frustrations

i know i haven't been updating as often as i want to be but life's just been crazy busy lately. especially since my family has 3 times a year that practically every weekend is spent doing some sort of family meal. these times happen from mothers day right to the middle of july (this one includes: mother's day, a cousin's birthday, father's day, my grandma's birthday, my sister's birthday, canada day and my mom's birthday), then there's all of september with 5 birthdays and ends with thanksgiving, and finally christmas. this happens to be one of those times and its usually when i get very frustrated and tired of my family to where i don't want to be around them for a couple months.

this year is particularly bad since we're planning my mom's 50th surprise party so dealing with family to plan has proven difficult. my sister and i have gone to our aunt to help us, not take over the planning which she has done. it's to a point that i don't want to talk to her about it because she either complains about something we did or she talks forever about stuff that doesn't really matter. she's already ruined the surprise aspect after we already had a plan in place to make sure the guest of honour would be at her party and that her friends would be invited. apparently she wasn't there when we had this conversation at her house. the invitations weren't out yet and i told my aunt that i would ask my sister what the hold up was and find out when she would get them out. she then took it upon herself, even though i told her i would do it, to call my sister about the invitations so she ended up feeling bullied and kind of hastily made them (which i still think they were done nicely). my aunt then made a big deal about them because she wasn't sent the draft to make sure it had everything in it (which probably should've been done so we don't have to send out a revised invite, but that's besides the point) and then wasn't happy with the way it looked. she wanted it to look like one of the email invites we get from another aunt for all their bdays.

the only reason we even asked her to help us was because we needed to have the party at her house since she has the best yard/setup out of the family to host it. she then took control from there. i don't even want to plan it anymore, but i have to because then i'll feel guilty. i guess i should work on that invitation getting resent with revised info.....

urgh!!! x10000