I’m ticked
Ash-lee’s baby shower is a week from this Sunday. I got volunteered to help my mom with the planning. It’s been a lot of work, and there is a TON of stuff left to do in the next week. So my dad’s side of the family (there’s only 4-5 women this involves) decided that they weren’t going to come, they were going to take her out to dinner for a “surprise shower” or something similar instead. At first I didn’t care, but the more I think about it, the more it just pisses me off. It’s not my baby shower, so maybe I shouldn’t care so much, but the thing is that one day it IS going to be my baby shower, or my wedding shower, or whatever and I don’t want to deal with this pettiness! Is it really so much to ask that they set aside whatever they think the “other” side of the family has done to personally grieve them and spend a couple hours in the same room?? What happens when I get married? “Sorry, we decided not to come to the wedding, we’re going to take you out to dinner instead because god forbid we have to be civil to those people“?? Maybe I shouldn’t be so stressed out about it, but I am. This has worried me since the divorce first got nasty, and this is just not indicating to me that things are going to go well when circumstances in my life require the two sides of my family to be in the same room and get along.
