we had minimal fighting (I'm talking about Morgan and Avery, now the adults on the other hand....)...delicious food...family together...and a TOTAL EXEMPTION card for me for all holiday chores...no warming food (no one ever asks me to cook anything...they have learned from experience)...no kitchen clean up...no trash take out...no wrapping paper pick up...I mean...cancer DOES have its advantages!
Here we are on Christmas Eve at my Bellanger in-law's house...
right now, you might be wondering, "well that's weird, Heather said "the Bellanger in-laws", must be chemo brain"....oh but no...while I have only been married once, my children are blessed with two sets of grandparents on the "Daddy side"...I also have "the Barthe in-laws"...for a while, my children could NOT figure it out...and now when I remind them that they have more grandparents to love them...they equate that to double the birthday presents...oh well, I tried...
but my family isn't the easiest to explain either....here is the Cliff Notes version....
here are my "sisters" on Christmas day...three DORKS...notice we all have the same sweater on...just three different colors - DORKS! here's the hard to explain part...Obviously that's me in the hat...next to me is Ashley....we share the same mom and dad, but that dad died when we were 12 and 8 respectively leaving Mom with the two of us...it's a wonder poor Mom still has a brain...Act Two...Mom remarries and we get Jen as a step-sister (and Jason as a step-brother)...Fast forward 10ish years and Mom and Act Two divorce...and I like to say "we got Jen in the divorce"...come on people...she lives in the compound!!! so for a while me and Ash called her "Ex-Step-Sister Jen" or "Quasi-Sis Jen", but that was just too long and required too much explanation, so that's why you just hear me say I have two sisters...
It's funny when my girls want to hear stories about when Nanny (Ashley) was a baby or stories about Zia (Jen) as a baby...they just don't get the concept....and I rationalize it the same way I do my in-laws, "more people to love you"...and we now how that registers in their minds...
here are just a few funny pictures from Christmas...
I hope your holiday was magical too!!
3 comments:
Babe, you look fab-u-lous!! Glad your holiday was good. Your family history is as convoluted as ours!!
I'm SO glad you equate magic with laziness!!
Love the pics! I need you to tell me how you get the collages in your blog like that.
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