Might boycott Thanksgiving

[Kate*]

Long story short, my frustration with my grandmother has reached it's breaking point and she has uninvited most of the family because she insists on making the holidays harder on herself than they have to be. She can't really do things the way she used to, but refuses to go to someone else's house and she's just being completely frustrating and unreasonable and now she's "uninviting" the people who do the most for her so she doesn't have to do as much work instead of just letting someone else do it like most of us have offered to do a million times. I told my mom as soon as the uninviting was threatened that I wouldn't feel comfortable going because it doesn't seem fair that my mom and I and my one aunt and Uncle get to go and no one else just because she says we have "nowhere else to go" (my parents are divorced and my mom is single so no in-laws to go to and my dad's in California) and even then she's making more work for herself than necessary; she's frying chicken! Mom says I can fake sick and stay home if I want, but she's going without me. Honestly sitting home alone on Thanksgiving sounds better than going and having to deal with her attitude and the family drama.

The traditional Christmas is over with too at least for this year, no gift exchange just the money my grandma always gives us and whatever we give her, nothing else. She says she doesn't want my uncle to feel bad because he's unemployed and they said they can't afford it and we aren't going to do it without them because she doesn't want them to feel left out. I understand completely, but it just sucks.