Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all-- I hope everyone is having a great holiday season. I am not having a bad one, actually, except for the fact that my mom is driving me crazy right now. I admit it's a little thing, and it's not wrecking my holiday or anything like that. But she has been needy and neurotic this whole time. She insists on being insulted and irritated by the most ridiculous things. Example: we are going to play a board game soon and my dad said he just wanted to watch the last 10 minutes of an episode of a TV series we got him for Christmas. There was a misunderstanding because he thought we had said that wasn't okay but then we explained it was fine; my mom says, "You just want to cast every woman who disagrees with you as being a witch!" WTF? And she is letting my grandma get to her. While we were washing up after dinner she started ranting about how sick of my grandma she is and how she always gets to her. I was getting pretty annoyed at that point and simply said, "Well you let her get to you." She was silent after that. I guess that's what always irritates me about my mom; she complains and gets riled up about things that either a) aren't worth getting upset over or b) are completely within her control. She complains all the time about my dad having been selfish when I was a kid. Well yeah, he was-- but she never complained about it to him either. She never brought it up. She never stood up for herself at all. I'll reiterate that my Christmas hasn't been bad, in fact, I'm really enjoying just relaxing with my family. I just had to let off steam about how my mom, whom I love very much, is annoying. As all moms probably are. I just needed to vent a little before we start playing the game.