Whose tradition is it really? Sometimes i wonder

I know for years my mothers side of the family has gathered for Thanksgiving. As many as can make it attend. As my cousins & I grew older & had families of our own, the gathering grew to a size that now requires a community center space to accommodate us all. I really love seeing my family & catching up face to face but I look around & notice our children don't really know each other. My cousins children all hang together with each of their cousins but not with their cousins from other families. I only have 1 sister and each of us have 2 boys. Hers r younger than mine but not too young. It just seems weird that the adults can chat it up w each other, my cousins & I were close growing up but has our family gotten so large our children can't really know each other? One would expect in this age of rapid fire communication our kids should know each other better. So what is missing here? So now I wonder are we doing this get together for the right reason? Who are we really doing it for?

missing all the Halloween Fun

Wow. For 3rd time in 26 years I didn't have a Halloween Party at my house. I didn't even do anything special for my teenage kids and their friends. So not like me. But honestly so much stuff going on to kill my spirits I just didn't feel like doing it. THS kids wouldn't help me decorate or clean & kept inhaling all the food. Getting so tired of them expecting so much but getting anything from them is impossible or unheard of. So I stood my ground and did nothing and told them to go to their friend's house.

But now I miss it and have no pictures. My favorite holiday come and gone and all I have is this cool card I made with my Bombshell stamps. Which for some reason I cannot include with my post.

Speaks volumes about the way the year is ending.