I'm living in Houston with my mom's boyfriend, and last night we were talking about what we're gonig to be doing for the all-you-can-eat holiday. His parents always have Thanksgiving at their house, but last summer, they "lost" my dog, Pearl. Here's where the trouble begins. My mom refuses to go to their house because of this incident. Sure, I'm still pissed off that they basically got rid of my dog, but it's already happened, she's been gone for over a year, and I'm sure that Efrain's dad feels bad about it.However, in recent times, Efrain's mother has been really ill, and will probably be in bed the whole day and if I remember correctly, she wants Thanksgiving at her house anyway. Her other 4 children, though, are thinking about having it at one of their houses. The problem furthers here. My mom refuses to go to Lisa's house, one of the daughters. Lisa, for some reason, thought that Efrain was spending all his money on her, and for some reason that made her upset. I mean, God-forbid the only man paying the bills at his parents house is spending a little bit of cash on his girlfriend. =/ None of his siblings were helping pay the bills, except the occasional hospital bill for tests and s**t they requested for their mother. Lisa also blamed her mother's illness on my mom's two small Yorkies. Which is total bullshit since Yorkshire Terriers are known to be hypo-allegenic. So one night, his mother slept alone in her room, I slept in Efrain's room by myself, without MY dog, since, God-forbid, she might get his mother sick, his father slept in the spare bedroom currently used by another son, who slept on the leather couch in the living room, while my mom and Efrain slept on a fold-out couch in the front living area.
Anyone see the bullshit in that? And guess what?! The mother's illness had nothing to do with the dogs. So that is the background story. Onto the problem.
Knowing my mom will not go to his parents house or to Lisa's house for Thanksgiving, Efrain and I have to deal with that. If it's at his parents house, it's almost certain that none of her other kids will show up, and it will be one lonely Thanksgiving. If it's going to be at Lisa's house, it's questionable if she'll actually invite Efrain, and if she does, will she invite me and/or my mom.
My mother's plan for Thanksgiving, should we leave to have Thanksgiving at his mother's or sister's is to possibly volunteer at a homeless shelter, crying into their gravy. =/ She may or may not have been joking about this, as I'm fairly certain she's bi-polar and hasn't been diagnosed...
Now, the question I pose to you is this. If invited to his parents or his sister Lisa's for Thanksgiving, should we go and leave my mother behind in an empty apartment with 3 dogs or stay behind and have our own Thanksgiving?
Granted, this answer you give shouldn't be based on the food that'll be there.
