Family...sigh

I hate reading posts from my family on Facebook. Some of them have it so much easier than we do, financially speaking. It makes it hard to be happy for them. For example...my female cousin that lives in New Jersey, is looking to buy a quad for her youngest child. Considering the fact that I have to budget in a pair of sneakers, it makes me angry that they seem to have so much, while we have so little. It drives me crazy, actually. I want to call her up and scream at her about the fact that I need to get a root canal and a crown, and all she does is lament the fact that her daughters have to share a quad! Then, there's the cousin that inherited a profitable business from his wife's family, and they have every toy imaginable under the sun. There's also the fact that ALL of them have driven to within an hour of my house, and none of them have stopped for a cup of tea. I hate to sound ungrateful for their successes in life, but there comes a point when enough is enough. How do I earn their attention? Can I even begin to? Graduation is coming up, and I know that with all of the resources at their disposal, they would rather spend a weekend at the Outer Banks than come to my house. It hurts, and YES...I AM INCREDIBLY JEALOUS OF THEM.