No more happy dance

[nwhiker]

Last week, I was doing the Thanksgiving Happy Dance.

See, my MIL screwed up and told SIL that we were having T-Day in Bend with my sis, and Christmas here. SIL promptly found a friend to invite her over for T-Day (not thinking at all about my MIL, of course, or asking her what her plans were).

I was doing a happy dance. Not having SIL at a family event is always a treat. She's annoying, boring, her son is nowhere near as cool when she's around, and she always upsets my food planning.

But then SIL found out that it was the opposite and we'd be here. She promptly cancelled with her friend and will grace us with her presence.

No more happy dance.

At least I have a few days' notice, I found out just before bed last night. Can't expand the brisket, alas, but I'll expand some other things, add an appy, and repeat the mantra "'No' is a complete sentence" for when she asks if she can "bring a plate" to friends of hers who "don't have anywhere to be" (*) etc. I hate having to do that, but while I can usually give leftovers a miss, this year dh is looking forward to brisket for a few days, and the kids to leftovers during dead week and finals. I mean, my plan this year is that dh or I will make a box for MIL and SIL and if SIL wants to give hers to her friend, that's her problem, but she's not taking everyone else's leftovers to distribute. LOL.

Now I need an appy.

(*) I finally had enough of her playing Lady Bountiful with leftovers in 2020. I made two separate T-Day dinners, one for us, one for SIL, nephew, and MIL. I'm talking complete turkey here. Plenty of food for the three of them AND leftovers for at least the next day. SIL took everything, MIL only got the leftover pumpkin pie. SIL played the "friends with nowhere to go" card. The texts were hilarious... Oh wait. Here: that year's whine of mine. And yes, MIL complained bitterly about having no leftovers because SIL took them all.

ETA She would like us to hold dinner until 7:30PM/19:30, and to invite our music teacher. Her son now takes lessons with the music teacher and SIL wants everyone to 'jam'. WTF, she doesn't even play, and yes, R is pretty good, but puleeze, asking us to invite-- NM. As my sister said, she's nuts, ignore her. Dh pretty much said the same.