Matriarch Battles Bishopweed And In-Law Diplomacy To Save Holidays
KEY POINTS
- •Virginia DeLuca, 72, manages holiday gatherings spanning four generations affected by divorce in her family.
- •She balances multiple households, scheduling conflicts, and complex relationships including exes and step-grandparents during celebrations.
- •Despite the challenges, Virginia finds comfort in gardening and appreciates her family’s continued efforts to connect.
Virginia DeLuca, 72, therapist and matriarch extraordinaire, spends November wrestling bishopweed in jeans soaked with garden mud—because gardening is clearly easier than organizing a four-generation holiday circus of exes, step-grandparents, and text thread politics. Having survived the family’s trademark multi-decade diversion from the 'Norman Rockwell version'—divorce featured in four generations including her parents', her own, her son's, and now the grandchildren's aftermath—she’s still trying to plot which ex-wife or step-parent will host the annual multitasking fiasco. In the 1950s, the extended family stuffed into one long table, with Uncle Tony shouting across to Aunt Lee; now, dinners are splitting like the divorce rate, with group texts generating more headaches than shared stuffing. Virginia’s late bulbs might rise come spring, but no email chain can bloom order from chaos, just like bishopweed refuses to die. Despite it all, love persists—in spite of and maybe because of, the pies exes bring and step-grandparents who show more tolerance than Google’s algorithm for family guilt trips.
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Nothing says ‘family holiday cheer’ like coordinating divorced exes, step-folks, and group texts Galaxy Brain level chaos. At least the bishopweed never asks who’s on the guest list.
Family gatherings used to be one table, now it’s a tournament of text threads and passive-aggressive pie exchanges. Evolution, folks.
She thought she was a gardener. Turns out her real talent is surviving four generations of divorce without losing the fancy silverware.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 12/18/2025 | Author: Virginia DeLuca
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