Easter

Coming from a Catholic family, Easter has always been a big special holiday for us. Sadly, my sister is not able to come home for Easter and my brother is going to Hope, Idaho so spend the weekend with his girlfriends family. I realize us kids are getting older and we are going to start having our own family traditions but its still sad that we wil not all be together in this special day. Well, here is where my dilemma lies. So since Matt is not going to be here, and neither is Amanda, it will just be Mikey, and me and Caleb with mom and dad on Easter. My dad had this idea (which is stupid), to go to Easter Mass on Saturday night because it is the mass where the new Catholics get publicly introduced at church and where the high schoolers receive their conformation. This Mass begins at 8pm because it has to start after sundown traditionally. Well, I asked my dad, "do you really think Caleb is going to be good at an hour and a half mass that will take place well after his bedtime?" He said, well I want to see the kids receive conformation and I want to see the new Catholics be introduced. You and Caleb can go to Easter Mass by yourselves. This really hurt me. I know it is just one Mass but it has been such a family thing for as long as I can remember, it just hurt that he would even mention that. It would be different if I had a husband or even a boyfriend to go to mass with me. Then I would feel more like a family. I know my reasoning sounds stupid and I dont need a man to feel like a family, but it is not the same. It sucks, its like my sister has her husband and her kids, Matt has his girlfriend, Mikey will either go with our parents or with his girlfriends parents and I have no one. Ugh..... I promised I wouldn't whine about my life.