Thanksgiving was great it was just DH, our toddler and me. We briefly talked to the In-laws on Thanksgiving day who had gathered all together for their own party (10+ people). Our Thanksgiving was stress free and we agreed that not seeing them was definitely the right choice. Also a perfectly cooked prime rib for two didn't hurt either. A smaller gathering means fancier food!

SD12 did not respond to any thing that my DH sent to her on Thanksgiving day. Usually she will give him at least a text or a 2 minute call especially will Christmas coming. But there was nothing and my husband was a little sad about it. 

Now, my meddlesome SIL is picking up SD next weekend to bring her to see all of my in-laws and then to come see us. I told my husband again that he needs to get her out of the middle of custody. I told him that he should be the one to go get SD and then they can spend some time one-on-one, but he doesn't want to make the 5-Hour round trip to get her because to be frankly he doesn't really want to get her if she won't even respond to his messages. It's not that hard and she's on he phone all the time. He knows it's a game and he doesn't want to play.

SIL loves drama and games so she is getting SD next Friday taking her to see all the in-laws and then coming up to our house to decorate for Christmas and all that. Wonderful, she's going to be coming up nine days after Thanksgiving which is a perfect exposure window if somebody got covid in one of the many fu*king bubbles they all interacted with over Thanksgiving. I'm not happy about it because I'm pregnant. We should have just done Thanksgiving with the whole bunch because this negates us staying away and doing our own.

We were going to decorate for Christmas and now we have to put it off until next weekend to do it all together. Ugh wonderful I can't wait for SD and SIL to decorate with all my stuff and then take tons of selfies with my toddler to share on their social media where we aren't even connected. 

But it's all ok because it's only SIL and SD12 so it's a "small group" which is one of my Covid avoidance precautions. Yeah but these two people saw A LOT of other people this week. 

Sometimes I just wish I could get Covid and get it over with. 

Even more annoying is SD is suddenly messaging DH again, but it's all shallow vapid things like "I miss you daddy" over and over (um, obviously not since you never respond) and then just sweet dreams and good morning, nothing of substance and she won't take a facetime call because then she will actually have to talk about something. DH might as well be texting with a bot.