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NO family vacay with OSS this year!! (Long)

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I seriously cannot believe I'm writing this, but, for the first time in many years, our family vacay where we pay for, cook for, wait on, and clean up after OSS29, SDIL, and 2 SGDs DID NOT HAPPEN!  As my past blogs show, following the wise advice of many here, I've been in the process of disengaging from these slave fests for a couple years, doing less and less and letting DH do all the catering to them. The last straw for me was when my precious aunt who was like a mother to me died at the end of last year and neither OSS29 nor youngest SS27 said anything to me.

Annual family vacay update (l

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I've been trying to find time to post about the annual family vacay at our lake house a couple weeks ago, but things have been so crazy busy. I started one post and it was so long I never finished. Lol. A couple interesting things. It was scheduled to be a "long weekend" of 5 days (Sat-Weds) but SS28 left on Tuesday, and his DW left on Monday, as her sister was keeping their new puppy that was not housebroken (did we allow it at our lakehouse?

So upset I’m shaking

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My usually calm, cool, DH just lost it and went crazy, throwing a glass against the wall, knocking a candle holder off the wall and damaging our hard wood floor and turning over a chair in our basement, causing the seat to fly off. Why, you ask? All because I told him I was sick of SSs treating him like a piece of sh*t while exalting BM like a queen.

DH’s Thanksgiving dilemma

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I've finally removed myself from the planning with SKS, and I'm happy about that! We are having Thanksgiving at our lake house this year. DH decided to invite SSs 27 and 25 and family/wives, since our lake house is nearly 2 hours' drive closer to each of them than our home. Cool. SS25 actually responded he and his DW will be there. Fantastic. SS27 responds they already have plans to eat at SDIL's BM (also a few minutes from BM and her parents/ clan) but they will try to come see us another day that weekend.

Finally as it should be

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When I last blogged in July after the "family vacation" at our lake house, I said we probably would not have any contact with SS27 until youngest SGD's birthday this month. Turns out not only did we not hear from him, but DH reached out to SS27 about the birthday. SGD7's birthday fell on a weekend that we were out of state due to Parent's Weekend at DS20's school. SS27 posted numerous pics on social media of her "birthday weekend" with BM, including fall festivities and her party.

Bday party for SGD6

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Since I last blogged, my hubby and I purchased the lake house I mentioned and have been working to get settled in (taking forever since we're only there on weekends.) This past weekend, we had our first gathering, a small birthday party for SGD6. Unlike prior parties, DH was heavily involved. He communicated with SS26 about the party and ordered and wrapped all the gifts. Unlike prior years, I bought no elaborate decorations, custom birthday banner, etc. My contribution was ordering a partially decorated cake that I then added a couple toys to and ordering pizza for delivery.

OMG, is there no end to the selfishness?

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Seriously, does this not take the cake? SS26 announced to DH and me that he, SDIL and SGDs were going out to an ice cream shoppe for lunch & ice cream. After DH and I have acted as servers all week, taking their dinner orders, calling them in, and then carting our happy @sses all over the area each evening picking it up and paying for it, do you think SS26 would even ASK if we wanted to go, or ask if they could bring us back something?! H*LL NO! And we would have given them money and not expected them to pay for ours.

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