Blog 8

Hello Again! 

First and foremost Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! I hope everyone had a great holiday and spent a lot of time eating. This week the post I decided that I would like to talk about how stressful hosting a Thanksgiving can be and how a family invasion can cause serious conflict. Like every year and I might as well say every day my mom and I are responsible for cooking dinner while everyone else just hangs around and does nothing. Well at least until their stomach starts getting hungry and then they invade the kitchen and send me and my mom into complete fits because we get a plan set out roughly 3 weeks before Thanksgiving, We had it all very organized and we had a set that that made our cooking flow very smoothly. When everyone starts invading and my dad starts thinking that he is in charge me and my mom just ran straight outside and away from the mess that we know is going to happen that we now have to clean before we can we can finish cooking. I found this entertaining because it took something so small to make both me and my mom freak out and have to actually leave the area where everyone else was at. It made me realize that my mom and I have the same idea when it comes to dealing with a mass of people that want to invade our “space” for lack of better word. The best part though was that we went out two different doors to get to the garage and when we ran (literally) into each other we scared the day lights out of each other, we noticed that neither of us were upstairs we ran to get back to the kitchen which was a good thing seeing as how my dad had started to use certain items that were set aside for other sides that were being made.  Besides the fact that this caused a lot of conflict there was also the issue of my uncle who for some reason has serious paranoia that every person is out to get him and that they will stop at nothing to get to him. He is also so set in his way that no matter how many facts you give about any topic he has a solid opinion about it and that will not ever change. I decided the best way to deal with this after three days of dealing was to just avoid him and not even put about with him because it will start a conflict that is best avoided. 

Stephanie