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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The nice thing is that she remembered your kid liked that thing and acted on it.

Keep it as a backup. Kids puke, go on car rides, needs something for movie night.
Just don't redecorate with it.

She also, to be fair, didn't ask you to.

It is more about her relationship with your kid than her relationship with you.  Let that go, if you can.

I have an aunt who does that (buys my kid character things) and I use them this way. My mom (Grandma) gets mad she did it. "I saw that in the store and was GOING to buy it. I am so mad she always takes my ideas."  Then she doesn't do it. My kids think, "Auntie gets us stuff we like. Grandma sends a check after the holiday is over." [/quote]

It's pretty hard to tell a kid - Sorry sweetie you can't have your favorite Thomas the Tank bedspread that Grammy gave you on your bed, you have to have THIS bedspread that Mommy likes on your bed.  Yes, you can MAKE your kid have the damn Pottery Barn bedspread on his bed.  But it plain is not worth the battle with your kid and it is not worth butting heads with Grandma over - who knows that Timmy LOVES Thomas the Tank and thinks that Mommy is being silly.  And she's right - the kid DOES love Thomas the Tank.  Doesn't mean that Mommy appreciates Grandma's gift or doesn't wish that her long coveted Pottery Barn was on that bed instead.

However, in the grand scheme of things - I will say it again - it is a blessing and far better to have that loving grandma in their lives than a stupid bedspread that the kid doesn't care a rat's patootie about.

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