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Just to lighten the mood around here I thought I would share with you all a little bit about our annual family Christmas party. (Keep in mind this is suppose to be funny and no one got hurt. (So please no comments about how ashamed I should feel for posting this or what I should have done. Just laugh as I did.) So my husband comes from this very large family. Every year all the aunts,uncles, cousins, cousins's wives and husbands and their children, inlaws and alike get together and have a family Christmas party. The party is held at my husband's uncle's church who is the pastor there. Anyway since my husband is out of town this year on work stuff, my mother in law told me she would pick me up and I could ride along with her to the church. The party stared at 6pm. My mother in law did not tell me she could not see to drive very well after dark. But anyway she came to pick me up and off we went. On the way there she wanted to stop at the grocery store. It was dark by then. She wanted to turn into the drive to the grocery store parking lot but could not see it. So she drove down the middle of the road until she found the the store driveway. We went into the store, got our stuff, then we were off again heading for the church. When we got near to the church she was having a hard time seeing where the entrance was to pull into the church parking lot. I was trying to help her when she miss took the church yard for the parking lot. I started shouting "no that's the grass not the drive way"! But she went anyway. Drove through the church yard then turn to drive into the parking lot. So we laughed, got parked and went inside to the family party. I had brought homemade cookies for the party. I went in and placed them down one the dessert table along with all the pies, cakes,other cookies and a full punch bowl. I walked away to go chat with family members. A few moments later there was a loud crash as the whole dessert table fell to the floor! Down went the the pies. Down went the cakes. And down went the punch bowl full of punch, most of it spilling into my homemade cookies! We clean the messed up and were able to save a few desserts but not my cookies, which where now floating in punch. Anyway we made more punch since no one wanted to drink punch with my cookies in it and the rest of the party went on. Well then it came time to go home. So I got into the car with my mother in law driving. I should inform you that the church is outside of town and there is a large cornfield across from it. My mother in law pulled up the the end of the church driveway and stop to watch for traffic. She wanted to turn left. But as she pulled to get onto the road, she made her turn too late and drove off the other side of the road into the cornfield! I knew screaming would make things worse so all I said was "your off the road!" And she is like "yeah I know'! Well she finely made her left turn and got back onto the road, then we headed home. That's when she told me she has a hard time seeing how to drive at night and that next year she is going to get someone else to drive. In the end we all made it home alive which is why I am able to tell you this story.