Christmas with the family

Christmas with my family went well. I had this fantasy of stopping in the middle of Christmas festivities and saying, "I almost died 2 weeks ago, why were none of you there for me.  Why are we pretending to be a happy family today when you obviously don't really care?" But, I decided to focus on cute niece and nephew and have fun with them.  They were super fun and made it all good.   My brother did make some trite comment about how "life is short" (not about me- about a song or something) and I said "Hey!  I'm the one who should be saying that.  I'm the one who could have died 2 weeks ago!"  But it was all in a joking spirit, so no feelings were hurt.   I'm glad I didn't let a mean side of myself out on Christmas day, even if my family hurt my feelings terribly by not visiting me when I had the PE.  My brother still hasn't really acknowledged my PE.  It's strange, but I think it just must freak him out.    My sweetie was great.  He was worried for me that there were a lot of green leafy veggies in our Christmas meal- spinach salad, creamed spinach...  I told him it was no big deal to have small servings of both.  But it was really nice of him to be so caring and attentive like that.