My real brother is about 45 minutes away. And we're both about 4 hours from my Mom, step-dad and step-sister/cousin and step/brother-cousin.
But speaking of dysfunctional families, gotta run to rehearsal.
That's our Christmas story this year. Trying to reach young families.
It starts with a "perfect" Christmas that ends in disaster, then the little girl falls asleep as "Nana" reads Mother Goose...guess where she "wakes up?" That's right with Mother Goose and all the characters. They give the little girl a rhyme of her own. When she wakes up, she tells her story to "Nana" (the same actress who plays Mother Goose), and Nana says "that reminds me of another one of my favorite stories" and she goes on to start the Christmas story and the set morphs into Bethlehem...
Gotta run...see y'all later.