I'm so mad at my sister I could spit! (okay step-sister cousin if you've followed my family history). My first cousins on my dad's side have always been close. Most of us grew up in the same town with the rest spending the summers there.
We lost our first cousin this summer to cancer. She was 60. Since there are only two aunts left (out of nine brothers and sisters), we've wanted to have a cousin reunion.
So, it took months to decide on October. We wanted to do next weekend, 'cause it's a three-day weekend (both the Mrs. and Corin Jr. don't have school on that Monday and I'm off from work). But my sister had to have it the following weekend so her husband wouldn't have to work (I think I've already ranted about the fact that he works 7-3).
I find out last night that the dinner where everyone gets together will be at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 19 because my step-brother/cousin is photographing a wedding that night and couldn't make an evening dinner.
We're in the midst of key rehearsals (with the choreographer who flies in from New York) that we would have to miss. We've made those arrangements, but we plan to skip family church (another looooooong story) and be back for rehearsals on Sunday.
But our problem is that Corin, Jr. has a football game on Saturday. We can't get away from Richmond before 1:00 p.m. at the earliest and it's a four-hour drive.
We're just not going. I hate it, but I won't put my family through that torture of a trip on the off chance that I "might" see some of my cousins that evening.
And, I'll tell them why.
Okay, somebody tell me I'm being unreasonable.
Okay, you're bein' unreasonable...
FWIW, I think your doin' the right thing, so you might want to reconsider...