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<blockquote data-quote="CrazyinVA" data-source="post: 110582" data-attributes="member: 1157"><p>Thank you for this thread! It's made me feel less alone in my experiences, especially about not receiving gifts. My oldest and her husband gave me zilch, saying athat someone had stole his identity and their bank account was wiped out (the story keeps changing, I'm not sure what has happened). I gave them gas money to get to my place for dinner, and my son-in-law helped me clean the day before.. which actually was a wonderful gift. Youngest got me a wireless mouse for my laptop, which really was a thoughtful gift, it's just that she spent gobs of money on her baby's father and he got her NOTHING. She spent most of her money on her son, which is as it should be. Still, it felt a bit awkward opening my two presents (the other from a coworker, that I saved to open Christmas day for this very reason), while everyone else opened everything I got them. It made me miss my own parents very much.</p><p></p><p>The drama of the day is that Youngest spent most of Christmas day in the ER, having a miscarriage. Don't think terribly of me when I say, this was actually a Christmas blessing ... when I found out two days before Christmas that she'd had a postiive pregnancy test, I was in full panic mode .. mixed with a bit of Scarlett Ohara-ish "I'll think about it tomorrow." I don't know what the outcome would have been if she hadn't lost the baby. I still shudder at the mere thought of it. She and my grandon are still living with me, waiting for her name to come up on the Section 8 voucher list, still on again off again with the abusive controlling father of the baby. She makes 7.20 an hour as a daycare teacher, with no GED or HS diploma. A second child? :: shudder :: again.</p><p></p><p>Anyway. All in all, we've had worse Christmas days.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CrazyinVA, post: 110582, member: 1157"] Thank you for this thread! It's made me feel less alone in my experiences, especially about not receiving gifts. My oldest and her husband gave me zilch, saying athat someone had stole his identity and their bank account was wiped out (the story keeps changing, I'm not sure what has happened). I gave them gas money to get to my place for dinner, and my son-in-law helped me clean the day before.. which actually was a wonderful gift. Youngest got me a wireless mouse for my laptop, which really was a thoughtful gift, it's just that she spent gobs of money on her baby's father and he got her NOTHING. She spent most of her money on her son, which is as it should be. Still, it felt a bit awkward opening my two presents (the other from a coworker, that I saved to open Christmas day for this very reason), while everyone else opened everything I got them. It made me miss my own parents very much. The drama of the day is that Youngest spent most of Christmas day in the ER, having a miscarriage. Don't think terribly of me when I say, this was actually a Christmas blessing ... when I found out two days before Christmas that she'd had a postiive pregnancy test, I was in full panic mode .. mixed with a bit of Scarlett Ohara-ish "I'll think about it tomorrow." I don't know what the outcome would have been if she hadn't lost the baby. I still shudder at the mere thought of it. She and my grandon are still living with me, waiting for her name to come up on the Section 8 voucher list, still on again off again with the abusive controlling father of the baby. She makes 7.20 an hour as a daycare teacher, with no GED or HS diploma. A second child? :: shudder :: again. Anyway. All in all, we've had worse Christmas days. [/QUOTE]
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