They are a bunch of self centred retards, and the only way that they can continue to be in denial is to not face the facts.
One of them had a son on November 1, and "because it's hard to travel with kids" (they live 3 hours away), would probably next visit home "oh early to mid 2006"...in spite of his Mum's prognosis of not likely to reach Christmas.
After much badgering, he brought his son down, but not his daughter a few days before Christmas, but was having Christmas with his inlaws, as they'd made arrangements back in June, and couldn't shift them (his inlaws live like 5km away from them).
An other one lives about 5 hours away, and they DID visit in November. Got caught driving an unregistered uninsured car (been that way for at least 5 years we surmise), requiring everyone else in the family to drop everything, drive 100km to pick them up, ferry them around, lend them money for a hire car etc.
While here, his wife told me "I'm glad we live so far away, we couldn't handle facing this on a day to day basis"...I pointed out that Kerry IS facing this day to day, and got a simple blank look.
Ultimately they didn't show because "our kids have the right to have Christmas in their own home once in a while", and "I have to make the choices of how my kids remember their Grandmother, and I don't want them to remember this".
Third one live 45 minutes away and admitedly has been up 3 times in the last 2 1/2 months (including Christmas)...I had to make him cry on the phone to get them motivated, but "there's not much you can do when you live so far away", and "it IS cricket season, and I'm part of a team you know".
It's been devastating for both Kerry's Mum and Father.
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