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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the OP. I'm not sure where 9:00 gets the idea I use the term bio-mom. I don't. I think it's disrespectful and belittling, and as I'm not trying to be my stepson's mom, I don't use that term. Other PPs used it, but that's their choice, and not mine. In my original post, she is referred to as the ex wife and "his mother." Never bio mom.

As for the expense of the gift- the laptop I was looking at it as a $225 refurb. It would be his main gift. DH was on board with this and liked the idea. I created this thread because after he ran our ideas by stepson's mom and she shot them down, we are both at a loss as to what to get stepson for Christmas. We may buy the laptop anyway, but he would not keep it at our house because we live several hours apart. If he kept it here, he would never get to use it and it would be a pointless gift. Part of the reason we would like him to have it is for school work, especially next fall when he enters high school.

We do defer to stepson's mom on pretty much everything. But when we're given "bedsheets" as a suggestion for what we are "allowed" to buy stepson for Christmas, it sucks. We enjoy giving him things too. So our choices are, go against what his mom wants and get him what we think is a good gift, or get him flipping linens for Christmas. Just what every teen boy wants! Ultimately, yes, it is and has always been my DH's decision. I go along with what he decides to do- hence posting an anonymous vent on a board. [/quote]

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