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Nothing interesting happened except I found out how to make crab casserole. It's white rice, cheese whiz, imitation crab, and onions. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes. 
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Our T-day wasn't too interesting. We went to DH's aunt's in Tulsa. It was a lot fancier than we are used to, there were name cards, cloth napkins, etc. It was fun though, there were about 25 people there. There was one interesting part, DH's aunt asked if everyone was going to go outside and play flag football, then DH's little 7 year old cousin said "I want to play fag football!" hahahaha, everyone cracked up, he didn't get what we were laughing at, which is probably a good thing. Then we went to my mom's boyfriend's and just visited with them for a couple of hours.
2 Thanksgivings down, 2 more to go. We're going to Sulphur tomorrow and Shawnee on Sunday...
Kaylee & Cole 06.14.08
8/6/11 First 5k! OG&E Expo Run 34:47
9/3/11 Brookhaven Run 5k 34:18
9/17/11 Healthy Sooners Fun Run 5k 33:38
10/15/11 Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 33:31
10/29/11 Monster Dash 5k 32:06 PR!
11/11/11 Veteran's Day Run 11k in Dallas 1:13:15 Instant PR!
1/28/12 Texas Half Marathon 2:38:03 Instant PR!
3/25/12 Earlywine Dash
Well, there was the hair-raising confrontation between H's aunt and just about everyone else, that I mentioned in the FFFC's. FIL's reaction to that was priceless. His face said so much.
H's other aunt (dad's sister) completely flaked. She said she was "up late" the night before and "slept in" too late (10am) and couldn't make it for a 12:30pm meal. She was supposed to bring the green beans (which I wanted) and the fruit salad. MIL was pissed and was telling EVERYONE. I didn't blame her.
G-ma in law, who's pretty senile now, kept trying to sneak wine. She isn't really able to get up and around much, and she's shaky, so people got it for her. She asked her granddaughter to switch wine glasses with her so she could have more lol.
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I can't wait to hear about that!
my sister's boyfriend was his usual a$$hole self and no one said anything to him as usual.
my grandma was sitting across from H and said something about him having something all over his head. She said it was white and he said that was just his grey hair. She told him he was too young to have grey hair and that he needs to dye it. Thanks Grandma!
So, not too much drama. We were over an hour late to dinner though because H had some guys working yesterday and they had some problems he had to go help them figure out. I thought that would cause some drama, but it didn't.
Oh, and my sister still didn't say anything to me
this made me smile. We always use cloth napkins at our house and I have never thought of it as fancy. I just don't want to buy paper napkins!
my mom uses cloth napkins at Thanksgiving too though. And placecards that I made like 10-15 years ago!
yes, I am 99% sure.
I found out yesterday that there's all sorts of drama on my dad's side. Long story short, my uncle [my dad's brother] has been going on and off with his wife for awhile now [who stole money from him, cheated on him etc]. They got back together, they got into a fight and the police were called. Uncle had enough, packed his stuff and moved from NC to Philadelphia [where most of the family is]. BUT, the rest of my dad's family has sided with my crazy aunt and think that my uncle's in the wrong for leaving her. The only one who has his back is my dad - my uncle has two kids, and even they're siding with their mom.
I'm glad we weren't near that situation. It was pretty low-key at my house since it was just the girls and JJ. Besides the fight my mom picked with my dad, it was pretty chill.
We had Friendsgiving last night and other than me getting completely wasted and making a total @ss of myself, nothing interesting to report.
Friendsgiving was awesome stripes! Thanks for having us over. The food was really good as usual, and the "game" gave me a few more laugh lines. Good stuff!
Oh, I thought of another (since my Thanksgiving didn't officially end until last night.)
I found out yesterday that my very irresponsible 20 year old cousin is pregnant. She definitely can't afford a baby, I'm sure she'll end up just like her mom and her sister and ask my grandparents for money every time she sees them. Oh, and she's 5 months pregnant...and still smoking...Hopefully she will prove me wrong and she'll make a wonderful mother, but I doubt it. It's such a sad situation.
