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I only want to comment on the aesthetically pleasing bit- wait Til your kids start making ornaments. Are you going to be annoyed that those tacky things are expected to hand on your tree too?  
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Different PP.  I agree.  Last year, with two 2-year olds, we didn't put out most of our regular Christmas decorations because the vast majority are breakable.  So my wife spent time with the kids and made a bunch of construction paper snowflakes, stars, angels and strips.  The kids colored them with marker and stickers.  The strips were made into loops for a chain tinsel and the rest became ornaments.  This year, we bought cardboard ornaments at Michael's and the kids painted them with craft paints.  We have a few more decorations out than last year and every year, we'll add more until it's safe to do Christmas decorations the way we did pre-kids.

But while I love all the crafts that my wife and kids do, the ornaments aren't very aesthetically pleasing.  However they are sentimentally irreplaceable. [b] As would be gifts from either of our parents.[/b][/quote]

Anything the kids make is wonderful and irreplaceable.

However, if this OP has been having larger issues with her MIL, I can see that gifts from her are just triggers for thinking about her annoying MIL.  It sounds like OP needs some space.  She mentioned letting MIL in the delivery room because she wanted to be there--I think OP has maybe put MIL's feelings ahead of her own a time too many and is now realizing that her own feelings matter too and maybe wishing she'd set some boundaries earlier.
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