Everybody always talks about how the days after Thanksgiving are the prime time for holiday leftovers, but I disagree. Those are the leftovers of only one meal. Christmas leftovers are the leftovers of Christmas Eve dinner, Christmas Day breakfast, Christmas Day dinner, and all the various cookies, pies, and fudges explicitly made for Christmas. I …
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‘You don’t shame or hide things that should be celebrated’: Mom lashes out when daughter-in-law announces pregnancy in front of her other, favorite daughter-in-law who has had trouble conceiving
Life is not fair. Sometimes good things happen to bad people, and sometimes bad things happen to good people. The universe can feel random and unwieldy with the way it doles out favors. But part of being a human is just going along for that ride, preparing for every case scenario, and not being too …
Seguir leyendo ‘You don’t shame or hide things that should be celebrated’: Mom lashes out when daughter-in-law announces pregnancy in front of her other, favorite daughter-in-law who has had trouble conceiving
Sister-in-law is booted from Christmas celebration after she tells woman’s 6-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son that Santa isn’t real: ‘You don’t get to ruin Christmas for my kids’
Whether you decide to tell your kids the truth about Santa when they’re 4 or 14, that’s up to you. But as people, we need to let parents make those types of decisions for themselves. It’s not up to other family members to drop the hard truth on kids, especially ones as young as four …
Seguir leyendo Sister-in-law is booted from Christmas celebration after she tells woman’s 6-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son that Santa isn’t real: ‘You don’t get to ruin Christmas for my kids’
‘All the siblings got checks for $350, so I don’t think a card was too much of an expectation’: Girlfriend of 3 years buys Christmas gifts for all of her boyfriend’s family members, his family doesn’t get her a single gift for the 2nd year in a row
Complaining about not getting presents always feels a little bit wrong, even when you’re in the right. You’ve always got the idea that nobody is entitled to presents running through your head, not to mention the training your parents gave you in childhood to always show gratitude for a gift no matter if you hate …
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26 Boxing Memes for Boxing Day
Happy Boxing Day, everybody! If you’re an ignorant American like me, you might’ve looked at the calendar on December 26th with confusion, wondering, «What the heck is Boxing Day?» The only holiday I knew of that was consistently on December 26th was Kwanza because that’s a holiday that was founded right here in the U …
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Family member refuses to bring dessert for Christmas dinner after traveling across country to get there in time, in-laws accuse them of being selfish: ‘Wow ok, everyone else is bringing food’
Ah, the holidays. Supposedly the most magical time of the year. A time when families come together, pretending they actually like each other for more than five minutes. But, in some cases like in the following story, relatives can’t even give that five-minute-long grace period leaving us unable to down the eggnog of holiday cheer. …
Seguir leyendo Family member refuses to bring dessert for Christmas dinner after traveling across country to get there in time, in-laws accuse them of being selfish: ‘Wow ok, everyone else is bringing food’
‘People ask for my opinion and get upset when I give my honest answer’: Man says he’s ‘not having fun’ on a hike with brother, brother calls out his brutal honesty
We all have to lie sometimes in order to grease the wheels of life. Part of being a human is not saying how we truly feel in order to spare the feelings of someone we love. Imagine if every time you get a gift you didn’t have much use for, you said «I don’t really …
Seguir leyendo ‘People ask for my opinion and get upset when I give my honest answer’: Man says he’s ‘not having fun’ on a hike with brother, brother calls out his brutal honesty
Dad allows his 5 and 7-year-old kids to open their Christmas presents before their mom woke up at 8:30, mom screams and cries at her husband: ‘I was completely deprived of the joy of seeing their faces when they open their presents’
I come from an open one-Christmas present-at-a-time family. I’m sure that that statement fills many of you with a shudder. I’ve seen so many posts about the horror of marrying into an everyone watches you for your reaction while you open your present family, but I cannot imagine doing it any other way. We only …
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The Best Heartwarmingly Wholesome Memes and Posts of the Week (December 26, 2024)
As many of us recover from the excesses of Christmas and look forward to a brand new year in just a few short days, a burst of wholesomeness is more needed than ever. It is easy to feel fatigued and even a little dismayed at how things have gone over the past twelve months, and …
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Mom sells her house and gives adult son a portion of the profit, only for him to immediately cut off contact with her, leaving her heartbroken: ‘He said I sold the house out from under him’
As children grow up, their relationship with their parents keeps constantly changing and remolding. The biggest change usually involves the dependency that parents and children have on one another. Until they are 18, kids are completely dependent on their parents as their entire life is in their parents’ hands. Then, usually, anywhere around the ages …
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