Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve is always interesting here in my house. Mostly because my family is a blended family. Z lives with me and my husband and my husband's daughter lives with her mother. His parents are divorced and mine....thank goodness ARE still married.

I give Z the decision to spend Christmas Eve with his family up to him. As far as I am concerned he is old enough to make that decision. He always decides to go to his grandfather's house, which is usually fine with me, but not fine with my husband. This year however, I had a slight problem with it too. Z has always been sort of the black sheep of the family, lucky to see his grandparents once during the summer, always on Christmas Eve and if he is lucky, he will get a call on his birthday. His father however, has chosen not to have anything to do with him for the last 4 years or so. The only time he has seen him is on Christmas Eve when the whole family gets together.

Last Christmas his father was in jail..got caught not once, but twice drinking and driving. The amusing part of all that.. IT WAS IN THE SAME NIGHT!! Can we say IDIOT!! Very obvious that Z did not see him that year. So now it has been two years since he has seen his dad and the asshole could not even say hello to his own kid!!! He was in the same hous with him for four hours and did not say one word to him, not one! What kinda shit is that??