 | Just want some opinions/advice on this.
My parents are typical grandparents and like to buy gifts for my daughter, who is 11 mos old. My Mom likes buying things in general, loves holidays, and tends to go a little overboard. Also, she brings something for my daughter every time she sees her, which is about once a month. It's usually nothing big, but she's also given us a lot of my old toys. Anyway, all this gift buying bothers my husband a lot, and it does a little to me too. Like she brought my daughter a couple of wooden puzzles, and I had really been looking forward to buying her her first wooden puzzles (but when she was a little older). My husbands parents aren't into buying gifts, and they also tend to do what we ask, which is not to buy a lot of stuff for her. We feel like we haven't even gotten a chance to buy things for our own daughter because my Mom always beats us to it.
My question is, should I talk to my Mom, REALLY talk to her and tell her what we want? I just want her gifts to be special and memorable to Erin, like my grandmothers few gifts were to me. I hate to put all these rules and regulations on being a grandma, and all the books I've read say to let the grandparents spoil the child. But what if your husband is griping about it after every visit and you are tired of listening to him! Ha ! |
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