Photo books and ILs/Parents

[Anonymous]

I decided to do photo books for my mom and MIL for mother's day with pictures of our son.

In what should have been predictable (WOH mom + baby who won't sleep bc of teething), I'm way behind on getting these done. I had originally planned to do separate ones for my family and my ILs (so, for example, the one for my mom would have pics of my parents w/ the baby, and same with ILs), and make one comprehensive one for myself. Now, however, I'm realizing that 1)I'm out of time and 2)I-- sadly-- don't actually have that many pictures of DS with each side of the family. (none of them are local, so it was just when they came to visit when he was born + holidays).

I guess my question is: is it weird to send a book to each side of the family that includes pics from the other side as well? It's much harder than I thought to just delete out pics without having to re-arrange a bunch of pages and pictures in the book (which was maybe my fault in how I hastily put it together in the first place).

[Anonymous]

Just do the best you can--and make sure there aren't more photos of one side or the other.

Or just skip the book and do photo magnets or mugs!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just do the best you can--and make sure there aren't more photos of one side or the other.

Or just skip the book and do photo magnets or mugs!

+1. Do a mug with a picture of the grandma in question without any guilt.

Photobooks are a PITA. Especially if you are trying to make 3 of the same time period. Not sure about your family but my parents would not be interested in getting a photobook with pictures of my ILs and my children and vice versa (I say this knowing my ILs have purposely replaced photos that have even included me in them with photos of just my husband and the kids. And no, it's not me, they have done the same to my SIL, there are no pictures in their house that include either of us).

[Anonymous]

I'm doing mugs this year too!

Mugs are way more practical than a book.

[Anonymous]

I'm just ordering a couple of prints of baby and baby with grandparents for each side big enough to frame and add to their collections of grandkid pics.

I also had grand dreams of doing a photo book for each side and, in the least shocking turn of events ever, ran out of time/energy.

[Anonymous]

I also think a mug or single, nice photo would be great. You can easily order those from a site like personal creations in time for mother's day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I also think a mug or single, nice photo would be great. You can easily order those from a site like personal creations in time for mother's day.

Mugs are a great idea - you can use one favorite photo for each family and many sites are running specials for Mother's Day. Save the book idea for when you have more photos and more time!

[Anonymous]

I would skip the photo book and do something else. Those things are so awful to put together!
If you absolutely must do the photobook just do one book woth only pictures of the baby. Don't put grandparents in at all. They probably won't want pictures of each other and/or some grandmas will be competitive and count how many times, not like their photo, etc.

[Anonymous]

My sister in law gives me these types of gifts for every occasion. I don't want these books and mugs and I wish you guys would realise that. Enough with the shutterfly gifts!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My sister in law gives me these types of gifts for every occasion. I don't want these books and mugs and I wish you guys would realise that. Enough with the shutterfly gifts!!

What is wrong with you? Are you expecting your SIL to select some other gift, as if you were a small child? Be gracious, but your own stuff, and grow the F up.

Also what on earth are you doing on a parenting website? Before kids I was not a loser on the Internet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My sister in law gives me these types of gifts for every occasion. I don't want these books and mugs and I wish you guys would realise that. Enough with the shutterfly gifts!!

What is wrong with you? Are you expecting your SIL to select some other gift, as if you were a small child? Be gracious, but your own stuff, and grow the F up.

Also what on earth are you doing on a parenting website? Before kids I was not a loser on the Internet.

[b]

I have kids and no I don't subject others to shutterfly crap. I don't want presents from my SIL and I throw all of the mugs and books in the bin.

[Anonymous]

I don't like all the junk mugs and all the personalized trinkets from shutterfly.

Honestly, the easiest course of action is to send a framed photo of the grandmothers with their grandchildren. Easy and DONE.

Those photo books sound like a good idea in theory, but they are VERY time consuming to make (as you already know.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My sister in law gives me these types of gifts for every occasion. I don't want these books and mugs and I wish you guys would realise that. Enough with the shutterfly gifts!!

What is wrong with you? Are you expecting your SIL to select some other gift, as if you were a small child? Be gracious, but your own stuff, and grow the F up.

Also what on earth are you doing on a parenting website? Before kids I was not a loser on the Internet.

[b]

I have kids and no I don't subject others to shutterfly crap. I don't want presents from my SIL and I throw all of the mugs and books in the bin.

Classy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My sister in law gives me these types of gifts for every occasion. I don't want these books and mugs and I wish you guys would realise that. Enough with the shutterfly gifts!!

What is wrong with you? Are you expecting your SIL to select some other gift, as if you were a small child? Be gracious, but your own stuff, and grow the F up.

Also what on earth are you doing on a parenting website? Before kids I was not a loser on the Internet.

[b]

I have kids and no I don't subject others to shutterfly crap. I don't want presents from my SIL and I throw all of the mugs and books in the bin.

Agreed. I do not want poor quality pictures on mugs, plates, magnets and especially not blankets or shirts. I love my family, but I don't want my house to become a weird shrine to their photos.

I don't keep those gifts. Also, I would be perfectly happy with a card or a phone call than one of these gifts.

[Anonymous]

Way too much work, OP.

I selected two photos, had them printed and framed them myself with cool frames I got at Micheal's and funky mats I had chosen myself.