Lunar New Year Eve Reunion Dinner

It's day 2 of spring cleaning.

We are going for dinner at Crystal Jade at Great World City.

Sam's cousin told us cannot make it the day before because her son vomitted. Alright so we shall go without her and the kids. It so happened on the eve at about 3pm, my FIL said that he was not going as he was not well. Sam was upset over the whole thing since he wanted to have the whole family to be present in order to have reunion dinner. Thus we suggested that we changed our plan of going to the restaurant to take away 'peng cai'. Upon heaing that, it's MIL's turn to flare up to say she that she is not happy and do not want to eat; she would rather cook maggie mee as her dinner. She was not happy over why cousin can give excuse of not joining in so why can't she. It's all plain stupidity wasn't it? I knew she was not happy because we mentioned about getting the 'peng cai' back. She was just worried that she has alot of cleaning up (double cleaning up from our spring cleaning as well as from the dinner). Sam rebuked her saying that she can choose not to do any cleaning up and let us do it instead. If in future, there is any cleaning, is she going to come back and do for us?

After he managed to persuade all to go for the dinner then ILs are not going again because FIL is not feeling well and MIL is staying home to look after him. What we can do was to pack some of the food back for them and they ate only about 10pm.

Sam was upset all because the reunion dinner was not complete without them.

Next year I doubt I will want to eat together with them. Likely I will suggest to eat at home but I doubt my dear MIL will want to. I can't wait for them to move out then we can have the say and invite them over for reunion dinner and can do our spring cleaning in peace.