Thanksgiving dramz?

[MrsAggie]

On thanksgiving my little brother will be proposing to his 19 year old gf of 5 months that he met on the Vine when he was still dating the last girl that he was planning on proposing to in May. So...this should be interesting.

[tiptoetulips]

Sounds like it! Keep us posted. Have you met her?

[spankswife]

Lol! That's pretty good!

Mine is fairly vanilla compared to that

[ginkgoleaf]

Wow. How old is he?

I don't have any thanksgiving drama - but Christmas will prob be another story!

[melsamoony]

That sounds very interesting!

Thanksgiving should be pretty tame for us, Christmas may be a little more interesting.

[rockinrobyn]

Wow. I would like to hear how this one plays out. You have to keep us updated.


I am just going to piss a lot of family members off. We usually spend Wed-Sun with my family for Thanksgiving since everyone comes to my parents house and we spend Easter with DH's family. Well this year DH's family wants all of the kids and grandkids together at his grandma's house. So, we will have to leave Friday evening to come home. I am pissed and I know my mom won't be happy because now that we live 6 hours away with DH's family she never gets to see me.

[pooh8402]

Sounds like it may be fun.

I have no drama expected, thank goodness.

[Deleted]

Sounds like a fun thanksgiving.

I work thanksgiving so it should be drama free. DH and I will be having our own thanksgiving the next day. I'm not sure if I want to invite anyone else or keep it romantic for the 2 of us.

[MrsMB]

I'm praying that I don't. This year has been hard enough...praying for peace and joy.

[travelbug]

Definitely keep us posted, that sounds like it could get interesting!

I'm hoping no drama but it does have potential to be lots of drama with my SIL and her BF. We shall see! I really hope not. It's my first year hosting for the in laws. I'd like it to go smoothly!

[bk1]

We shouldn't be having any drama.


But as a side note:
(This was before I was around) but BIL was engaged to three other women before his wife. Apparently it got to the point that MIL didn't even bother to get invested because she didn't know if the current fiance would stay around. 

When DH brought me to his parent's house MIL figured we would end up getting married. I was the first girl he ever brought home to meet the family.

[katespade]

We're avoiding drama by skipping my ILs. Of course that will create its own drama, but I have them hidden on Facebook so I won't have to see any of it. Haha.

[awick14]

Our thanksgiving is over but we always have IL drama around holidays. It's so annoying. MIL just doesn't like that we don't spend every holiday with her family.

[HoneySpider]

I don't anticipate any drama. I don't even know what we are doing. DH & I are going to my parents' house but my brother is working so he and SIL and niece won't be able to come. So IDK if we are doing it on an alternate day or what.

My dad is very adamant about having it at his house with his family there. My mom has been cooking Thanksgiving dinners for 35+ years and is tired. I think DH & I are going to maybe cook BUT we just realized we can't go up the night before so if we drive up the morning of, we won't get there in time to do some of the cooking. IDK. I wish my parents didn't have to work the next day so they could come down to us and let us host them like we did last year (we love cooking Thanksgiving)

[Deleted]

I don't anticipate much drama either because I plan for us to stay home on Thanksgiving . I want to have a quiet day to ourselves with whatever we feel like eating that day. Last year we went over to my parents' house. My in-laws always have a huge Thanksgiving with about 30+ people, but we're avoiding certain relatives, so we skipped that for the past 2 years. MIL is upset about it, but she'll get over it. We'll visit her either right before or after Thanksgiving.

[mac08]

No drama, my family is pretty small and low-key.  We usually spend Thanksgiving with my family for the actual meal.  We will see H's parents at some point during the weekend, but not for an official thanksgiving meal.

[estrellita]

We might have some drama this year. MIL's sister has been ridiculous lately. MIL wants to do Christmas Eve because H's aunt always does it so early. I will be working until 4:30, and I'm sure H will be working most of the day too. They start Christmas Eve at like, 1 or something. We're about an hour away. So we rarely get to spend time with H's family for Christmas. ILs are about 20-30 min away and it's on our way down to my parents, plus MIL wants to start it a bit later so we can be there for most of it. Apparently H's 17 year old cousin started crying to GMIL that she wants Christmas at HER house. Seriously?! (Background: cousin is a spoiled brat. She got real diamond earrings from her parents for her 16th birthday and they weren't "clear" enough for her so they had to exchange them). So anyways, I'm sure there will be plenty of passive aggressive drama around Thanksgiving too. This is ILs year (we switch off) so.. yay. Haha.

[MrsAggie]

estrellita How does a 16 year old even tell the clarity of diamonds? I didn't even know that there was a difference in clarity at that age lol. She sounds like a peach

[MrsAggie]

My brother is 23. He's graduating a semester late next month and she just started her second year of college. Oh, they also don't go to the same school and will never live in the same city before they get married.

He's also incredibly immature when it comes to relationships so he's nowhere near ready for marriage. His gf seems sweet but she has no idea who she's marrying. They've never even fought yet lol.

[estrellita]

Nov 5, 2014 19:54:03 GMT -5 MrsAggie said:

estrellita How does a 16 year old even tell the clarity of diamonds? I didn't even know that there was a difference in clarity at that age lol. She sounds like a peach

Right?! I told H my engagement ring could have been fake and I wouldn't have known the difference, haha. MIL wonders what kind of e-ring this girl is going to insist on  :? Oh, and the best part is that she got all fake emotional and cried when she opened them. I thought she was really happy until I heard the rest of the story! And yes, she is an only child if anyone is wondering, lol.

[travelbug]

estrellita wow.. She sounds like a real delight.. Oy vey!

[wanderingenough]

Sounds like it should be interesting MrsAggie!

Ours will be low key. As of right now it's just H and I. I invited my parents, but my mom can't make up her mind. Either way we will be fine! H handles frying the turkey, so I'll just do sides and order pie.

[bk1]

I feel very fortunate in how we work out holidays between my family/DH's family. DH's family tends to do it on an off day because MIL wants us there all day long and she knows that isn't possible if she picks the specific days. Since it works that way we tend to do the specific days at my mom's house, and she likes to just have us over for a bit then have us go home.. lol. Our families are very different that way.

So Thanksgiving day we will be at my mom's house, mom and I will go shopping on Black Friday, and Saturday we will go out to the in-laws. It's kinda nice to break up the big meals by a day too.