Well.... January is fast approaching. That's when my husband and I are planning on renewing our wedding vows, on our 10th anniversary. We have the hall booked, the menu planned, my dress bought, the invites sent out. Pretty much everything is going as planned..... until I get a phone call from my father. He and his entire side of his family are not planning on showing up. They all hate him for the crap he has put me and my kids through (he has been to jail a couple times), and went so far as to tell me that they would show up if I was marrying anyone other than my husband, even if it was Charles Manson. I almost expected them to not want to be there..... but I thought it would be to avoid my mother, that they also hate. And now come to find out.... not only is my father's entire side of my family not coming, my mother is more than likely not coming either.

Everyone that has been invited knows what my husband has done, and understands that I am standing by him, and that he has FINALLY learned his lesson. My family seems to be the only ones that are staying away. My friends and co-workers are all eager to come and celebrate with us. And alot of them have told me to tell my family to F**K off, that they are my family now. But it still hurts. I haven't always liked the decisions they have all made, or the people they have been with..... But I have supported them, and let them make their own choices. And trust me, my family members are far from angels. So I don't feel they have any right to judge my husband and hate him for his past mistakes. I just hope they look back and feel like jackasses for not coming, and then feel worse when they get an email of pictures showing just how much fun we are all going to have and how happy everyone is.

Ok..... I guess I am done ranting, for now any way.