08:28 PM
La Familia Festive Festivities

If you're going to tell someone it's completely optional when you ask them to do something, then don't be all upset if they say no. :) My brother is doing Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve tomorrow at 6pm, his choice, it's his first Christmas and he's living back in the house he grew up in and I've helped him get their tree (which they still haven't decorated) and get the tables and chairs today (because they have no furniture except two couches that my mom gave them when they moved in the house) (and I'll have to help take the tables and chairs back on Thursday probably) and he calls me up and says right off that this is completely optional, I don't have to do it and asks if I can help out.

After a bit of prodding, he wants help with food and decorating the tree and wants me to come at the crack of noon! Understand that's early for me, I stay up late and sleep later, I don't have a kid to pry me out of bed at 7 am and I already did the get up early and help with all the food at Thanksgiving, I did all sorts of stuff the night before till 1 am and then got up at the crack of dawn to do more of it. So I was figuring on coasting for this holiday. After I dig out of him that mom is coming over at 10 am, I tell him I'll come by 3pm but sheesh, I'm not spending six hours over there before dinner, there's just no way there's that much to do, he's not doing the fancy turkey thing we did, just beef and vegetables and mom and he and his wife (who mom keeps telling me can cook) can do this stuff.

And I am so not into Christmas this year.