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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have two children - a 2 year old and a 6 month old.  For our 2 year old's first Christmas, we had a baby's first ornament made with his name on it and a photo ornament with his first picture with Santa.  For our 6 month old, we are doing the same thing - just haven't gotten the photo ornament made yet.

So my MIL emails me pictures of 5 ornaments she's had made.  One for each of my children's Christmases.  They have the year, their name, and a picture.  My MIL is not crafty or detail-oriented.  The pictures she chose to use are not the best and she cropped them awfully.  Half of my son's face is missing in one of them.  She had a set made for us and for her.

I'm annoyed.  Here's why:

1) We already have ornaments for our children's first Christmases.
2) Our tree is packed with ornaments that are special to us and that we find aesthetically pleasing.  Now I have to find space for 5 more with crappy photos of my kids?
3) I would have done a much better job making the ornaments myself.  I'm the mom - I have tons of pictures that would have worked better than the ones she chose!  And she's not good at projects like this.
4) Now what do we get the grandparents for Christmas? My plan was to make some cute photo gifts for the grandparents.  But now the grandmother is making photo gifts for me?  Isn't that backwards???

So am I being unreasonable?  Would you be annoyed?  And how do I get her to stop doing this so I don't get an ugly new ornament every year?[/quote]

Yes, you are unreasonable. You need to get the Christmas spirit, accept gifts like this graciously, and stop being such a nasty thinker. It's really toxic.[/quote]

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