Looking Forward To Your Visit

I heard my husband say, Oh, good. You'll be here in forty minutes. How wonderful! Yes, the cousins of the cousins were coming. Less than an hour's notice. We'd been trying to get them here for ten years. They had never accepted. Now that we had the car packed, and the kids were psyched about going to a water park for the weekend, We were staying. I stared at my husband, incredulously. Why didn't you tell them? He put up his hands, shrugged, helplessly. These were his mother's cousins. In their 80's. They would never understand. They were already on their way, Expecting us to be delighted. The hardest part of the weekend was not unpacking the car or keeping the disappointed children quiet. The hardest part was not strangling a man.