well, here we go...
how does one schedule insanity and place all the inmates?
i have been on the phone with the brother, the aunt and uncle, the cousins trying to figure out how to do the xmas schedule for xmas week.
things are not working out the way i would like. gee, some surprise there...
conflicts and problems for the week are as follows:
xmas day-thursday. must leave the beach and take austin back to bebo by 2pm. there austin will stay for who knows how long. he has to be with his father, but no one knows how long. more on that later
xmas eve-wednesday.family dinner at zia marias. xmas eve day may be the only time to get together with warnie, aunt grace and ted. previous years we have eaten chinese at warnies, but she doesn't live there anymore. not sure what will happen and where with that, but something will. but when? my suggestion would be to meet for dinner or food somewhere that day near her nursing home, but that is yet to be determined. toddy suggested that they come over on...
tuesday 12/23: when the family lasagna gets made and eaten. but ted is a vegetarian and the sauce has meat in it and meatballs. my mother gripes about aunt grace trying to make sure he has vegetarian before he gets there and this irks my mother. why, i don't know as i was a vegetarian for 10 years and it didn't seem to be a problem with me doing it, only ted. and ted is too nice to mention it. it is the fact that aunt grace demands it (in my mother's opinion.) it just irritates my mother and we already have tension in that area anyway.
also on tuesday is xmas dinner at brenda/danny/olivia davis' home...in richmond. can't be in two places at one time. we have always gone there for the last 5 years and i actually look forward to that one. but i think that isn't going to work out now, since we would only have xmas day down there and austin doesn't want to go for just one day.
monday 12/22: the cousins have suggested something new for the family, which is a progressive dinner starting with drinks/appetizers at uncle bert and aunt nancy's house. then the main meal at amy's house and dessert at susan's house. that doesn't have to happen, and depends a lot on when my brother shows up, another whole deal.
i called the bro and said make up your mind, so as of a couple of hours ago he was going to drive. that makes it easier for him to come and go when he wants, which may be that he can come home later and stay longer. if he stays longer, could the lasagna dinner be postponed until after xmas? but that also can be a problem, in that what amount of time is austin going to spend with his father and when? we know that xmas day he will have to be there, and that is ok. but what about the next day? the cousins can't switch the time for the progressive, we don't know when the bro is coming, i have the conflict on tuesday, and amy/todd and jack are leaving for tennessee and todd's family the day AFTER xmas.
it is waaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy too complicated. and i haven't bothered to float any of this to my mother yet, which probably will be the usual disaster. as my brother said, it doesn't matter anyway what we do, because she likes to control xmas. he and i did agree that we would not fight with each other. that certainly is good considering the disaster of last xmas.
somewhere in here i have to decide if i am going to do anything holiday oriented here...sigh.
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