Mi Familia
This weekend we celebrated my cousin Jenny's wedding. It was lovely, and Jenny is lovely. So i s her new husband, Mauricio.
While I love Jenny, the interesting and rather stressful part of the weekend was dealing with the rest of our shared family.
Yesterday was the wedding. Today, a bunch of the family got together at Jenny's parents house. This gathering included my sisters, my crazy aunt and uncle, my dad, gramma and her husband, great aunt and her husband, other miscilaneous cousins and lots of people from Mauricio's family. Oh the pluthera of awkward moments and unfiltered conversation. The unspoken messages were louder than words. The stress was rather overwhelming. Not to mention my little sister was really crabby and blamed everyone else for having her car towed the night of the wedding. It made my head spin. That and the wine that i used to help me to cope.
Oh, but wait, there's more...
Tomorrow (Monday) I have lunch with my dad. Yes, I haven't actually seen him since my wedding. Which was 3 years ago. Add that my little sister invited herself along when i really jsut wanted to have my own time with him to speak my mind.
And Bill is out of town. He left today for Boston. I join him on Thursday. I already am anxious to be with him. The entire hour and a half drive home I vented to him about the stories of the day (which I won't even get into), and he is NOT a phone person. Thursday cannot come quickly enough....
While I love Jenny, the interesting and rather stressful part of the weekend was dealing with the rest of our shared family.
Yesterday was the wedding. Today, a bunch of the family got together at Jenny's parents house. This gathering included my sisters, my crazy aunt and uncle, my dad, gramma and her husband, great aunt and her husband, other miscilaneous cousins and lots of people from Mauricio's family. Oh the pluthera of awkward moments and unfiltered conversation. The unspoken messages were louder than words. The stress was rather overwhelming. Not to mention my little sister was really crabby and blamed everyone else for having her car towed the night of the wedding. It made my head spin. That and the wine that i used to help me to cope.
Oh, but wait, there's more...
Tomorrow (Monday) I have lunch with my dad. Yes, I haven't actually seen him since my wedding. Which was 3 years ago. Add that my little sister invited herself along when i really jsut wanted to have my own time with him to speak my mind.
And Bill is out of town. He left today for Boston. I join him on Thursday. I already am anxious to be with him. The entire hour and a half drive home I vented to him about the stories of the day (which I won't even get into), and he is NOT a phone person. Thursday cannot come quickly enough....