Ok first world problem.
This is really bugging me and I think I am being unreasonable but I can't help it!
Anyway. I made my DCs' Christmas stockings this year, a bad knit job, but I'm proud of them as I can't make anything much. Anyway, yesterday, MIL says "oh I found my kids' old stockings! So I'm going to fill them up for your children on Christmas Day. You can hang them at the end of their beds in the morning" blah blah blah.
Immediately I replied "oh thank you" because I was surprised and I am basically a people pleaser and didn't want to say no.
She then said it would bring so much joy to her and her mother (their great granny) to do that together, that they've already started buying the gifts.
Then I told her that I'd already knitted the kids' stockings because I really don't want her to take over. She replied "oh well, these are heirlooms!"
Am I being mean that I don't want her to do their stockings? That she had her chance to do it when her kids were little and that it's my turn now?
She does a lot for us, and tries really hard, and utterly dotes on my DC. Am I just being totally selfish and should I let her do this?
I know. Total first world problems. I wonder if I should just feel lucky that she wants to be so involved?!? But I just feel a bit annoyed that she's trying to take over.
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To be annoyed that mother-in-law is doing my kids' Christmas stocking?
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Nickname1980 · 19/11/2016 21:52
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