Holidays make Teh Dramaz

I got copied on a fistful of emails in the last several days between Mother and Chris and L, going on about a winter storm that ended up not happening and its effect on Mother and Chris being able to come down for Christmas.  This morning I got a call from Mother, who said it was too far for Chris to drive in a day and it seemed to her our schedule was too tight to work for them, so she was going to stay home and eat worms, and try to come another time.  Argh.  Spare me the dramatics—I told her to come or don’t as she saw fit, ’cos we were going to go ahead with our celebration and dinner with T and Jimmy as scheduled, since it was the only schedule that would work to get everyone together at once.