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[quote=Anonymous]My mother is having a very hard time adjusting to how our son’s birthday will be celebrated this year. He’s in first grade and we’ve decided to take a cue from other parents who are downsizing their kids’ birthdays to smaller activity-focused birthdays, I.e. invite a few friends out for bowling and pizza or fishing at a local lake. We just think we are past the big expensive party with the whole class plus every available relative. DH is totally on board with this too.

My mother, the drama queen, is now insisting his birthday will not be celebrated properly and that she should be at any and all parties. Worse, I told her that we may be visiting my in-laws the weekend before DS’s birthday. (Not for his birthday, mind you.) Well, she blew a gasket and said if MIL will get to throw a separate big bash for DS by golly then she should too. MIL will be doing no such thing. In fact, MIL is not a scorekeeper like my mom. I’m starting to think my mother is developing some age-related mental issues. She’s in her early 70s and demonstrating some anxiety and paranoia.

I appreciate my mother’s interest in celebrating DS’s birthday. She is welcome to buy him a fun cake and take him out. But he is getting older and seems most interested in other things. The score keeping and imaginary slights are becoming insufferable. I feel like the only thing that could make her happy would be lying about any plans MIL does or doesn’t have. [/quote]

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