What did I tell you, Mamas? It has begun. My family has gone over the deep end about us having a boy.
My unborn son has received (from the same relative), 4 expensive wooden baby teething toys for Christmas and an organic sherpa and fleece bunting as a general baby gift. In the same box, there was a SINGLE gift for my dd2 (a puzzle), listed as being for her Birthday and Christmas.
It's not about the money. Go to the dollar store, for goodness' sake, and get something to mark as a separate present. OR send all the kids a combo-present. Or, don't sent anything at all. Seriously.
This is our 3rd baby, people. It's not like he's not going to have everything he needs and more...
I'm so sick of it already. Another relative is doing the same thing...
: My mom has send a couple of cute onesies from Germany and over there you don't really send anything until the baby is born anyways but dh 's stateside family hasn't bothered to even ask what we need/want.
I had a shower with my first and used maybe 20% of the things I got and it was from my coworkers. No one whom I could really relate to and all of them had very different parenting styles but I was sooo happy someone thought of me and my baby and made the effort. I simply returned stuff I didn't use but still felt thankful and have good memories.
