Home for the Holidays!

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This is the time of year where everyone gathers together, eats, drinks and pretends to be merry. Some of us are forced against our will to spend excruciating hours with our family members, while others actually enjoy spending time with their family. Either way, we DEAL. When you throw people together who are supposed to love each other unconditionally, and then you put on the added pressure of expecting them all to be JOYFUL- that can be a lot of pressure. What is like when YOU'RE home for the holidays??? Is it all peachy keen or absolute mayhem??

My family is the Griswold's

It’s always Christmas Vacation in my house:

Clark (a.k.a DAD): “Where do you think you’re going? Nobody’s leaving. Nobody’s walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas. No, no. We’re all in this together. This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here. We’re gonna press on, and we’re gonna haVe the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny f***ing Kaye. And when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight, he’s gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse.”

We got to blows over politics

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There's always a poltical fight:

Sometimes, no matter how much you love each other, when you get people in a room (with alcohol) and you make them sit together for an extended amount of time, your viewpoints are naturally going to start coming out…..especially as the evening gets a little bit more boozy.

It’s been a tradition in my household to tell at least one person that you are “astounded by their ignorance.” when it come to politics AND religion……

But it’s all out of love.

Someone refuses to pray at the dinner table

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This is uncomfortable for so many reasons- first of, sometimes if the prayer is too religious i.e. quotes from the bible etc, etc. that stresses me out, but I don’t like to skip the prayer completely. It’s also incredibly uncomfortable when you have to join hands with someone and skip over the refusing person in between you….should you say, excuse my reach in a situation like that?

 

Someone ALWAYS gets TOO drunk

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This is usually followed by crying, screaming, excessive eating and spilling red wine on white carpet.

The person I'm dating get's interrogated

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I love bringing people that I date around my family, after all I actually do LOVE my family….and I want the person I’m with to love them too. It’s a little difficult when you father, uncles and cousins (all very protective and BIG) make him feel like he’s part of an intense interrogation. Getting mean mugged across the dinner table is a little uncomfortable.

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chelsea Rss 

Manhattan, New York
Writer. Coast Hopper. Perpetual Dreamer and Achiever. Student of life and Manhattan adventuress... And just in case you're wondering, gangsta rap made me do it.

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