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This Christmas doesn't feel much like Christmas to me. I've been working too long and coming home too exhausted and stressed to care much about the season. And I still have so much to do.
And now I get this news. I've been telling Mike for MONTHS that since we're spending Christmas Day on Bell Island with his family this year, we only have Boxing Day to see MY family. My parents are going to be busy Boxing Day evening (they get together with friends of the family every year, and this year it is at their friend's house), so the plan was to see my parents around lunch time (so I can sleep in for the first time in a month, especially since Christmas Day is going to be SO rushed trying to open our presents, pick up Mike's brother, take the ferry to Bell Island all before lunch) and then have supper at my grandparents. I was really looking forward to this because my grandfather can't leave the house anymore and I probably won't get to see him otherwise.
Anyway, Mike was supposed to request the 26th off, but when I asked him about it last night (after reminding him a million times) he told me he forgot to do it. And now the schedule is up and he's working it. OF COURSE. So the options are: neither of us see my family, we see one part of my family but not the other (parents vs grandparents, how can I choose? Especially since my grandma was SO happy we were going to be coming for dinner), I go alone. This sucks. This is the first year I won't be opening presents with my family on Christmas Day, and now it looks like I might not get to open presents with my family at all. The next time Mike and I will be free on the same day to go over is New Year's Day, but we have a big family dinner on that day and my parents are usually too busy to do anything during the day. It's just really really irritating that I reminded him SO many times and he didn't do it. He first tried to tell me that I had never mentioned anything happening on the 26th, but once I reminded him about several arguments we had regarding it he "remembered".
Just...ugh. The only thing I really like about Christmas is that it's the one time of the year that all of my family is together. But I'm going to be missing out on the big Christmas dinner with my parents and my brother and my grandparents and my cousins and uncles because I will be in Bell Island. And now it looks like I'm going to be missing out on more.
And now I get this news. I've been telling Mike for MONTHS that since we're spending Christmas Day on Bell Island with his family this year, we only have Boxing Day to see MY family. My parents are going to be busy Boxing Day evening (they get together with friends of the family every year, and this year it is at their friend's house), so the plan was to see my parents around lunch time (so I can sleep in for the first time in a month, especially since Christmas Day is going to be SO rushed trying to open our presents, pick up Mike's brother, take the ferry to Bell Island all before lunch) and then have supper at my grandparents. I was really looking forward to this because my grandfather can't leave the house anymore and I probably won't get to see him otherwise.
Anyway, Mike was supposed to request the 26th off, but when I asked him about it last night (after reminding him a million times) he told me he forgot to do it. And now the schedule is up and he's working it. OF COURSE. So the options are: neither of us see my family, we see one part of my family but not the other (parents vs grandparents, how can I choose? Especially since my grandma was SO happy we were going to be coming for dinner), I go alone. This sucks. This is the first year I won't be opening presents with my family on Christmas Day, and now it looks like I might not get to open presents with my family at all. The next time Mike and I will be free on the same day to go over is New Year's Day, but we have a big family dinner on that day and my parents are usually too busy to do anything during the day. It's just really really irritating that I reminded him SO many times and he didn't do it. He first tried to tell me that I had never mentioned anything happening on the 26th, but once I reminded him about several arguments we had regarding it he "remembered".
Just...ugh. The only thing I really like about Christmas is that it's the one time of the year that all of my family is together. But I'm going to be missing out on the big Christmas dinner with my parents and my brother and my grandparents and my cousins and uncles because I will be in Bell Island. And now it looks like I'm going to be missing out on more.