[RKDinOKC]

After Mom passed my SIL went thru all the family pictures to "make sure she had copies" of the ones she wanted. And a couple of months later returned the albums. Last week my sister and her husband came and stayed with my brother that lives behind me. i didn't know she and her new husband (she married after Mom passed) was even here until the last night when they invited me to dinner. Got the impression it was my sister's new husband that insisted they invited me and he paid.

Went to lunch with by brother today. He made a comment about printing copies of pictures and how with the photo paper he couldn't write who the people were on the back. Come to find my sister was here so they could go thru the pictures my SIL had taken from the family photo albums. No wonder they didn't let me know my sister was visiting.

I asked him if that is where he suddenly got the "Original" pictures and he didn't answer. After several minutes of awkward silence he started talking about how the pictures were his side of the family. I know for a fact he didn't associate with those people growing up and only met them at the few family reunions that I also went to. When I was young my parents traveled a lot on weekends and such and I have actually spent more time with the members of HIS side of the family than he has. And they were not so-in-so in-laws, they were just introduced to me as aunts and uncles and cousins and treated me as family as well. At the reunions they recognized me right off, but had to be introduced to my brother and told what relation he was.

After getting back from lunch I went thru a few of the albums and there are LOTS of holes with pictures missing. When I was given back the photo albums my SIL also returned a brief case I didn't know she had. It was the case my Mom carried all the family genealogy stuff in. During all the visiting and family reunions Mom wrote everything down building a family tree and descriptions of the people and what they did and any stories to go along with it. Checked that case and it is EMPTY!! fing A's.

If they would have taken the originals and left copies then their place I wouldn't have minded. But they just left holes!!! Like none of those people matter to me. And without even asking.

Kind of like when they went thru my kitchen. Beside taking all the bowls, vases, etc of any value my sister wanted me to throw away all the recipe books and a lot of the cooking utensils saying I didn't cook. I asked her who the hell had been doing all the cooking for the past 15 years since Mom's stroke!!! I cooked dinner most nights for my Mom, Brother, and brothers girlfriend. After my brother and his girlfriend moved out and got married, she appologized and told me she never offered to cook because the stuff I made was so much better than what she could make.

Isn't extended family wonderful.

Might be good to go try to find some pole dancing and nipple lube.