All I want for Christmas...

I know it's well past the holidays, but I have been in a whirl wind of activity since Christmas. Christmas was a blur of ups and downs. My daughter got way too much stuff as usual. Christmas morning was nice. My daughter enjoyed all of her presents and my stepdaughter decided early Christmas morning that she needed to go home. Conveniently this thought occurred to her after she had opened her presents from us, and I think may have come from the fact that she now wanted to see what her mom got her.

We move on to the lovely family time. My husband and I had agreed to have dinner with my mom at my grandmother's house and then go see his parents. Well we did not leave the house until after 4pm which put us at his mom's house at around 7:30. Well apparently he never told his mom that we were going to my grandmother's first because the whole time we were there all we got from her were little digs about how she spent the whole day cooking and now everything was cold because we took too long to get there -- I mean 3 hours of this!!

This left my husband in a really foul mood so I never got what I really wanted for Christmas which was a little Mommy and Daddy time under the tree after the kid went to bed. Instead I stayed up all night fuming and playing the Sims I love that game--it never disappoints and when bad things happen you can always start the game over. It's the perfect game for people like me who live in a world of Let's Pretend...Worst Case Scenario.

It dawned on me the day after Christmas (after I made up with my husband)that we go through this every year. His mother ruins my Christmas EVERY YEAR....okay I know it's not fair to blame her, but what are in laws for if not to take the blame. So here's my first resolution for 2007... Next Christmas we will be going to her house first! I prefer MY mom's cooking, but one must make sacrifices for a little nookie under the tree!!