Oh, the dreaded, whole famn damily get together ... those aren't for me.
For some reason the week before a family get together, I get a little stressed and once it's over and I can regroup it takes a couple of days to decompress. There's another one of those miserable events approaching.
I like my family, even my in-laws are fine, but it's just too much all at once to have them all in the same house. The thing that saved me over Thanksgiving is that there were three babies born to the family this year and I got to spend a lot of time with little cute, curious people, instead of big, noisy, agressive, stubborn people.