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It's becoming increasingly difficult for my sister and I to plan our holiday trips home because we've gotten to the point where it's more and more miserable going home for any length of time. My folks have a small house--four bedrooms, but still small--the TV's ALWAYS on, everyone yells, and no one gives anyone a moment's alone time. If I try to escape for a bit to get my bearings, my dad pouts and tells me how much he misses me and never sees me (in fact, that's pretty much ALL he says when we're home) and my mom goes off with "Oh, I know we're obnoxious to you now, and we're just hicks to you, etc.," and they both think I hate them because all I want to do is read a book for an hour or so. I hardly ever even get to have conversations with my dad anymore because he's whining the whole time about how he never gets to see me.

So their neighbors recently built an apartment above their garage for their kids when they visit, and they'll be out of town for Christmas, and my sister suggested to my mother that they maybe they could rent the apartment for a few nights--basically just her, her husband, and their baby. Their toddler would stay at my folks' house. And it's set off an enormous new family drama in which my mother hung up on my sister twice, and told my sister not to tell Dad she asked about it (my folks are very big on keeping secrets and blaming each other for unpleasant things), yaddayadda.

This is going to be a fun holiday!