I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this post but here goes. My husband's aunt wants us to spend thanksgiving at her house and I really don't care to do that for a couple reasons. One being that we bought our first home in August so this is our first thanksgiving here and I kinda wanted to have a quiet dinner and relax in front of the fireplace with my husband and kids. Anyway I just gave in and agreed to go, after being asked by his aunt and mother several times. The next reason I don't want to attend her festivities is because she really let me down recently. I'm a criminal justice student and one of my assignment was to interview 3 CJ professionals, one person in law enforcement, one in judicial and one in forensics. She's a police officer and being family, I felt like she was the best person to start with.

Anyway, I called her and explained the assignment to her, I later texted her the questions as per her request. This happened 2 weeks before the due date so I gave her ample time to answer 5 questions. After week 1 passed I reached out to her and she said she's working on it and I should get her answers later that night. I didn't hear back from her until I contacted her 2 days before the due date. She then said that she's been a bit busy and as soon as she got home she'd call me.

On the day the assignment was due my husband called an old high school buddy of his, he's a police officer himself so he was able to answer the questions in no more than 10 minutes. I then incorporated his response into my essay and made my deadline. I still haven't heard anything from her relating to that assignment, not a word. I expect her to bring it up when we finally see each other at her house and I really don't know if I could hold my tongue and not express my disappointment. I mean the least she could've done was say she didn't want to do it and that would've saved me the time chasing after her and then rushing in the end. Or she could've apologized for not helping at all. Anything to show she gave a shit, like she claimed when we first spoke.

I know it's not that big of a deal but I just don't wanna be around her. It'll be fake greetings and painted on smiles. Smh and again, I'm positive she's gonna bring it up or her sister, my mother in law will and I can't promise to be nice or to hide my disdain. What should I do?