SIL Cancelled family Christmas the day before. Am I right to be a little frustrated? Should I say something to them?
So for about 4 months we’ve been planning to get together with my husbands family on Christmas Day. My dad is of Jewish faith and my birth mom lives out of country. However, we were invited to my brothers and we were also invited to my grandmothers (amazingly still alive and well at 96) to celebrate Christmas and turned both of those down so my daughter could enjoy Christmas Day with her younger cousins and husbands family and we could kind of do this annual Christmas Day Prime Rib that we’ve done for almost 10 years. Well… the day before Christmas my SIL tells my husbands parents she’s too busy and can’t make it because of her in laws.. and so the hubs parents decide to move Christmas to another day.. basically leaving us without a Christmas Day celebration to go to.. had we had notice of this we would’ve made plans with what little family I do have…His parents event is like the only semblance of family Christmas our children would have had this year, and if we had known we would’ve made other plans with my side of the family.. but the truth is, it’s too late.. so I’m going out and buying a ham and roast etc and now will impromptly working to create a Christmas for our little family.. but I’m annoyed and frustrated that basically Christmas Day was cancelled the day before and we are now scrambling and it’s too late to make plans with my side of the family …I even bought all this stuff and invited his parents to come over since it was cancelled and they said they didn’t want to drive… and so basically now we will be spending Christmas Day without any extended family at all.. and I’m sad about that. And so are my kids. Would it be wrong of me to say “hey maybe next year we can work to plan this a little better so our kiddos don’t go without extended family for Christmas Day..” ? is that a valid point to bring up?
Nobody seems to understand my point of view.. but the truth is, my daughter is over here now asking me why she won’t see grandma and grandpa or her cousins on Christmas Day.. and that breaks my heart.
Am I right to think this way, and furthermore say something about it to his family?
Nobody seems to understand my point of view.. but the truth is, my daughter is over here now asking me why she won’t see grandma and grandpa or her cousins on Christmas Day.. and that breaks my heart.
Am I right to think this way, and furthermore say something about it to his family?