Post by MsNicole06 on Aug 30, 2015 19:12:38 GMT -5
Working Moms had a post about parenting worries/vents/anxiety/etc. they were talking about Christmas shopping and splitting holidays and now I find myself irrationally annoyed by DHs family and the name draw. I'm annoyed because DHs extended family and immediate family is a grand total of 8 people. However we still do gifts with his parents and brother and SIL which means the name draw doesn't really save us any money. We do a separate Christmas with his parents and brother then the extended family so if we draw one of their names you have to buy 2 gifts for the same person so they can open a gift at the gift exchange. Plus the expectation is that everyone buys DHs grandma a gift so we typically buy 8 gifts regardless. It drives my absolutely batty that it's done this way and that as adults we still buy everyone gifts. This also means I have to develop a Christmas list for myself.
So if you read my vent thank you. It feels good to get this off my chest to someone.
DD is being really clingy tonight and DH is at a fantasy football draft so I'm hoping for an early bedtime and some mom time.
Hi ladies! I have a baby sleeping on my arm so tagging cant happen but I hope you all had a great weekend! Being up north and disconnected was really nice. We sleep on sn sir mattress up there and lo fell off in the middle of the night because he kept shoving my arm off of him (I normally have an arm over him so he cant roll off). I felt awful and now our bed at home is on the floor just in case.
I have to get daycare figured out it is eating at me daily and our nanny is tired of working so many hours. We are touring an in home daycare this week Im hoping I like that better than the center.
MsNicole06 That seems silly to do a name draw if you still do other gift exchanges. Isn't the whole point of a name draw to make that THE gift exchange? On the subject of Christmas splitting, we declared last year that we were doing the holidays with just the three of us this year. I'm a little bit sad about that, so I plan on sneaking thanksgiving into baby's birthday celebration somehow, and doing Christmas the week before or after with my family. And H can still have the actual holidays here at home. My baby has been really clingy/snuggly too. It's making me happy though. She leans her head into me and I just melt. GL with the daycare spikesmom! Hope you feel really comfortable with it. I'm enjoying population 2 drunkville.
zengal it works great for DHs cousin and grandma. His cousin brought up a while back it makes perfect sense. But she doesn't know about the other christmas gift giving we do. MIL is huge into gift giving and so his BIL if we cut it out there would be huge drama and family feuding. MIL ignores the exchange and still buys gifts for everyone. Shes the most generous person I know and it's ridiculous just how over the top it is. Our individual budget she has for each of us is what most spend on all the gifts they buy. BIL isn't very far behind her.
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