These are so funny!

My in-laws did not give us a wedding gift. Eight years later, still no gift. WTF?

Too funny! Love the wacko Dora doll & the bag! And how about the cake topper, the vodoo dolls & the creepy doll. OMG! I guess they can make great conversation pieces!

I have to share this because it has to be shared. A couple of months before my wedding, my future in-laws came out to visit us. When the men-folk went to play golf and his mom and I were left alone together she brought out a special gift she wanted me to have. She gave me a shirt box. I thought, wow, lingerie from the future MIL – she is pretty cool. Well – yes it was lingerie – but HERS from HER wedding night. For ME to WEAR on MY wedding night. What could I do but smile and say “thank you so much for such a thoughtful gift”. The day they left, it went into the dumpster box and all. We lived in LA at the time and I have to end this story by saying that somewhere, someone that night was sporting that lingerie because when I went the next day to dump other trash – the box was open and empty.

My MIL gave me pimple cream. Yes, it was a comment on the condition of my skin.

Oh, I can totally sympathize with the Precious Moments recipient – my husband’s grandmother had a curio cabinet full of china teacups that I mistakenly commented on, in a completely offhand fashion, ONCE. When she suddenly passed away 7 years later, my MIL showed up on our doorstep with both the cabinet and a huge box full of teacups (more than the cabinet could possibly hold), which she had transported halfway across the country because grandma-in-law had left them to me in her will. MIL was so touched that grandma had loved me enough to include me in the will and that we would have “a piece of grandma” to treasure in our house forever. *sigh*

As a Grandma, I can’t afford to buy a lot of things I ‘d like to for my Grand baby. I make mostly all of the things he gets. I sew, and it is very heartfelt time consuming work. I know I have given my daughter some things that she didn’t care for. But, she was gracious enough not to say anything negative because she knows the time and effort I put into things. Most of the things I make are very nice, but they don’t plug in and they don’t take batteries, they take imagination on the part of the child. There’s a not so original ideas. One of the sites I was on, a mother has decided to give her young child only wooden toys and such. No electronics. Cu dos to her, I think that’s wonderful.

Note to others, the doughnut maker is actually a thoughtful gift. It makes very small doughnuts, which are not fried, they are baked. You can also make them whole wheat, reduced sugar, etc. No a child with diabeties can’t eat a batch of them, but one can be incorporated into an appropriate and healthy diet. So since the regular doughnuts become much more problematic, this is a way of allowing the kid to have some doughnuts.
Note to self: Never give my future child-in-law any cherished things from their spouse’s childhood, or cherished things of mine, they will just dump them in the trash. If you don’t want them, give them back, don’t be mean and throw them away. That just hurts my heart.

Hehe, My 2-yr old looked up while I was reading these, with the “Santa” on the screen, and says, “It’s a cat; meeeoww, meeooow, meeow!”