Kaylee & Cole 06.14.08
8/6/11 First 5k! OG&E Expo Run 34:47
9/3/11 Brookhaven Run 5k 34:18
9/17/11 Healthy Sooners Fun Run 5k 33:38
10/15/11 Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 33:31
10/29/11 Monster Dash 5k 32:06 PR!
11/11/11 Veteran's Day Run 11k in Dallas 1:13:15 Instant PR!
1/28/12 Texas Half Marathon 2:38:03 Instant PR!
3/25/12 Earlywine Dash
Oh there was some drama. (Sorry this is going to be alittle long) Not really any big drama but drama none the less. My SIL (she's the crazy one) and my brother got into it Thanksgiving afternoon. I don't remember where everyone else was but DH and I were in the room with them while they were fighting.
Drama #1: We had brought the Wii down with us so we could have some entertainment during downtimes. Well my brother doesn't get to play videogames very much because my SIL doesn't let him (yup that's right she controls everything he does). Well she told him she was bored and wanted to go home. He said not yet because he was spending time with family. Well she starts to throw this fit and says "You know M this is not just about you. You get to see your family all the time." It was very uncomfortable. They go back and forth for awhile until he finally gives in and they leave.
As they were getting the kids in the car my mom walks by and wants to say goodbye but SIL and won't let her. Of course my mom gets really upset but doesn't say anything to her.
Drama #2: My other SIL is pg but not very far along so we were sitting there talking about baby stuff. My sister says something to SIL #2 (the one pg) about some baby gadget and then SIL #1 (crazy one) chimes in "Why do you want to take advice from her when she turned her baby's carseat around forward facing before he was 2." (backstory on this my nephew had to be turned around because he got car sick alot and threw up when he was rear facing so she turned him after he turned 1). So this really sets my sister off because she feels like SIL #1 is calling her a bad mom.
It wouldn't be Thanksgiving with my family without it!
Wow Ami, your SIL sounds like a b!tch.
Okay, so to elaborate on my earlier post slightly:
While we love her dearly, we think Grandma is showing signs of early dementia. She forgets things a lot or does really stupid stuff without thinking. She will also believe anything someone says her. Apparently one of her neighbors told her that the dirtier your dishes are when you put them in the dishwasher, the cleaner they will be when they come out.
There was also an issue with her alarm at her home--it went off because her neighbors went into her house to borrow a ladder while she was away. And so it became this huge deal like 3 days after the fact because she was saying how she never sets her alarm when she's gone, but for some reason did this time. And how she'll stop setting it again, but to deter thieves she kept all her blinds open on the house... *head desk* She said the alarm was worthless because it would take the police too long to get there if something really did happen. And so we tried to explain to her WHY she needed to always have her alarm on, and then she once again tried to justify not having it on: "Well [insert neighbor's name here] don't keep their alarm on, and they have way nicer stuff than I do!" Oy. You also have to repeat things to her like three times, she needs people to validate everything she says, and often she just doesn't "get" it. Oh, and she NEVER washes her hands anymore. Her wine glasses are gray by the time she finishes her wine.
Grandpa on the other side of the family is wonderful. Super nice, awesome guy. But he talks ALL the time and enjoys cracking really dirty jokes... which obviously is SUPER uncomfortable. And even though he didn't mean for everything to be dirty, some of the things he said came out really awful. Like at one point he called out to me (he, Grandma, and parents were at the kitchen table playing cards, I was on the couch and H was upstairs) and said, "Hey, why don't you come sit on Grandpa's lap?"
We all know he didn't mean it in a bad way, but... eww. I went to bed right after that.
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I'm sorry your grandma is starting to show signs of dementia. It is a really hard thing to comes to grips with and to deal with. I hope she finds treatment soon.
We're hoping it's not, and I think it might have even crossed her mind because she made some comment about being able to remember a password or something, so that she must not have dementia.
Oh, and I realize after reading that post that it sounds like I'm being very cavalier about it. Please understand everyone who is about to rip me a new one: That's not the case! Just trying to explain why it made the weekend... interesting.
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