Holiday Traditions
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The worst Christmas ever: My wife's dad had passed away after a long illness the year before and my mother in law promptly remarried. So quickly that we realized most of the business trips she had been taking for a period of years were actually trips to visit her boyfriend…
She brought the new husband to the family Christmas dinner a few years later and it was an absolute shitshow...
They are both older and he was already dealing with the signs of Dementia and dealing with bowel incontinence. During dinner not knowing he should excuse himself from the table and go to the bathroom (dementia), he relieved himself at the dinner table. My sister in law who was quite intoxicated at this point could not hold back any comments. He was embarrassed and excused himself to go get cleaned up.
While in the bathroom he took off his underwear and proceeded to flush them down the toilet to get rid of the evidence. This as one could imagine, clogged the toilet. After some time, my mother in law went in to check if he was alright. She opened the door to the bathroom to discover him pant-less standing in the middle of the bathroom with water covering the floor. He was trying to unclog the toilet without any success.
My brother in law walked in to see if he could help, only to discover that his bathroom was now a disaster zone.
I could go on, but you can only imaging how the rest of the evening went...
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Man, what a Xmas dinner. I can't help but feel bad for the ole fella. And for everyone impacted by his issues. Hell, the whole story is sad, if darkly humorous @goosehd Hopefully none of that will become tradition
We got a ski in / ski out cabin for the family as our present to all of them (each of our parents and siblings, and my sister's family) but we couldn't do it ON Xmas, so it'll be more of a post-Xmas thru NYE deal. But in addition to my daughter's (first) birthday in a week, each of my nieces and nephew have birthdays within a couple of weeks of one another. So it will be a post Xmas / birthday party for the 4 younguns extravaganza for our families. I would like for this to become a tradition–we will see!
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So Santa's rocking those " Super Low Rise" pants this year?
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Please go on. This is amazing.
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Not really a tradition, but I found this when I was digging around for something else-
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@chris mine is on the tree right now [emoji847]
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The guy around the corner from my parents. It gets bigger each year.
He’s got mechanical figures that are better than those in shopping malls in addition to hundreds of blow molds.
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The two final (and most important), decorations:
My brother in law would definitely disagree! It's a great tree though and the Nephlings look like they're having fun.
On the subject of trees, my tradition has become telling myself around this sort of time that I'll put one up next year!
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Here’s a Baltimore tradition I’ll miss. In a magical place called Hampden they go batshit crazy on Xmas. They won’t even let you live on this bock unless you promise to do extravagant Xmas decorations. @Oaktavia do you guys go?
I've had friends who lived in Hampden…have not been there in some time. Sounds rad.
