First time at my wife’s thanksgiving after living in Oregon since we have been together. Travel from Nebraska to Iowa today. Her mom’s family get together, I’ll get through it because my wife’s twin is there and her husband is cool as fuck, having said that, I’m still hoping some football is on. We show up, SUCCESS football is on the tv and there are people actively cheering for!!!….the Dallas Cowboys???, but they play later why isn’t the Detroit/Buffalo game on …. The tv was on the NFL network from a game in week 3. The game was under the lights, it was 3rd quarter of the other game (early afternoon and sun up in 100% of the lower 48). A few are actively cheering on the cowboys. I wanted to crawl into a hole and die. Luckily one cousin made some jalapeño vodka and a couple of good cribbage games with some shitty Busch light saved the day?
Pre meal - Dad and my brother’s very Polish FIL talking about how bad it is to be helping Ukraine. Me: Yeah that worked out pretty good 80 years ago when Germany just took Poland and stopped right there, right? My brother requested through laughter to go feed cattle right then.
I need more details. Did they not know who won the game? How is it possible to cheer for a game from months ago?
So my 3 month old son has been sick since last week and was diagnosed with a respiratory infection. At a follow up yesterday around noon they sent us the the hospital for further tests. My BIL was already driving when this happened to stay with us and we were set to host 18 people today. I immediately went to the hospital to meet my wife and dropped my kids off with my wife’s parents. Spent the day in the ICU with my son and wife until my MIL texted that my other kids were hungry around 6. Guess she couldn’t handle dinner for them since she was cooking her side for thanksgiving. I picked up my kids and got them food and stayed at my house with my BIL and his family while my wife slept at the hospital with our son. Nobody volunteered to watch the kids over night so that I could be there… Fast forward to this morning and my little one had a really good night. Looks like he might be released so the family decides to proceed with thanksgiving at our house on a text thread I am not a part of. I start to make biscuits, turkey, ham, mashed potatoes and Brussels while my son is in the hospital. Get confirmation around 10 that they will be discharged. Family starts to show up with shitty pre made side dishes around 11. Zero offers to help with my 5 dishes while champagne flows for everyone else. Fast forward to 230 when food is close to being done and my wife is pumping and hiding in room a bit because she is wiped out. MIL starts talking all kinds of shit about needing direction on table set up and serving bowls. I not so kindly tell her we had a rough night and I’m finishing five dishes so figure it the fuck out. Dinner was solid. Nobody is moving so my cooler BIL and I proceed to have to clear and clean all plates and put all leftovers away while everyone else bullshits. Games start around 5 pm. Family is pretty drunk at this point. BIL is throwing some light racism like every year and my SIL is starting to get that look in her eye. She gets up suddenly runs to bathroom and throws up all over my guest bathroom and passes out in guest room. BIL says he did his best to clean it up but it wasn’t a great effort. I kicked everyone out except people staying with us about an hour ago saying I was done. Broke down all tables and finished cleaning because why not. Now whiskey drunk helping my cool ass nephew do homework. Happy thanksgiving! proceed with sorry or happy but I ain’t reading all that responses but i needed to vent somewhere.
That sounds like a nightmare, sorry about unemphatic family members. if it went the way that you described what the fuck. i had an annoying thanksgiving but is not worth describing after reading your post
Idk where else to put this but my friend noticed a guy working all day yesterday on the house across the street. My friend being a nice person makes the guy a plate of food and took it over there. Said he noticed him working hard on the holiday and wanted to bring him a plate. Felt bad, etc. kind of talking to him like he’s the only man in the crew that needed to work the holiday. Dude just bought the house. He’d already eaten twice. It’s his second house in the neighborhood because he’s renovating the house for him and his family. The other is just to live in until then. He said the walk back across the street to his house took 3 hours it was so long and embarrassing.
Despite being with my in-laws, Thanksgiving was a roaring success this year. BIL has a 3 y/o and 1 y/o; and other SIL has a 1 y/o. Everyone showed up at 3:30 for a 4 pm meal, and due to little kids’ bed times being at 6 pm, everyone was gone by 5:45. Leaving me with the couch, sports, and wine.
I wish I had more, but that side of the family almost all cheers for Iowa. So, that should explain most of it.
Don’t you live in Houston? They have restaurants, coffee shops, stores and 8th Wonder Brewery even has all Delta 8 products. I’m sure they have shops everywhere here that have it as well. I know they are trying to ban it though, because of course Texas is known for two stepping backwards.
Nothing exciting but we hosted my wife’s family yesterday. We haven’t seen my BIL and his fiancé in months even though they live a couple of miles away. Her family is in Lawrence and were getting together but he told us he was going to skip it and come watch soccer with us all day. We planned accordingly. Then it changed to him going and they’d both be here at 3:30. We changed plans accordingly. At 3 he texted to say they weren’t coming. I didn’t really care but my wife was apoplectic. No real explanation given. Just fuck us and all the food and booze and place settings prepped for them.
Cousin's ultra-conservative new gf I would estimate asked the girls questions for at least an hour and a half upon arrival. I thankfully had the excuse to go watch the game in the other room.
It was pretty ridiculous. I'm assuming she did extensive research on poly relationships prior to this event because I'm sure while we were given the heads up that she was really conservative she probably got the heads up that we were poly. I also texted in the group text we would be there with our girlfriend but unless she was told ahead of time about the poly aspect I don't think she would have thought anything of that. It was effectively like she had notes and questions prepared. This entire conversation also occurred within earshot of my Aunt on Thanksgiving which is obviously not the time or place to be interviewed on my sex life and relationship.
Little man is killing it this morning. (Photo is actually from yesterday afternoon before an internet detective calls me out on the time on my watch.)
Wife had to work so we are doing Thanksgiving with her family today. She is currently bitching out her sister because we are eating at 1:00 and she informed us the tv would be off. She didn't know the World Cup was going on right now. Am I dick if I watch it on my phone while we eat?
As a Pole it’s Fuck Russia forever. Democracy has allowed Poland to flourish But he grew up in America and couldn’t actually think about or empathize for others. Fuck him
Ok that’s what I thought too. The wife is wearing her ass out about this so I’m gonna encourage her to keep that going.
She's announced that you're not going to be watching USA-England in the World Cup because you are adhering to a strict dinner schedule for the day after Thanksgiving?