Watching the Macy's fireworks on tv also reminds me of how strained relationships are in my father-in-laws family. Usually, we'd be sitting in a $4 million dollar home, on a cliff, overlooking various NJ towns and being able to see the fireworks IRL, but since his father died, and somehow my FIL was all of a sudden excluded from the will, and two years later, listening to details that are surfacing that would blow your mind away, and those minds of his brothers (for our good) it is not mindboggling that we don't get together that much with his brothers and sisters and their families.......sad, but true......