I know I should not but I really hate this time of year. It never fails. Someone is going to get ill or die when the holiday season starts. Last count I have a friend and a sister both in the hospital, and another friend has a loved one very ill. As if that was not all bad enough my niece has taken it upon herself to push the family gathering from 2 days before Christmas to the day after Christmas. We get together once a year, and she had the urgent need to go on a vacation trip for the 4 days before Christmas AFTER the original date was set. The reason that derision sucks is this it the SECOND vacation to the same place she will have taken this year lone.
I realize my family all have other lives and other people depending on them, and most of the time I am content to fade into the background and let them spend their time with others even if it means I will not see them. BUT ONCE A YEAR I want them to all be together, and I think it is incredibly selfish of my niece to postpone the family gathering so she can take a second trip to a place she has already been once this year. I know there are those of you that will say you will still have the gathering just a little later. That is the same thing my brother said. And I am going to tell you like I told him. They have other family. They will not be all alone on Christmas like I will. My oldest sister used to come see me on Christmas day so it was not so hard on me, but they have been having health issues so they do not come out in the bad weather anymore , and she does not come visit like she once did. The fact they are pushing Christmas back to the day after Christmas makes me wonder that the point is. Why decorate no one will be here? Why go to the Christmas party Christmas will be over?
I am getting all this info third party. :( The ones making all the changes did not call me and I do not have fb, but they ALL have my phone number. I even got the news they kept my sister in the hospital a day later and not from one of her kids I got it from my brother who got it from my sister's son in law. Like I told my brother they all have their phones glued to their hands how hard would it be to call me and tell me some of this stuff?
Ironic is it not the best Christmas I had in decades happened 2 years ago that was the year we lost my older brother his wife and my favorite cousin in a 3 month period of time. Christmas went great that year. I do not think it is going to go so well this year. We lost my nephew in Sept. now my sister is in the hospital, and the party was moved till after Christmas. Unless something happens to change it Christmas is going to suck this year.
I am sorry if I am bringing you all down, but as I have said in the past I write my blogs for me and I really needed to get this all out of my system so I can try to find a way to pretend to be happy so I do not bring anyone else down with me.
