How to Be a Bit Player

A month or so ago my wife and her two sisters all with their three children high school graduates spent a week together at my sister-in-law's house doing celebratory events. i stayed home because my younger one was still in school school and not finished. The plan was that we would take them all out to eat that night a dozen or so family members would go to a nice restaurant as the other sisters were throwing parties for the kids on different days. So it was our turn and then this was the plan i would turn around and drive back the very next day because my older son actually wanted to come home early because he was planning to go to the beach with his friends for a