Newsflash . Tom Brady is good . Jay Cutler is bad . <| sep |> I definitely am enjoying it this year , but it ' s also our first year being essentially NoContact with my parentsmost of my relatives . Before that , it was always a long slog to a cousin ' s house to sit with about 35 people we only saw once a year and eat food I don ' t really like at ~ 2 pm . It always ended with me babysitting everyone ' s kids the entire time , and getting grilled about my life by Mom ' s cousins . Enter SO , and it was a day of judgement where all these people who don ' t know us tried to have opinions about our relationship . This year is super relaxed I ' m cooking stuff everyone likes , we ' re eating whenever , and we ' re only hosting my husband ' s family . The only kid we ' ll be watching is our own son . No long drive time . No godawful awkward extended family obligations . Christmakkah is going to be even better ! Definitely a controlnarc issue before . They suck the life and joy out of EVERYTHING .