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Crabby mood
I'm just crabby and I think PMSing...for the last time for 6 months...woot woot.
I am invited to my cousins wives baby shower in Feb. I have another engagement that same day I was going to do. Then I found out that they did not invite my one cousin, who is sister to my cousin who died last year. I know my cousin would not come but it's the point that all family members should be invited and I just find it utterly crappy. I told my mom if all the family members are not welcome and I refuse to attend any family functions. Besides the fact that said person who refuses to invite my cousin is the one who dicked her over her entire life after she got custody of her and dead cousin. Then she disowned dead cousin a week before she died and all of her kids are on medication to make it easier for her to take care of them....you can see the kind of person she is. She just rubs me the wrong wrong way and I am grumpy at her.
Wow...rant over. Thanks.
Re: Crabby mood
Family issues are always so complicated. I have to admit that we had an invitation issue with my shower. We spend time with Dad's cousin and his wife. We camp, go to dinner etc. But Dad's family is large which means lots of cousins.
My shower was planned at a tea house that could only accommodate a small number of guests. So we had a decision to make do I invite cousin's wife which would mean her SIL's, great aunts, additional extended cousins? My mother's gut reaction was to not invite anyone extended but I felt that would hurt cousin's wife's feelings.
So we invited her but explained the situation and she understood the family dynamics completely. Maybe we rubbed someone the wrong way but we aren't invited to their showers, graduations etc.
I am sorry that you feel like you are in a situation especially one that is not well thought out. I would go to the other function and send a small gift.