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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mother in Law gave us $$ to buy gifts for DD since we won't see them for Christmas. I was going to use it for an experience but she wanted a photo/list of the gifts purchased with the money. Wanted it to go towards a "big" pile of stuff. Then keeps sending me links of things (mostly princess/pink stuff) that my tomboy would absolutely hate. Ugh.

I wish she'd just send a few gift cards and be done with it. [/quote]

My MIL comes to visit every year around the holidays. She asks me what DS wants. I put together some ideas on an amazon wish list. She decides she doesn’t want to bring a gift with her. I offer to ship it here. She asks me to wrap it from her. Fine.

Then at the last minute she tells me never mind, she’d rather take DS to pick something out while she’s here. We go to a store and she tells DS to pick whatever he wants. Then she proceeds to micromanage what he picks. She tries to lead him to things she can play with him while she’s here, like board genes or something like that. DS has heard he can pick whatever he likes so although he likes board games, it’s not what he’d pick if he’s told he can pick anything in the store. The year he wanted Transformers MIL was especially disappointed. The whole experience ends with everyone feeling frustrated. She just needs to order something off the damn list she asks for or give a gift card in an amount she’s comfortable with. [/quote]

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