Thanksgiving with my family was awesome this year. Of course, we can't go two holidays in a row without my dad getting in some sort of dispute with someone in the immediate family. This year he's mad at my sister for not coming home early enough on Christmas Eve. On the surface, it would seem that he is in the right because family should be together for this holiday. However, my sister has a grand total of 48hrs to spend in San Jose before she has to work another shift at a department store, and she wanted to see her best friend too. Her best friend's family invited her to their Christmas Eve dinner, so she accepted. My dad told her that she should do what she wanted (in a very nice, sincere-sounding tone). Then, come 10pm, he started saying loudly, "If they're more important to her than we are, then she should just stay there!" He then proceeded to storm off to bed without so much as a 'goodnight' to me, and leaving my mom to call my sister and tell her to come home.
Great.
Well, she came home and at first was just angry. After she and I talked for a bit she calmed down and now I think she sees why our dad was hurt that she wasn't here. He wanted her to want to be with our family more than with another family. Yes, he should have told her that he preferred to have her here, but if she even had to ask him what he thought in the first place then she should have shown more consideration and come home early.
Now I am going to try to sleep, knowing that Christmas this year is unlikely to be very Merry at all.
