Christmas day

Uncle and aunt Y2 gave us a box of brandy chocolate as Christmas gift the other day. Aunt Y suggested that we should bring it over to (re-gift to) brother today. I didn't care, but mom hated the idea. Seems like she wanted to keep it but couldn't say so. Instead, she was saying the smaller size package has been recalled (because of missed ingredient on the list) and not available anymore. Why can't she just say she wants it? On the other hand, aunt Y did not seem to think she had done anything wrong. I did told her what I thought, though. No apology or comments as usual. She's like dad, and thinks she's always right. That's why they clash a lot.

Did this near-loosing-the-chocolate incident shook mom up so much, that she missed to check dad on our way out? She noticed dad wasn't wearing a coat when we were on our way to pick up aunt L. Since she's the biggest in size, aunt Y who always takes the front passenger seat was supposed to move to the back. While mom went inside aunt L's house, I suggested to aunt Y that it might be time for her to move. But she said it was too early. Turn out she wanted mom to sit in the middle, and blame it on mom. I think it's simply that she doesn't want to sit right next to dad. Can't blame her. Dad almost always smell like pee. But not this morning. Mom made sure he was clean. Anyway, aunt L came, and I'm not sure who brought it up first, but she was scolding mom for not keeping an eye on dad for not wearing a coat. Yes yes yes, when uncle L passed away, she had a very hard time. Perhaps she just wanted to show off her expertise. She used to be a nurse too. Poor mom. I couldn't say a thing back to defense her.

When we got to brother's house, they had dad sit at the dinning table which already had some finished dishes. He tried to take some food, was stopped, and then masked it by saying he was just taking chopsticks. Yeah, he then took 3 pairs. Sigh... (T_T) Where did he think he was? A restaurant??? I just couldn't deal with this, or anything he does in general. Mom went to sit with him at the table to keep an eye. The two aunts sat on the living room sofa and talk about dad. That's super weird. Me? Didn't want to sit with any of them. Nothing to help out in the kitchen either, so I sat on the piano bench to read a magazine and looked at the guinea pigs near by every-now-and-then.

Christmas lunch at brother's. It so happens that niece N was born on Christmas day, so it's also her birthday party. She has some classmates and friends over. Poor sis-in-law was so busy making tons of food. Way too much. She gave us some to take home.

Mom had been pressing to leave as soon as we finished eating, evening forgetting there was still the birthday cake. The kids just finished eating too and didn't want the cake so soon. So what happened was, the cake was cut first, we ate first, and the kids ate later. Sigh... mom is always like that. She's so good at ruining the fun.

It was late afternoon when we got home. The clouds and rain helped making it dark or the sun was actually setting. (We just had the winter solstice too.) Tried to clean up some blog stuff and kept dosing off all the way till dinner time. Was hoping to pay A a visit but didn't have enough energy to drive in the rain at night. No sleeping over, then. I hope A is not too disappointed. Hope tomorrow's boxing day shopping plan would work out.