Family.. it's a love/hate thing!

This weekend was spent having a relatively wonderful visit with some of my mom's side of the family that aren't exactly close in location, but close in heart... My Aunt and Uncle from Tennessee that I always loved getting to visit with during the summer, and a Uncle and cousin from New Mexico... It was a good visit for the most part and I enjoyed my time with them... I even got to meet my newest cousins - the newborns of the family, which were absolutely precious even if I did have a bit of an issue being around them since I should have had my own newborn to add to the mix?? Not going to dwell on that though... not right now anyways!! One of the newborn's daddy is amazing to watch (and not because he's one of my favorite cousins) - I love his honesty and integrity and now I love seeing him with his little girl since the look on his face is beyond words!!
However... with every family and specially with every family gathering (or so it seems in my family) you have DRAMA... and Drama starts with a D, which BTW is the same letter that starts my sisters name!! And I know I complain about her all the time, but when you have someone as selfish as she is it's really hard to not complain about their behavior (maybe the fact that I complain is selfish too). Some days it's honestly hard to care at all for any of the "bad" things that happen to her, hard to even believe half of the things that she says.. one minute she's got some form of cancer, the next she's been miraculously cured. Yes that is an extreme example but it's a fitting one.. everything in her life is either on top of the world or being crushed by it, there is no in-between and it's incredibly hard to deal with in the best of circumstances. Her most recent roller coaster focuses on the boy toy guy that she dumped her husband of (we'll say) 20 years for, who is only a few years older than her oldest daughter, then she married him and has been trying to fulfill his twisted desires since - sadly enough he's just as immature, childish, and self-centered as my sister but at least he has his age to blame to some degree. This newest husband walks in and out of her life once or twice a year every year at about the same time for the same reasons and still she plays out these games with him, hoping he'll come back and stay!! It's sickening to watch... I hope one day that she'll wake up and realize that how she acts doesn't just affect her, it affects her entire family!!!