Mother in Law's tonight...

My MIL invited my husband and I plus his two sisters and their spouses and his aunt to her house tonight for our annual adult Christmas dinner and gift exchange...we normally go to a restraurant but this year decided to do it at the house and order pizza and salads. We were all to be there at 5:00-5:30...Bruce and I arrived and his younger sister Debbie and her husband,Bob were there already, but not his older sister, Cindy and her husband, Dick. We wondered why Cindy wasn't there, then his mom told us that she had made different plans for the evening before the dinner was planned..we all knew that was a bunch of bull because she knew well in advance that we were going to do this---Cindy is famous for not coming to things unless they are totally in her honor...but to miss her mother's dinner is unexcusable....not to mention that my MIL over the past year has given each of her three kids $6000 from money she inherited from an aunt in Oklahoma and tonight she surprised us again but giving them checks for $1500. She says she wants to see her kids enjoy their inheritance while she's still alive so she gladly gives it to them now. Bruce, me, Debbie, and Bob all fully appreciate this and have used the past money for our homes and for vacations--so we've enjoyed these unexpected gifts. This latest one will buy some new furniture and Bruce wants a rock tumbler--don't ask! But this Cindy thing has us all upset and angry--how can anyone treat their mother like this? What's even worse is that my MIL is going on 86 and who knows how many years she has left so for this to happen really pisses us off, excuse my language. I even made a scrapbook framed page of their grandmother and my MIL at age 3 for both sisters, now I wish I'd not made one for Cindy but I can't take it back (left it at my MIL) because everyone knows that it was meant for Cindy---although Debbie tried to tell me to take it back and give it to someone else--just felt bad for my MIL and told her if Cindy came by later to let her take it. Now, in hindsight, I should have taken it home with me and gave it to my stepdaughter instead because Cindy doesn't deserve it!
Enough venting for tonight...I am just angry that this happened. Anyway, my husband is still recouping and I have to go back to work tomorrow, so I'm making him stuff for lunches that he can easily handle with one hand..I will be so glad when he can use both hands again. I've been nursing him now for 5 days and the bandages don't come off until Dec. 24th, so I have another 10 days to go...I don't know how much more I can do I'm beat now!! Then there will be another 4 weeks of restrictions which hopefully won't be as strict as they are now...I'm doing all his chores now so I hope he'll be able to do some after the stitches come out...at least the little daily things like filling the humidifier, taking the trash out, making his own sandwiches, etc. Sorry, I'm just tired right now and I'm thinking about the snow that they say we might be getting, which means I'll be shoveling instead of him...and it'll be after dark as I work till 6 p.m. and it's dark around 5 here. Not looking forward to this week at all!
Well, I best go check on my "patient" and make sure he's doing okay and doesn't need anything, then I'll watch the news and go to bed. Will post more this week and hopefully I won't be venting anymore.
Goodnight all!!