Venting...

On Nov. 19th, my sister's 29th birthday, I called her to wish her a Happy Birthday.

Background: she lives in Wisconsin, she's married, she converted to Catholisism to marry the guy, they've got a 9 month old daughter, and we were supposed to meet somewhere halfway between her and I for Christmas.

In our conversation, she told me that she had changed her mind and didn't want to meet halfway because it meant staying in a hotel over Christmas. When I told her that I thought the holidays were about being with family and not about where you are, she told me that she hadn't spent a holiday in a hotel yet and she wasn't about to. She said that the holidays meant having a religious feast (something I must not know anything about) and that she couldn't do that in a hotel. At any rate, she has decided that Christmas has to be at her place this year. I'm going, because like I said, holidays are about being with family, but I do not like the way she's acting, nor the fact that she is making more of us travel north than the three of them travel south...

My sister and I haven't been very close, and this is just driving a bigger wedge between us.