It’s coming—the family event of the year. There will be variations of uncles with corny jokes, cousins that won’t forgive, and, well, let’s just say—interesting personalities.
Pile on exhaustion, expectations, disappointments, and memories (good and bad) of years gone by and, my friend, you have what is known as a potentially hazardous situation.
Potentially being the operative term. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Believe me, I know what I’m talking about here—
I stepped through the gate, marveling at the calm – no splashing in the pool, no jumping on the trampoline, none of the previous excitement.
Across the yard, I saw them sitting under the pool umbrellas munching happily away on bags of chips, Tostitos, and popcorn, salsa, guacamole, and fruit trays.
Less than three hours earlier, after a full-scale
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