oh...joy!

[Sarlon]

soooo I was informed that I am going to the family reunion next year with my mom....

to see aunts and uncle and 2 cousins that I barely keep in contact with....and have little interest in seeing since they are all nuts...and thats saying something coming from me.

So...anyone in the Rochester, NY area that wants to save me from my family?...

anyone?

please?

[Bandit]

I sorta know your pain.

Next year, I'm supposed to be at a family reunion - with my birth family. Including sisters and mother I just met for the first time in October.

Nothing like finding out about relatives you have never known or seen. Even more fun when there's 42 years to catch up on all at once. <wibble>

I could use a weekend in NYC or just about anywhere else right about then.

B

[Kullervo]

I attended a family reunion on my fathers side when I was about 12 or so.
If everything goes according to my life plan it will never happen again.
Its made all the more easy that since my father died they kinda stopped talking to me.

[Misanthropical]

I always and I do mean always have other plans when my family reunions come up. I can't stand most of my family and would rather not expose my children to the stupidity that is their relatives.

The first time I went to a family reunion for my husbands' family they freaked me out with all the kissing on the cheek and hugging. I did not know before hand that is how most Italian families are. We went another time a month or so after I found out I was pregnant with the big guy and everyone was annoying me by rubbing my tummy. I wasn't even showing yet! I have grown use to them now.