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[quote=Anonymous]MIL likes to take the lead in managing mass family communications and has a long email distro list of people she always includes.  She sends out a monthly calendar of birthdays, anniversaries, memorials, etc. plus a full contact list for family and friends who are like family. She also puts together special birthday e-greetings for everyone and is always the first to get the next congratulatory or holiday thread going. You get the picture, and it's great, except when it comes to discussing our kids.

Our kids are, and will ever be, the only grandkids. Whenever they accomplish something exciting, MIL takes all of the details/photos I provide and sends them out to the entire family, *except* for DH and I. Aunts, uncles, cousins... all respond in turn congratulating the kids and gushing about how proud they are, etc. There's lots of love and support and just generally nice things be said that we never get to see :(

I've talked to MIL about this and asked her if she could please not specifically exclude DH and I from these threads as we'd love to be able to read/respond and share them with the kids. Deposit numerous attempts, she just won't do it!  She's somewhat emotionally immature and I know she loves to relish in the praise and gets personal satisfaction from it, but it's upsetting that she just can't share it with us and our kids.

I know it's petty of me, but it makes me want to stop sharing as much as I do.  DD just aced a very important try-out and now MIL is texting asking for all the details that she will 100% compile into a mass email to everyone but us. I know I shouldn't let it bother me as much as I do, but I don't have many people left in my family of origin, so this side is most of what my kids have in terms of family.

What's my move here? MIL is a generally well-meaning person, but this behavior just stings.

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