Just call me Martha...

This pregnancy has done something completely and totally bizarre to me... it has given me this intense desire to cook real meals and entertain family every weekend!!

In the past month, I have made homemade Italian wedding soup twice, tacos for 15 people, and a from-scratch lasagna! All of these meals were for either my whole family or Jerry's whole family, depending on the weekend. And, if you can believe this, I volunteered to have Thanksgiving at my house!

Now, let me just tell you that this so far out of the ordinary for me, and I don't quite think the family knows how to react to all of this. They are definitely enjoying all the food I am cooking, but this all just doesn't fit with the "Mandy" they know... It's throwing everything slightly off.

The Thanksgiving thing may or may not happen, depending on how stupid my aunt chooses to be... You see she has 4 kids - one mature 18-year-old daughter, and 3 younger hellion boys. She is not supporting this Thanksgiving move because she "doesn't feel comfortable having her boys in her new house." Yeah, well that's because she doesn't want to have to actually watch her children... because when she's at my grandma's house, she lets them run around and do whatever they want and destroy things and act like idiots until someone else yells at them. They are all extremely horribly behaved, and honestly I completely blame it on their lazy, inconsistent parenting.

Now, just so you know, when I volunteered to do Thanksgiving it was driven by this weird pregnancy cooking thing, but also because my grandma really doesn't want to do it anymore. She has Lupus and she had a bad heart attack a few years ago, and she just doesn't feel up to it. And when she was out at my house last weekend for tacos, she hinted around about having it at my house. I, of course, am not keen on having the yellion boys at my house either, but Jerry and I discussed it and said we would make some changes down in the basement and hook up a TV down there so they could bring the X-Box and whatever and we would make it work... I am completely annoyed at my aunt for thinking in such selfish terms and for the fact that she cannot control her children and that they are so badly behaved that she cannot bring them to a civilized Thanksgiving dinner. I'm sure this debate will continue until it is decided on whether or not we will have it at my house...

In my old house, we had Christmas there a couple of times and she was always the same way about it, and it was always fine. Pain in the ass. Learn how to control your children!