My dh wants us to have "the gorge" an annual get together of a couple of his school friends and their partners and his 3 brothers and their wives/partners for dinner a few days after Xmas this year. Another couple usually host it, but my dh thinks we should take our turn this year and have them all round to us.
Its going to be around 14 for a sit down meal and i am bloody dreading it.
Its 3 days after Xmas. My dh will say he is cooking the main course, (a curry) but invariably i will end up having to hang around clearing up the apocalyptic levels of mess and wash up he will create. He will fuss and fret about everything, and the worst thing is the other couple are total foodies and always produce an amazing spread, gorgeous desserts etc, whereas ours will be some dodgy curry and a bought (probably) dessert and will not impress at all.
We have 5 young kids, and this this other couple have none, and 3 of the other couples have no kids either, and all of the couples kids or not, are big big drinkers and will probably stay till at least 2 or 3am, before rolling home.
This is why i dread it. Its all the work and fuss beforehand, the fact that they will stay on and on for hours, long after i want to go to bed, and i feel that its rude to go to bed and leave the guests to it, though my dh will happily sit up with them. Then the next day we will be wrecked, hungover and with a mountain of wash up to do and the kids will want to be entertained.
I really just can't be arsed anymore. I want to sit on my bum in my own house and just enjoy being with the kids over the holiday and not have to sit up all night and listen to other people get really drunk and talk shite in my house till the small hours.
Flame away. i know i am prob being VV Unreasonable but i can't help it, that's just the way i feel. I wish i could say no to this party, but i can't as dh really wants to do this and really likes their company.
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Lisavarna · 09/12/2013 21:59
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