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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m finally getting around to me petty vent. My parents “hosted”. I ended up cooking the entire meal by myself (my mom spent 2 hours online shopping, my sister helped with the kids but the spent the rest of the time sitting on the couch on her phone, and I’m not sure what my dad was doing). My husband came down the day of thanksgiving (parents live 6 hrs away and we came down a few days before). Everyone was dressed in their thanksgiving dress, on the couch and I was in the kitchen still in my sweats cooking.

After dinner was 2 hrs late, I cleaned and washed all the dishes.

And yes, I did use my words. Multiple times I said can you help woth X, I still need to take a shower. It all fell on deaf ears. At one point I asked my sister if she could finish the dishes when I was putting the kids to sleep. I came back out and she was still on her phone and a single dish hadn’t been washed. 
The reason for the 2 hr delay in dinner, my mom had said she was going to make it and then I guess decided not to and didn’t tell anyone. I saw the time and realized nothing had been done and did everything. 
The cherry on top, was when my dad came in the kitchen, he had just taken a shower and gotten dressed and said “don’t forget the corn” right after I said I still need to take a shower. [/quote]

That’s not even petty, that’s just unfair to you. I would book a vacation for next thanksgiving already. [/quote]

I would stay at home and do your own thing next year OP, or go on a trip somewhere else. [/quote]

Oh trust me that’s the plan. Next year we will go to in-laws but I think it’s the last year for travel. I called my youngest sister who didn’t come out and we couldn’t stop laughing at how horrible the whole thing was. It was just a maddening day. [/quote]

NP. Why didn’t you at the very least just leave the dishes—you should have literally just left them as-is, and if they were still there the next morning, taken your nuclear family off to have breakfast out.[/quote]

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