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Why must she ruin every holiday? Warning...long, long, vent.
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<blockquote data-quote="hexemaus2" data-source="post: 397389" data-attributes="member: 4560"><p>OMG PatriotsGirl...yours sounds like mine! That was what started the whole blow up the Christmas Day she left. I took the kids to Helen & stayed in a cabin for the weekend of Christmas the year before...it was going to be the last Christmas all my kids were still home...so we made a HUGE deal out of it. I spent more on Christmas that year than I did on my car. I could have taken us ALL on a cruise for 2 weeks for what I spent. So the next year, I told the kids we would have a much more modest holiday. There would be no huge mound of presents under the tree, expensive trips, etc. I wanted a simple, understated, enjoyable, traditional family Christmas.</p><p> </p><p>Each of the kids got two presents from me. (Plus all the presents from family.) One of the presents I got difficult child 1 was a small, inexpensive camera that would take short videos and post them directly onto Facebook for her. I thought it would be a great idea for the baby's first year. She had said she wanted a camera. Naturally, since she lost her iPod less than a month after the previous Christmas, destroyed the expensive video camera her grandparents bought her for her birthday, and in general couldn't take care of anything, I didn't buy a real expensive anything for her. She threw a fit that she didn't get anything but junk for Christmas. I mean threw a real, shallow, materialistic, entitlement-drenched hissy fit. It shocked the daylights out of me that she would be so openly ungrateful and materialistic like that. Grumble about getting a cheap camera rather than a top quality one, maybe...but to actually go off the deep end over it? Throw a fit like we never bought her anything worth a darn in her whole life? That caught me off guard...until a few hours later when I realized it was just an excuse to start a family fight & feel "justified" for leaving.</p><p> </p><p>Now she boo-hoos that we don't even remember her birthday. Nobody loves me. I never get anything for Christmas. Boo-hoo. Boo-hoo. </p><p> </p><p>I haven't gotten a Christmas present in nearly six years since the grown ups in our family decided to start doing kids-only Christmases. (With 3 kids + spouses, 7 grandkids, and 4 great grands, my parents would go broke trying to shop for everyone!) Does anyone see me boo-hooing about it? No. Christmas is for kids anyway, darn it! She's not a kid anymore. My oldest daughter doesn't get Christmas presents either, now that she's an adult with her own family. She doesn't have a problem with it 'cause it means little Lex gets more for Christmas. But difficult child 1 and her entitlement issues...ugh.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hexemaus2, post: 397389, member: 4560"] OMG PatriotsGirl...yours sounds like mine! That was what started the whole blow up the Christmas Day she left. I took the kids to Helen & stayed in a cabin for the weekend of Christmas the year before...it was going to be the last Christmas all my kids were still home...so we made a HUGE deal out of it. I spent more on Christmas that year than I did on my car. I could have taken us ALL on a cruise for 2 weeks for what I spent. So the next year, I told the kids we would have a much more modest holiday. There would be no huge mound of presents under the tree, expensive trips, etc. I wanted a simple, understated, enjoyable, traditional family Christmas. Each of the kids got two presents from me. (Plus all the presents from family.) One of the presents I got difficult child 1 was a small, inexpensive camera that would take short videos and post them directly onto Facebook for her. I thought it would be a great idea for the baby's first year. She had said she wanted a camera. Naturally, since she lost her iPod less than a month after the previous Christmas, destroyed the expensive video camera her grandparents bought her for her birthday, and in general couldn't take care of anything, I didn't buy a real expensive anything for her. She threw a fit that she didn't get anything but junk for Christmas. I mean threw a real, shallow, materialistic, entitlement-drenched hissy fit. It shocked the daylights out of me that she would be so openly ungrateful and materialistic like that. Grumble about getting a cheap camera rather than a top quality one, maybe...but to actually go off the deep end over it? Throw a fit like we never bought her anything worth a darn in her whole life? That caught me off guard...until a few hours later when I realized it was just an excuse to start a family fight & feel "justified" for leaving. Now she boo-hoos that we don't even remember her birthday. Nobody loves me. I never get anything for Christmas. Boo-hoo. Boo-hoo. I haven't gotten a Christmas present in nearly six years since the grown ups in our family decided to start doing kids-only Christmases. (With 3 kids + spouses, 7 grandkids, and 4 great grands, my parents would go broke trying to shop for everyone!) Does anyone see me boo-hooing about it? No. Christmas is for kids anyway, darn it! She's not a kid anymore. My oldest daughter doesn't get Christmas presents either, now that she's an adult with her own family. She doesn't have a problem with it 'cause it means little Lex gets more for Christmas. But difficult child 1 and her entitlement issues...ugh. [/QUOTE]
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