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[quote=Anonymous]It's starting to get ridiculous. She takes note of everything they get to do with DS or give DS and tries to match it. Having grown up with her, she likes to keep score and feels shafted if she doesn't get her share of something. Last week she saw a picture DH had taken of DS and his other grandparents sitting on a couch. So while she was over, she insisted I take a photo of her and my father sitting with DS. And I think it is tied to the photo she had seen because she had remarked earlier in the day what a lovely photo it was and how she didn't have a photo like that of her, my father and DS.  She did the same kind of thing when she saw a photo of DS and my MIL when he was about a month old. FIL had taken a really nice photo of MIL holding DS, and when my mom saw the photo, same thing-- "I should have a photo of me and him like that too!" She became obsessed with the photo and kept commenting on how nice it was. Sounded a little passive aggressive to me.

The list goes on. DH's family got to see DS twice in the past month but she and my father didn't (due to the fact that they we had other commitments and our schedules just happened to work out with DH's family). She called me out on it saying that she wants DS to know her and my father as well as he knows DH's family (um, DS is only a baby and still getting to know his parents. yikes!).  DH's family is Irish and they gave him some Irish items. My mother is now in the process of rounding up baby items from her culture in response.

I wish she'd stop it already but again, maybe this is just how she's always going to be? Just roll my eyes and go with it?

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