but take credit for the bad decisions that are made.
Parents neighbors daughters hot friends were teaching my mom to dance to Cardi B last night. It was a tough scene.
Yea, I'm sure there is a point that if you can afford it, you might rather pay for them to live somewhere other than under your own roof Also, depending on the parents own social circle, they may prefer to make it appear to their friends (or even family) that their aduld kids are out on their own Again that is if the parents can afford to do that. Hell they probably figure, the kid is gunna get it in inheritance at some point anyway, might as well be while the parent doesn't have to put up with adults living with them anymore
I bailed on most of my family this year, am spending the weekend visiting my brother in LA. My parents are hosting Christmas this year, though, and he’s very much still a train wreck. Good luck out there today, everybody.
My sister in law just showed up to thanksgiving with pink/purple hair. Cousin’s fiancé got wasted last night and went for a 2am swim in the ocean. Ready to see what he does tonight.
Finally have a worthy contribution. We are at my wife’s grandparents. They live in a tiny town in west Texas. They are basically hermits so we have to visit them to see them. They’re nice, but weird. Also, they don’t really do much to celebrate holidays. My mother in law arrived a day early to convince them to abandon their plan to serve Subway sandwiches for thanksgiving dinner. Instead, we’re having some fall and winter vegetables and a traditional oven-roasted thanksgiving pork butt. Seasonings are limited, and all stores out here are closed, so hopefully it tastes ok. Also my wife is making a sweet potato pie. They also got “the good beer,” so we have plenty of Coors Light in the fridge.
We took a Lyft last night with my wife's grandma and mid-ride she announced "this chauffuer really knows her way around!"
Got to the in-laws about an hour ago. Two bourbons and two beers in. Been up since 4am. Looking forward to being that family member.
can't complain about my family, but someone this year brought a version of that disgusting mayonnaise pear salad with pineapple instead of pear. So they're the worst
Update, pie drama. When my wife was rolling out the dough, she asked “what’s the black flecks” in the dough. After some investigative work, my wife’s grandmother informed us that’s it’s just “deer cracklings.” Turns out that means that it splattered into the flour container the last time she made chicken fried venison. Since that was the last of the flour, talk then turned to how we could “make” “flour” out of cornmeal and cornstarch. Luckily that idea was scrapped when a miracle bag of flour was found in another cabinet. With that crisis averted, we looked in the pantry for the necessary spices. Amazingly, everything we needed was there. I took a look at the allspice to see how old it was. I was pleasantly surprised to see its expiration was only 11/18, just missed by a few days. Then I noted that the year was “86.” So actually a couple days and 32 years. No allspice after all. The immitation vanilla extract looks similarly old, but no date can be found, so my wife’s grandmother happily informs we can consider it good.
We’re watching the Lions game, flip over to the parade and some music act is “singing” some dumb song. Wife asked why they’re holding the mics pretty much up touching their mouths. S-I-L says it’s a dumb attempt to hide the fact they’re lip syncing. Wife is now fucking pissed and says all parades have been ruined for her now
Wife’s grandmother while sitting next to my almost 3-year-old son watching the halftime show of the Detroit/Chicago game: “alright big finish, now get this shit out of here.”
my uncle is in an extended dispute with directv and i am not fully aware of the details. so been trying to rig an antenna for football today. gonna burn through some data tonight for the unc game
as someone whos family is spread all over the place for thanksgiving this year, you folks are making me feel like i am a part of your family ty